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The Chronicle of Akakor
"Red sap runs out of the trees, sap like blood." So spoke the messengers of the Allied Tribes
when they came to the Chosen Servants. "For the White Barbarians had also landed in the East,
with their ships, whose masts reach into the sky. They came with their weapons which rumble,
sending death’ from a distance and whose arrows cannot be seen. So they occupied the land."
This was the tale the messengers told. They waited with much impatience and begged for the
decision of the high council. They implored the Gods for help: "Do not abandon us," they
pleaded. "Give arms to our men so that we may drive the enemy out of the country, so that
light may return to the empire of the Chosen Servants." Thus spoke the messengers, the
suffering warriors, the desperate men of the Allied Tribes. And they awaited the sun, which
brightens the vault of the sky and the face of the earth. So they waited and brought to Akakor
the news of the White Barbarians’ arrival in the East.

Early in the thirteenth millennium, the war at the western frontier came to a temporary halt. The Spanish
had tired of the wasteful battles. They renounced the conquest of the eastern slopes of the Andes and gave
up the attack on Akakor. A wide no-man’s-land, guarded only by our scouts, was set up between their
newly established empire and the realm of the Ugha Mongulala. There was no further danger that our
capital might be discovered. But no sooner had the White Barbarians stopped their advance in the west of
the country than they began landing in the east as well and occupied the coastal region. They sailed up the
Great River until they came to the settlements of the Allied Tribes. Fighting broke out once again: A new
war between the White Barbarians and the Chosen People started.

But the Ugha Mongulala had learned from the extinction of the Incas. They avoided meeting the enemy in
open battle. Their warriors attacked the White Barbarians only from ambush. At the same time they
abandoned all cities and villages in this region. Our enemies found only deserted settlements on their raids.
They suffered from hunger and thirst. In the impenetrable forests they strayed in circles. Many of them fell
victim to our most terrible weapon, a poison, a secret handed down from our Former Masters. With these
new tactics my people succeeded in keeping the White Barbarians away from the center of the empire for a
long time. But then an unexpected event occurred. Many Allied Tribes renounced their allegiance to
Akakor. They betrayed the bequest of the Gods and began to worship the sign of the cross.

The Destruction of the Allied Tribes

The Tribe of Distorted Faces on the lower reaches of the Black River started the rebellion of the Allied
Tribes in the eastern provinces of the empire. This nation had been allied to the Ugha Mongulala since
Lhasa’s times. After the arrival of the White Barbarians, the tribe, numbering 80,000 heads, betrayed the
bequest of the Gods and declared war on Akakor. Within a

few months, war had spread over the whole empire. In the headwater region of the Great River, the Tribe of
the Glory that Grows revolted. Its warriors attacked the cities in the region of the temple complex of
Salazere and penetrated deep into the interior of the empire. The Tribe of Tapir Killers that had originally
regarded the White Barbarians with suspicion overran the fortresses of Mario, Samoa, and Kin. Only a few
Ugha Mongulala warriors succeeded in escaping the bloodbath. They fled into the inaccessible forest
regions on the lower reaches of the Great River. Over the course of centuries, their descendants intermarried
with savage tribes. They have only retained the white skin of the Chosen Servants as testimony to their
origin. They have lost the bequest of the Gods.

The heaviest losses were incurred during the fights in the southern regions of the empire. The Tribe of
Wanderers that had been allied to Akakor abandoned its old settlements. Murdering and looting, they passed
along the lower reaches of the Great River to the coast of the eastern ocean, as it is written in the chronicle:
This is the story of the desertion of the Tribe of Wanderers. When they heard the news of
bearded warriors, they were much surprised. Why not go there? Why not look at the strangers?
And they shouted: "Surely they bring large gifts, larger than those of the Chosen Servants."

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