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Originally written by FFX2000: History's great and all, but heck, a whole lot of it's boring.(although the history of Exile/Avernum wouldn't be, I'm sure, but the Empire, God thats like, horrible, especialy what they did, why the heck would anyone want any more horrible facts about how they treated people?)
Hmmm....but that's the point. Because there's no written history of Ermarian by Jeff/anyone else, how do we know what the Empire used to be like? Perhaps at one stage it was a golden kingdom of fluffy bunnies and abundant riches for all. Or perhaps it was always a despotic, explotative empire up to the time of Hawthorne (Prazac was a bit better, I think you'll agree). Without history we don't know.
And finally, remember: those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Edit: Also, as has been said on the American Conflict Avatars (or whatever it's called) board, empires and countries go through good times and bad times. I suspect that the Ermarian Empire would be the same.