Editing Red Cliff Domain (section)

==Background==

===Moon reeds and moon boats===
In distant Darjiin, Bevelatia wears the Heron Mask for her goddess, SurEnslib, and guards her most precious secrets. It is she who must be courted when the Emperor wishes to have a new moonboat constructed. Worse to Dara Happan eyes, it is she who holds the Water Marriage Secret to enthrone the legitimate Emperor (see Imperial Lunar Handbook1 p.31). 

Among Dara Happans, it is the leagues of noble families that form alliances and act behind closed doors to decide the future of the Empire. Few of these leagues accept that the Darjiini, who have been conquered many times by Dara Happa and should remain subjugated, have this hold over the Emperor. To seek to break Darjiin, they have unravelled the moon reed secret and have enlisted a league of Dara Happan military familes, the Pure Sky Burnished Kite League, to act as the spear that will pierce the gut of Darjiin. 

General Theophilon Faius Gisto is known for his cunning and willingness to adopt unconventional strategies. Finding agents from among his own troops, he has spent almost a decade manouevring into position. Following the invasion of Heortland, news of the Third Ford Incident reached Raibanth. The plan was finally set in motion.

The General was to engineer a situation in which he would be seen as a liability to the Lunar Army and would be awarded a grant on the Zola Fel in distant Prax and so disappear. There he would grow the moon reed and build the first moon boat with the aid of a magician from the College of Magic, Bellabarisruk. Break the Darjiini monopoly. 

''News of his success is awaited in Raibanth...''

===Timeline===
*'''1602''' - Boldhome sacked by the Lunar Empire - Theophilon Faius Gisto is present in the Lunar forces.
*'''1610''' - Lunar conquest of Pavis.
*'''1615''' - Duke Raus is ceded a land grant on the Zola Fel.
*'''1618''' - Setting out from Corflu, Faius Gisto leads a series of raids into Heortland as a precursor to an invasion. He is held responsible for the Third Ford Incident.[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Red_Cliff_Domain:Anusiya_of_Urvairinus_Origine#The_Third_Ford_Incident] Almost simultaneously, activities of the subcult Urvairinus Origine are unearthed within his troops. The General retires from the army, taking up a land grant (the Red Cliffs Domain) on the Zola Fel. By the end of the year, the grant is settled, fortified and irrigation channels have been dug.
*'''1619''' - Lunar forces invade Heortland.  
*'''1619''' - Although the land on the Red Cliffs Domain is quickly being turned to agriculture, and alliances formed with an assortment of local groups, Faius Gisto succumbs to the chills and dies, to be succeeded by his daughter Beltis. Shortly afterwards, his wife and son quit the grant.
*'''1620''' - It is now Sea Season and the River of Cradles is in full flow.

===The Red Cliffs Domain grant===


*It is generally understood that it is Fazzur Wideread who was responsible for the recent allotment of land grants to the north and south of Duke Raus' grant. 
*Those in Faius Gisto's inner circle were made well aware, upon his arrival in the Red Cliffs Domain, that the documents in his possession awarded him land north and south of the North Bog but also an equal area extending down to the Great Bog. This land is under Raus' markers, although the Duke refused to show his own papers to the General and has continued to refuse to show these to Beltis. If appropriately irrigated, this land would make excellent rice beds, yet Raus has yet to alot the land to settlers.
*Following the General's untimely demise, ownership of the grant became an important issue. Beltis has not shown the documents awarding the grant to her father to anyone so the nature of the award is unknown, in particular whether it is to be inherited or to return the Governor of Pavis. If inherited, Dara Happan customs would pass the grant to the General's son, but the boy is barely a Dara Happan. Meanwhile, Lunar customs would pass the grant to his eldest daughter, Beltis, though some interpretations might grant one of his wives. By driving her stepmother and brother out, Beltis appears to have resolved the issue for the time being, but the rumours that Erinetha has been associating with Raus in Pavis have generated a lot of speculation and uncertainty.

*Currently the Polemarch is planning to lay claim to Raus' land and then place him in the city of Pavis as an asset. Once there Lok plans to steal Raus' et and make him look an ass....