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conversations.value: Safehold: In the 24th century, the Terran Federation—Earth and its colonies—discovers the ruins of a nearby alien civilization, the victim of an enemy named the Gbaba.\nThe inevitable confrontation arrives 10 years later.\nThe Federation Navy is well prepared for battle, but it is outnumbered and outgunned.\nA Terran fleet takes several enemy systems but is quickly overwhelmed when the vast Gbaba reserve arrives.\nOne by one, each colony world is annihilated.\nA hopeless defense forestalls the end for several decades.\nEmergency colonies are started on faraway worlds to save the species, but all are wiped out.\nOne last fleet escapes Earth via trickery.\nA terraforming team led by Pei Shan-Wei arrives first on a new world ahead of the fleet carrying 8 million colonists.\nThey name it Safehold.\nBecause signs of technology led the Gbaba to past emergency colonies, the mission on Safehold restricts all industrialization.\nExcepting Shan-Wei\'s team and her trusted staff, Administrator Eric Langhorne erases the memory of every colonist.\nYet Langhorne follows his own plan: the colonists awaken programmed to believe they are the first humans, newly created by divine will.\nThey worship Langhorne as the leader of God\'s "Archangels", charged with guiding a permanent pretechnical society.\nShan-Wei tries to defy this plan, but is labeled a traitor and killed, along with most of her followers, at their Alexandria settlement by a hidden orbital weapon.\nShan-Wei\'s side retaliates, killing Langhorne and most of his allies, sparking the "War Against the Fallen" among the survivors.\nLanghorne\'s "Church of God Awaiting" eventually prevails and sets up a militantly technophobic global theocracy, which deifies and worships Langhorne and demonizes Shan-Wei.\nCenturies pass before Shan-Wei\'s backup plan comes into being.\nDuring the terraforming process, Shan-Wei hid an android, with the personality and memories of Nimue Alban, a Terran Federation Navy tactical officer, deep within a secret mountain base.\n"Nimue\'s Cave" is stocked with an AI military computer and a room full of technology.\nWhen Nimue awakens, she accepts a mission to destroy the Church and uplift humanity.\nNimue vows not to repeat the mistakes of the "Archangels", who used technology to perform "divine" acts.\nAs medieval Safehold is likely to taboo a female with great influence, Nimue alters her android body into a male form, becoming Merlin Athrawes.\nMerlin selects the island Kingdom of Charis as the source for his uplifting "virus", where he will introduce concepts that force the rest of Safehold to compete.\nMerlin earns the trust of the ruling Ahrmahk Dynasty and inspires several new "inventions" by Charis\' military, science and economic leaders.\nCharis\' powerful industries change the world by adopting tools like Arabic numerals, the abacus, the astrolabe, the cotton gin and spinning jenny, among others.\nIn secret, Merlin teaches the Charisians how to replace their war galleys with a revolutionary fleet of ships of the line.\nThe lightning pace of innovation, while not directly heretical, causes longstanding Temple suspicions about Charis to boil over.\nThe Church eventually leagues every naval power on Safehold against Charis.\nMerlin\'s space-age information net allows the new-model Royal Charisian Navy to annihilate one half of the enemy force in a surprise attack, but King Haarahld is killed when his diversionary fleet is forced into battle outnumbered before the new-model fleet can intervene.\nKing Cayleb buries his father and becomes the first Safeholdian monarch in open rebellion against the Temple.\nMaikel Staynair becomes the first schismatic archbishop in Safehold\'s history and leader of a rebel "Church of Charis".\nGroups of "Temple Loyalists" resist the new order, some violently.\nMerlin barely saves Staynair\'s life from assassins.\nArsonists burn down the Royal College, though Merlin rescues its most important scientist.\nCharisian warships enjoy uncontested control of the seas as Charisian privateers shut down unfriendly trade.\nThe Group of Four retaliate by closing all ports and impounding docked merchant ships.\nAn Inquisition-led massacre ensues in Ferayd, Kingdom of Delferahk.\nLater on, a Charisian fleet razes Ferayd\'s waterfront to settle the score.