The eplek (Doroun), called a battle-fan or war fan, is a shield weapon once used by elite members of the EnSanni army in the later Imperial period.
Composition & Use
Epleks are composed of numerous strips of watered steel folded onto a central stem, which can unfurl to form a shield. The shield is mainly used to deflect blows or to protect the user from arrows. The best fans are all steel, with stops so each fan blade remains interlocked with no gaps. Inferior fans were bound with …
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The Great Prophet Therion (c.30 BME - ?62 ME), often simply called the Great Prophet, was the founder of the Mother Church and nation state of Ororr.
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The Faithless Vulture, subtitled “A comedy of tragic ends”, is an opera written by the last Ensanni Emperor, Ollilontan. It is his longest and most controversial work, a thinly veiled parody of the rise of Therion, the Great Prophet of the Therist religion. To modern TheristHartheraTherionMETherist