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Welcome to the Encyclopedia Cordelia, entry V.L.3-14, origins of empire. D. years ago, but what many of us don't know is why it fell.

There are many different schools of thought on this, but they broadly fall into one of the

following three theories.

School of Thought, one.

The empire fell because Emperor Nog Romansky had an affair with an quote almost humanly beautiful

end quote bugbear and went to such extreme lengths to cover it up that the entire empire collapsed.

This is the leading school of thought and is the most supported by writings and political cartoons of the time which have survived to this day.

This school of thought is held to be true by calendar makers and is why we use the terms

B A and A. A. Before affair and after affair for our calendars. School of Thought, too. The second most popular theory is that Nogg Romansky was assassinated by his wife,

Ulvira Romansky, who had married into the family and had twice sought to divorce Nogg claiming he was quote a weak man and

foolish there wasn't a tree he didn't fear or a cloud he didn't accuse he was the 11th son of a weak emperor and had all the negative

traits we associate with 11th son personalities."

End quote. This theory is as difficult to prove as it is to disprove as

Ovira went missing the same day the empire collapsed. Some believe she was killed in the chaos of the fall, while others believe she simply walked out of the empire's back door and lived the rest of a days in anonymity.

There was for a time a... rest of a days in anonymity.

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