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The question of "How does this relate to the endemic and ritualistic interband violence that characterised pre-Emperor Kirav?" is mentioned as question to be explored in a companion volume. The companion volume in question was never published and is presumed {{wp|lost work|lost}}. | The question of "How does this relate to the endemic and ritualistic interband violence that characterised pre-Emperor Kirav?" is mentioned as question to be explored in a companion volume. The companion volume in question was never published and is presumed {{wp|lost work|lost}}. | ||
=== Age of Blood and Moral Degeneration === | |||
Sacrifice was reïntroduced to Kiravian society during the Age of Blood, likely in connexion with the heightened frequency of tribal warfare and a concomitant re-centring of ancestor worship. Sacrifices of captured warriors, of sterile women, and of a tribe's {{wp|Carthago delenda est|own children}}, and the associated distribution of sanguine {{wp|libations}} derived from this activity were believed to physically strengthen the tribe and spiritually strengthen the Ancestors, who would then be able to provide their living descendants with greater courage and acuity in combat and providential interventions, such as {{wp|omens}} warning of oncoming attacks by the enemy. Infanticide and uxoricide for other reasons also became extremely frequent. | |||
Blood sacrifice and the associated {{wp|vampirism}} were banned by the Emperors under the Four Precepts. Utilitarian analyses posit that this prohibition was made firstly to maintain peace within the Lawful Commonwealth by discouraging the Lawful tribes from kidnapping victims from neighbouring Lawful tribes, and secondly to stem strain on the Commonwealth's defencive obligation by tempering the Lawful tribes' appetite for opportunistic offencive warfare against Lawless tribes in search of captives for sacrifice. Orthodox deep historians are satisfied with the explanation that Emperor Ĥ thought vampirism was nasty. To Aktagardin, this prohibition and related ones imposed by the Emperors marked a reversal from the moral degeneration of the Age of Blood, and allowed Coscivian civilisation to emerge during the consequent Moral Foundations Age. | |||
=== Moral Foundations Age === | === Moral Foundations Age === | ||