\nStaynair takes Merlin to the secret Brethren of Saint Zherneau.\nSafehold "Adam" Jeremiah Knowles left the memory of humanity\'s true past to the order\'s most trusted.\nAware for some time that Merlin is superhuman, King Cayleb is allowed to join this "Inner Circle".\nMerlin makes instant global communication among its members possible.\nCayleb marries Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm, creating the Empire of Charis.\nPrince Nahrmahn of Emerald capitulates and becomes imperial spymaster.\nTo take the war to the Temple, Charis plans to conquer every realm in its maritime region before invading the mainland.\nCayleb assembles his forces and embarks for the first target, Corisande.\nIn Ferayd, Kingdom of Delferahk, the Imperial Charisian Navy proves that the Inquisition murdered innocents.\nCharis hangs the priests responsible, an unprecedented action.\nEmperor Cayleb gets a warm welcome in Chisholm during a stop to rally forces and supplies.\nHe continues on to Zebediah, a League of Corisande vassal state.\nThere, he warily accepts the fealty of its governor, who is known for treachery.\nThe elite Imperial Marines secure a crushing victory in Corisande, but the talented enemy commander retreats to a strategic redoubt.\nWith Merlin\'s guidance, Charis finds a way around it and forces his surrender.\nVictory seems inevitable, but the Inquisition assassinates Prince Hektor and Cayleb is blamed.\nThe Charisians prepare for a difficult occupation.\nHektor\'s children are smuggled to Delferahk.\nMerlin fails to detect a plot on Empress Sharleyan back in Charis.\nHis spy drones alert him to the assassins at the last moment, forcing him to unleash his full abilities to fly back and wipe them out.\nEven so, he nearly fails.\nThis forces him to reveal his "impossible" presence to Sharleyan.\nShe and her lone surviving guard accept the truth and join the Inner Circle.\nIn Zion, Grand Inquisitor Zaspahr Clyntahn learns that the Temple\'s military buildup is obsolete.\nHe performs a minor public penance to control the outrage over the Ferayd massacre.\nClyntahn is visited by a fearful member of a secret faction of his political opponents, The Circle, who tells the Inquisition everything.\nClyntahn nearly has enough support to declare Holy War, so he bides his time.\nOccupied Corisande is restless after Hektor\'s murder.\nSeveral Temple Loyalists work to win the hearts of the people.\nCayleb vows to avoid repression, but Merlin monitors the resistance.\nSharleyan is pregnant and Merlin takes her to "Nimue\'s Cave" for prenatal care.\nMerlin reveals he injected her and several others with nanotech; they will never again be sick and will quickly recover from non-fatal injury.\nIn Corisande, a popular reformist priest denounces the Temple\'s corruption, helping to quell the resistance.\nFrustrated Temple Loyalists abduct and torture him to death.\nMerlin cannot save him, but enables the killers to be caught and executed.\nArchbishop Staynair makes a visit to Corisande and does much to encourage ecumenism across the Empire of Charis.\nMerlin breaks up a vast conspiracy that includes Temple Loyalist prelates, Corisandian nobles and the Grand Duke of Zebediah.\nAll are attainted for treason.\nIn Zion, Clyntahn wins support for Holy War and begins a great purge of reformists from the Temple.\nMerlin adopts the guise of "Ahbraim Zhevons" of Silkiah to help Madam Ahnzhelyk Fonda get as many to safety as possible.\nEven so, more than 2,000 people are brutally tortured and murdered by the Inquisition.\nClyntahn becomes the dominant member of the Group of Four.\nThe Earl of Thirsk, the Dohlaran admiral who Cayleb defeated in Off Armageddon Reef, rebuilds his fleet from what he learned.\nThirsk wins the first Temple Loyalist naval victory, forcing Admiral Gwylym Manthyr\'s fleet near Dohlar to surrender.\nZion orders its own rebuilt fleet to join with the rebuilt fleet of the Desnairian Empire and attack Charis.\nA decoy force of Charisian merchant ships trick the Desnairian Empire\'s fleet into remaining in port.\nAn emergency force of Charisian ships forever ends the Navy of God\'s threat to Charis in a daring night attack, at great cost.\nHigh Admiral Lock Island, Inner Circle member and beloved cousin to Cayleb, is killed in the battle.\nMerlin experiments with steam technology.\nHis tests prove that Langhorne\'s orbital weapon will not automatically target basic industrialization.