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==Background==

Coscivian Emperors were originally living people. According to tradition, the first Emperor was Ĥ, who was anointed 19,600 years ago, reigned for 3,000 years, had five testicles, and was his own grandfather. [[Occidental civilization|Occidental]] so-called historians, always eager to slander the illustrious history of [[Coscivian civilisation]], claim that the first Emperor of probable historicity<sup>''dubious — [[Should have been|discuss]]''</sup> was [[Xosqern IV]], however this hypothesis has been called into serious question for its failure to explain how there were no Xosqerns I-III.

Coscivian Emperors were originally living people. According to tradition, the first Emperor was [[Ĥ]], who was anointed 19,600 years ago, reigned for 3,000 years, had five testicles, and was his own grandfather. [[Occidental civilization|Occidental]] so-called historians, always eager to slander the illustrious history of [[Coscivian civilisation]], claim that the first Emperor of probable historicity<sup>''dubious — [[Should have been|discuss]]''</sup> was [[Xosqern IV]], however this hypothesis has been called into serious question for its failure to explain how there were no Xosqerns I-III.

Over the long arc of Imperial Coscivian history, the legal and ritual concept of the ''imperium'' gradually became distinguished from the mortal person of the Emperor: State powers were exercised in the Emperor's name even during interregna, governors in remote provinces carried out official acts invoking the Emperor's authority that he couldn't possibly have signed off on, and so forth. In times when there was no undisputed Emperor and places where the Emperor wasn't personally available, there developed a custom of carrying out state rituals in the presence of a statue representing the Emperor. Originally, statues of past emperors were used, though over time there came to be a proliferation of generic Emperor statues meant to evoke the presence and majesty of an Emperor without being modelled on any individual. Human emperors continued to intermittently reign and rule, though their power was increasingly constrained by a growing body of constitutional customs and challenged by powerful bureaucrats and military leaders.

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 ==Background==
-Coscivian Emperors were originally living people. According to tradition, the first Emperor was Ĥ, who was anointed 19,600 years ago, reigned for 3,000 years, had five testicles, and was his own grandfather. [[Occidental civilization|Occidental]] so-called historians, always eager to slander the illustrious history of [[Coscivian civilisation]], claim that the first Emperor of probable historicity<sup>''dubious — [[Should have been|discuss]]''</sup> was [[Xosqern IV]], however this hypothesis has been called into serious question for its failure to explain how there were no Xosqerns I-III.
+Coscivian Emperors were originally living people. According to tradition, the first Emperor was [[Ĥ]], who was anointed 19,600 years ago, reigned for 3,000 years, had five testicles, and was his own grandfather. [[Occidental civilization|Occidental]] so-called historians, always eager to slander the illustrious history of [[Coscivian civilisation]], claim that the first Emperor of probable historicity<sup>''dubious — [[Should have been|discuss]]''</sup> was [[Xosqern IV]], however this hypothesis has been called into serious question for its failure to explain how there were no Xosqerns I-III.
 Over the long arc of Imperial Coscivian history, the legal and ritual concept of the ''imperium'' gradually became distinguished from the mortal person of the Emperor: State powers were exercised in the Emperor's name even during interregna, governors in remote provinces carried out official acts invoking the Emperor's authority that he couldn't possibly have signed off on, and so forth. In times when there was no undisputed Emperor and places where the Emperor wasn't personally available, there developed a custom of carrying out state rituals in the presence of a statue representing the Emperor. Originally, statues of past emperors were used, though over time there came to be a proliferation of generic Emperor statues meant to evoke the presence and majesty of an Emperor without being modelled on any individual. Human emperors continued to intermittently reign and rule, though their power was increasingly constrained by a growing body of constitutional customs and challenged by powerful bureaucrats and military leaders.

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