Chapter VII: The Annual of the Weavers’ Reckoning

In conclusion, both Father East and the Mother Nation, for all their dominion and grand titles, were architects of the same deceitful design. One mastered the warm sea’s currents, the other the cold calculus of conquest. Each forged a kingdom not through creation, but through claiming—a ruthless prosperity built upon a single, brutal transaction: the appropriation of human souls and the severing of ancestral roots.

They grew rich on the yield of stolen territories and the silent interest paid in generations of bondage. Their legacies—those glittering crowns and towering citadels—were mortared with their hands and laid upon the bloodline of the crimson harvests and scattered beads, the countless lives swept up in their cruel tides.

Yet beneath this layered history ...