\nCharis continues to advance; by this time it is innovating largely without Merlin\'s help.\nFather Paityr Wylsynn is inducted into the Inner Circle.\nHe reveals that "Archangel Schueler" trusted his ancient ancestors with a promise that the Archangels will return in 1,000 years (30 years in the future at this time).\nMerlin prepares contingency plans.\nEmpress Sharleyan presides at treason trials in the League of Corisande.\nShe orders the execution of nearly all defendants but shows mercy when justified.\nA Temple Loyalist tries to assassinate her in court.\nHe fails only because of high-tech clothing provided by Merlin.\nSharleyan\'s actions bring the empire\'s territories closer together.\nGrand Inquisitor Clyntahn reacts by unleashing Operation Rakurai: Lone operatives commit devastating terror bombings in Charisian lands, killing Prince Nahrmahn, several other important imperial officials, and many innocents.\nEarl Thirsk is forced to turn over Admiral Manthyr and his men to the Inquisition.\nThe prisoners are conveyed to Zion, where most die at the hands of Clyntahn\'s torturers.\nBack in Charis, Emperor Cayleb retaliates by ordering the summary execution of captured Inquisition agents.\nIn Delferahk, Earl Coris and the children of the late Prince Hektor escape Inquisition custody with Merlin\'s help.\nLieutenant Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk, Duke of Darcos, and his men meet up with the fugitives after defeating their pursuers.\nIn Siddarmark, Clyntahn deploys his "Sword of Schueler", a coup stoked by Temple Loyalist propaganda.\nA pogrom against Siddar City\'s Charisian Quarter kills thousands, but the mob is stopped by Aivah Pahrsahn, aka Madam Ahnzhelyk of Zion.\nSecretly trained and equipped militia in her service save Lord Protector Greyghor Stohnar.\nYet the coup does great damage to the republic\'s resources.\nA terrible winter sets in as the Temple\'s vast Army of God prepares to march, leaving the future in doubt.\nGrand Inquisitor Clyntahn is master of the Church, but its foundations are cracking.\nCivil war rages in Siddarmark amid a terrible winter.\nTreasurer General Rhobair Duchairn must deal with the Temple\'s greatly depreciated tithes; rich Charis and Siddarmark no longer contribute any revenue, and Charis has brought economic havoc to all Temple Loyalist realms.\nThe Army of God marches on Siddarmark, as Charis races to get its own military to the field with Emperor Cayleb in command.\nThe surviving royal family of Corisande travel home with Archbishop Staynair, where Princess Irys falls in love with her rescuer Duke Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk.\nOver time, Charis integrates Corisande as a constituent kingdom of its empire with Irys\' brother Daivyn on the throne.\nIrys is betrothed to Hektor to seal the deal.\nEmpress Sharleyan\'s leadership further unifies the people of Charis, Chisholm, Corisande, Emerald and recently absorbed Tarot under a rapidly industrializing imperial state.\nMerlin "resurrects" Prince Nahrmahn in Owl\'s virtual world, though just as Merlin is uncertain that he is truly a reborn version of Nimue Alban, Nahrmahn has doubts about his existence.\nA meeting with his "widow" Ohlyvya enabled by Merlin makes him resolve to go on while she lives.\nAs time passes differently in the virtual world, Nahrmahn is able to spend a great deal of it with Owl, helping the AI become self-aware.\nThe two prove to be a mental asset to an increasingly weary Merlin.\nSiddarmark survives the winter and Cayleb\'s forces arrive.\nThe Temple\'s brutal tactics start to backfire as its forces lose popular support in the Republic.\nAdvanced Charisian weapons and tactics turn the tide on the battlefield, but the Temple and its allies still greatly outnumber the Reformists.\nCharis deploys new steam-powered ironclads, shutting down the Army of God\'s supply lines, but not in time to save a forward-deployed force of Imperial Marines who are surrounded and killed to a man.\nYet, amid the tragedy, success in the war becomes possible.\nThe Temple struggles to adapt to Charisian economic warfare, but the Group of Four determine to use their overwhelming numbers to try to win out before a sustained offense becomes impossible to support.\nDuke Eastshare of the Imperial Charisian Army weathers the Army of God\'s assault.