1668902690415 Boston Church was the name of a program initiated by the UNBOA Discovery Service in December 1993, that operated until October 2007, when the program was shut down due to a general lack of interest and a growing skepticism as to its benefits. Although the work undertaken during Boston Church was not classified, the …
The Grant of Anseneti
Few Houradani documents pertaining to the history of the Old Country bear as much importance as the Grant of Anseneti, a decree issued by the sixth Emperor of Cairdion in the year 3299, by which the city of Iram was formally made a dependency of Cairdion, and its stewardship passed on to the elders of …
The Life of the Good King
Entry for the years 3470 – 3487 of Slave Rule, Consulate XXVIII: "The speaking things shall not suffer much longer the power of princes, though it yet casts a shadow across the world, and in time their tyranny will be forgotten. But even so, let us remember that there have also been among these called …
The Tale of the Winged Merchant
- Dedicated to that most tender of creatures, my Πότνια Θηρῶν When the world was young in times of yore, when camels still dwelt in Khabor, there lived in the land of Iphtobar a merchant of much renown. A great voyager, this merchant had sailed all the seas save one, and travelled through countless countries. …
The stars, they were not of God
In the years of the Khalif of the Messenger of Allah, the Amir al Mou'minin al-Wathiq Bi'llah, terrible wonders came to pass, hidden from the eyes of Men. One day the Amir al Mou'minin bade the wise of Islam come before him, and from his throne he spoke thus: “Of late I have dreamt unsettling …
An American Imradil
An old piece in remembrance of Lord Dunsany, 1878-1957
They Danced in Ithana
In vain do I search for the spires of Kaladroth and Nirand, for the golden fields of Aemroch.[1] My ears pine for the sound of bustling streets, the baying of animals, the din of the crowd, the calls to prayer echoing through the balmy evening. But here there are none. No sound but the wind, …
A Garden of Worlds
There was once a man of repute in Qephna whose name, they say, was Clioph, and he made a living by doing puppetry with shadows. Every day in a stuffy and fly infested back-room of a tea shop off the main square of Qephna, Clioph toiled at his rotting desk, cutting and sowing away at …
Scrinium Barbarorum – Organization and History of the Bureau
In the aftermath of the events of 1986, an international task force was formed, the fruit of which was TELETARCH I, which lasted two years. However, due to political complications, the bourgeois-sectarian troubles plaguing this expedition led to its demise. This was followed by a brief period of political hostility, but in the Spring of …
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Prolegomenon – Introducing the Bureau
Who would have known that in this age there were yet reaches of the earth left untrodden, with dust unperturbed, stones silent, and vistas most marvellous untouched by the gaze of Men? How ready were we to proclaim the eternity of our empire here, in the vastness of this world boundless and eternal, and to …
The Bureau of Barbarians 