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I came one day out of the chancellery of the Order [of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John] in a rage for the boasting and braggadocio in which they engaged. Flinging myself to the ground in the garden I prayed to Almighty God for a form of deliverance. Upon my prostrated form alighted an sparrow so dark and with feathers glossed that I thought it at first to be made of obsidian. I was so fraught with my anger that I sought to shake it away, but lo, it spoke: For I am a messenger of the Host Most High and He commands you to find your most pious men and seek from the Pope a new order, a righteous order without fanfare and pageantry. Seek to serve not to command and the Lord shall show you favor. | I came one day out of the chancellery of the Order [of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John] in a rage for the boasting and braggadocio in which they engaged. Flinging myself to the ground in the garden I prayed to Almighty God for a form of deliverance. Upon my prostrated form alighted an sparrow so dark and with feathers glossed that I thought it at first to be made of obsidian. I was so fraught with my anger that I sought to shake it away, but lo, it spoke: For I am a messenger of the Host Most High and He commands you to find your most pious men and seek from the Pope a new order, a righteous order without fanfare and pageantry. Seek to serve not to command and the Lord shall show you favor. | ||
The "obsidian sparrow" was later identified by ornithologists as a Lark bunting, however this was the furthest north in Levantia that a Lark bunting has ever been reported. They mostly live in central | The "obsidian sparrow" was later identified by ornithologists as a Lark bunting, however this was the furthest north in Levantia that a Lark bunting has ever been reported. They mostly live in central Faneria and Kuhlfros as well as northern Urcea. | ||
== Status as a Subject of International Law == | == Status as a Subject of International Law == | ||