\nThe situation appears more dire for the Earl of Hanth in the south, but incompetent Temple Loyalist commanders play into his hands.\nWith the help of Merlin and his various guises providing key information, the Reformists gain the upper hand throughout Siddarmark.\nPrincess Irys\' wedding in Corisande is interrupted by a suicide bomber in Clyntahn\'s service.\nHer new husband Duke Hektor is severely wounded; Merlin barely manages to save his life.\nThis need to be in several places at once places an incredible strain on the seijin, but Nahrmahn and Owl figure out how to construct a new cybernetic avatar like Merlin.\n"Nimue Chwaerieau" awakens as Merlin did some years before.\nShe becomes the first female member of the Imperial Guard, eroding gender barriers throughout the empire by example.\nThe desperate Group of Four authorize a broad adoption of Charisian innovations and tactics, unwittingly playing into Merlin\'s ultimate goal to uplift all of Safehold.\nThe cost is high; every Charisian victory prompts brutal pogroms against nearby settlements to weed out "heretics".\nEnraged, Merlin slips behind enemy lines under the guise of "Dialydd Mab" (Welsh for "Avenging Son"), slaying many agents of the Inquisition.\nCharisian success causes divisions among the Temple Loyalist forces, allowing the Reformists to begin routing them in detail; one battle with the army of the Empire of Desnair causes 90 percent enemy casualties.\nThe Empire of Harchong\'s massive serf army becomes modernized and remains a grave threat, but Charisian commanders express confidence that total victory is within reach.\nMerlin learns of a secret monastic order that maintains the tomb and journal of Cody Cortazar, aka Seijin Kohdy.\nA Safeholdian legend formerly thought fictional, Kohdy fought for the Temple during the War Against the Fallen.\nHis residual memories of life during the last days of the Terran Federation caused him to seek answers from the "Archangels", who tried to erase him from history.\nMother Superior Nynian Rychtair—the savior of the Siddarmarkian state at the start of the "Jihad"—is admitted to the Inner Circle.\nCharis deploys technology equivalent to the late 19th/early 20th century.\nBolt-action rifles, grenades, massed artillery and corps-level tactics prove decisive against Temple forces.\nCharis shatters the starving, demoralized Army of God.\nEventually, the Reformists liberate nearly all of Siddarmark.\nThe Temple kills or deports Siddarmarkian "heretics" to date held in concentration camps.\nEfforts by Merlin (as "Dialydd Mab") rescue many, but the offensive cannot continue while they are cared for.\nAlthough the Kingdom of Dohlar is defeated on land, its navy under Admiral Thirsk remains a threat.\nThe loss in battle of HMS Dreadnought, a state-of-the-art oceangoing ironclad, and delays in the introduction of the King Haarahld class of battleship set back the plan to regain total control of the seas.\nCharisian prisoners from Dreadnought are rescued from Gwylym Manthyr\'s fate by a daring nighttime raid, but Dreadnought is captured almost intact for study by the enemy.\nGrand Inquisitor Clyntahn blames Thirsk for losing the prisoners and plans to have Thirsk killed as soon as his naval leadership is no longer needed.\nThe Inquisition uncovers a plan to smuggle the admiral\'s family to safety.\nOne of Thirsk\'s aides diverts suspicion, posing as a Charisian agent.\nHe slays several Inquisitors and nonlethally shoots Thirsk before killing himself to protect the truth.\nEven so, Clyntahn compels Thirsk\'s family to go to Zion.\nMerlin and Nimue rescue them from a Navy of God ship, destroying it and all evidence of their survival.\nLater, Merlin visits a mournful and withdrawn Thirsk in secret.\nMerlin informs Admiral Thirsk of his family\'s survival in Dohlar, and offers him the "freedom" to uphold or undermine the Church\'s goals.\nThirsk remains loyal to Dohlar and continues to lead its efforts to resist Reformist forces.\nGeneral Hanth launches a new offensive against the Royal Dohlaran Army and, using combined-arms tactics enabled by squad-level infantry tactics and massive artillery barrages, proceeds to dig the RDA out of entrenched defenses that had been thought impregnable.\nAt the same time, Charis\' new armored warships, led by the first of the new King Haarahld class of battleships, establish total Charisian control of the sea and render all enemy shore fortifications obsolete.