The Bazrahin have long practiced their own variant of Kriegball, one that plays out over generations, and the best tactics are often immortalized. The most famous play of the Intergalactic Hoax phase consisted of a text generated by a set of rules involving the epic saga of The Brenalde and his journey to slay Vile Vitreous, complex xenomathematical formulae, the diary of Meyin the Mad, and dodecahedrons for an element of randomness. This resulted in a great deal of debate in later years as to which lines belonged to what source. No personage ever filed a copyright for the authorship, so today the Ta’rot’rag is in the public domain.

Cerys Irolat brought news of the Prophecy to Vermailia, which turned to it as a hope against the Gar’tor’at Prophecy. Whether she knew of its origins and was playing a grand game herself or was a victim of mandibular trickery is still unknown. The twinned prophecies failed together, but remain a great historical, mathematical, and literary curiosity.

—Maie-Knoumane