Sparkles mates on Milan
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...he resolves to ask Milan whether overthrowing government counts as something the universe will squish you for.

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It probably does. The Imperium definitely qualifies as a very powerful thing.

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Well, he'll still ask. Maybe if he does it a bit at a time.

...how did it even get that powerful anyway.

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The glorious history of the Empire, that's how.

...it's just kind of been around for a really long time and had the upper hand over all its neighbours for most of that. Oh and there were gods involved at some point.

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Are there, like, other countries.

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Yes! Lots! Many of them are of the form 'a dragon lives here so the empire just sort of grew around it'. Some of the rest are too far away to conquer, or inhospitable enough for reasons of populace or geography that it wasn't worth the bother.

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Are they also terrible?

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Well the dragon ones sound pretty bad. And the mountainous minor kingdom of Laefair is ruled by a lich, which the author of this particular book seems to think is so obviously self-evidently terrible that he needn't go on to discuss any actual details.

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Other books on liches?

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Liches are high-level wizards who have used advanced arcane magic to preserve themselves beyond death. Most of them eventually end up as skeletons. They're, like, almost invariably evil, but there's no explanation of why that is.

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Evil as in creepy or evil as in eat babies? Because this place, he wouldn't be surprised if it was the former.

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Well they can't eat babies because they can't eat. But, you know, plenty of them murder and torture people and so on. Also they are indeed really creepy.

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Yeah okay, weird but this whole world is weird and he probably has other—

—he probably shouldn't be listing things to fix in his head, should he. He reads on.

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