\nAfter several months of protracted fighting on land and sea, Admiral Thirsk makes his move, seizing control of his government with the help of reform-minded and war-weary cohorts in the Dohlaran military and clergy, leading to the kingdom\'s withdrawal from the Jihad.\nIn the north, the Harchongese Might Host of God and the Archangels is outmaneuvered by the use of Charisian zeppelins to spot long-range artillery.\nReformist armies converge and seize the initiative against the last organized army loyal to the Temple.\nSimultaneously, frustration against the Inquisition for years of butchery and corruption boils over as rebel mobs rally behind Vicar Rhobair Duchairn.\nClyntahn flees the Temple, but is intercepted by Merlin and Nimue.\nLater, Clyntahn is presented incontrovertible proof of the lies that the Church is founded on, and goes to the gallows a broken man.\nWith the Jihad over at last, Duchairn becomes the new Grand Vicar and promulgates reform, but the Temple fractures into several national branches including the Church of Charis.\nThe Inner Circle decide that for the sake of peace, Safehold cannot yet confront the truth of its past.\nCharis cements permanent ties with Siddarmark and begins a rapprochement with Dohlar.\nMerlin and Nimue, aware that their mission is far from over as the immortal guides of humanity, look toward a brighter future.
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conversations.value: Safehold: In the 24th century, the Terran Federation—Earth and its colonies—discovers the ruins of a nearby alien civilization, the victim of an enemy named the Gbaba.\nThe inevitable confrontation arrives 10 years later.\nThe Federation Navy is well prepared for battle, but it is outnumbered and outgunned.\nA Terran fleet takes several enemy systems but is quickly overwhelmed when the vast Gbaba reserve arrives.\nOne by one, each colony world is annihilated.\nA hopeless defense forestalls the end for several decades.\nEmergency colonies are started on faraway worlds to save the species, but all are wiped out.\nOne last fleet escapes Earth via trickery.\nA terraforming team led by Pei Shan-Wei arrives first on a new world ahead of the fleet carrying 8 million colonists.\nThey name it Safehold.\nBecause signs of technology led the Gbaba to past emergency colonies, the mission on Safehold restricts all industrialization.\nExcepting Shan-Wei\'s team and her trusted staff, Administrator Eric Langhorne erases the memory of every colonist.\nYet Langhorne follows his own plan: the colonists awaken programmed to believe they are the first humans, newly created by divine will.\nThey worship Langhorne as the leader of God\'s "Archangels", charged with guiding a permanent pretechnical society.\nShan-Wei tries to defy this plan, but is labeled a traitor and killed, along with most of her followers, at their Alexandria settlement by a hidden orbital weapon.\nShan-Wei\'s side retaliates, killing Langhorne and most of his allies, sparking the "War Against the Fallen" among the survivors.\nLanghorne\'s "Church of God Awaiting" eventually prevails and sets up a militantly technophobic global theocracy, which deifies and worships Langhorne and demonizes Shan-Wei.\nCenturies pass before Shan-Wei\'s backup plan comes into being.\nDuring the terraforming process, Shan-Wei hid an android, with the personality and memories of Nimue Alban, a Terran Federation Navy tactical officer, deep within a secret mountain base.\n"Nimue\'s Cave" is stocked with an AI military computer and a room full of technology.\nWhen Nimue awakens, she accepts a mission to destroy the Church and uplift humanity.\nNimue vows not to repeat the mistakes of the "Archangels", who used technology to perform "divine" acts.\nAs medieval Safehold is likely to taboo a female with great influence, Nimue alters her android body into a male form, becoming Merlin Athrawes.\nMerlin selects the island Kingdom of Charis as the source for his uplifting "virus", where he will introduce concepts that force the rest of Safehold to compete.\nMerlin earns the trust of the ruling Ahrmahk Dynasty and inspires several new "inventions" by Charis\' military, science and economic leaders.\nCharis\' powerful industries change the world by adopting tools like Arabic numerals, the abacus, the astrolabe, the cotton gin and spinning jenny, among others.\nIn secret, Merlin teaches the Charisians how to replace their war galleys with a revolutionary fleet of ships of the line.\nThe lightning pace of innovation, while not directly heretical, causes longstanding Temple suspicions about Charis to boil over.\nThe Church eventually leagues every naval power on Safehold against Charis.\nMerlin\'s space-age information net allows the new-model Royal Charisian Navy to annihilate one half of the enemy force in a surprise attack, but King Haarahld is killed when his diversionary fleet is forced into battle outnumbered before the new-model fleet can intervene.\nKing Cayleb buries his father and becomes the first Safeholdian monarch in open rebellion against the Temple.\nMaikel Staynair becomes the first schismatic archbishop in Safehold\'s history and leader of a rebel "Church of Charis".\nGroups of "Temple Loyalists" resist the new order, some violently.\nMerlin barely saves Staynair\'s life from assassins.\nArsonists burn down the Royal College, though Merlin rescues its most important scientist.\nCharisian warships enjoy uncontested control of the seas as Charisian privateers shut down unfriendly trade.\nThe Group of Four retaliate by closing all ports and impounding docked merchant ships.\nAn Inquisition-led massacre ensues in Ferayd, Kingdom of Delferahk.\nLater on, a Charisian fleet razes Ferayd\'s waterfront to settle the score.\nStaynair takes Merlin to the secret Brethren of Saint Zherneau.\nSafehold "Adam" Jeremiah Knowles left the memory of humanity\'s true past to the order\'s most trusted.\nAware for some time that Merlin is superhuman, King Cayleb is allowed to join this "Inner Circle".\nMerlin makes instant global communication among its members possible.\nCayleb marries Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm, creating the Empire of Charis.\nPrince Nahrmahn of Emerald capitulates and becomes imperial spymaster.\nTo take the war to the Temple, Charis plans to conquer every realm in its maritime region before invading the mainland.\nCayleb assembles his forces and embarks for the first target, Corisande.\nIn Ferayd, Kingdom of Delferahk, the Imperial Charisian Navy proves that the Inquisition murdered innocents.\nCharis hangs the priests responsible, an unprecedented action.\nEmperor Cayleb gets a warm welcome in Chisholm during a stop to rally forces and supplies.\nHe continues on to Zebediah, a League of Corisande vassal state.\nThere, he warily accepts the fealty of its governor, who is known for treachery.\nThe elite Imperial Marines secure a crushing victory in Corisande, but the talented enemy commander retreats to a strategic redoubt.\nWith Merlin\'s guidance, Charis finds a way around it and forces his surrender.\nVictory seems inevitable, but the Inquisition assassinates Prince Hektor and Cayleb is blamed.\nThe Charisians prepare for a difficult occupation.\nHektor\'s children are smuggled to Delferahk.\nMerlin fails to detect a plot on Empress Sharleyan back in Charis.\nHis spy drones alert him to the assassins at the last moment, forcing him to unleash his full abilities to fly back and wipe them out.\nEven so, he nearly fails.\nThis forces him to reveal his "impossible" presence to Sharleyan.\nShe and her lone surviving guard accept the truth and join the Inner Circle.\nIn Zion, Grand Inquisitor Zaspahr Clyntahn learns that the Temple\'s military buildup is obsolete.\nHe performs a minor public penance to control the outrage over the Ferayd massacre.\nClyntahn is visited by a fearful member of a secret faction of his political opponents, The Circle, who tells the Inquisition everything.\nClyntahn nearly has enough support to declare Holy War, so he bides his time.\nOccupied Corisande is restless after Hektor\'s murder.\nSeveral Temple Loyalists work to win the hearts of the people.\nCayleb vows to avoid repression, but Merlin monitors the resistance.\nSharleyan is pregnant and Merlin takes her to "Nimue\'s Cave" for prenatal care.\nMerlin reveals he injected her and several others with nanotech; they will never again be sick and will quickly recover from non-fatal injury.\nIn Corisande, a popular reformist priest denounces the Temple\'s corruption, helping to quell the resistance.\nFrustrated Temple Loyalists abduct and torture him to death.\nMerlin cannot save him, but enables the killers to be caught and executed.\nArchbishop Staynair makes a visit to Corisande and does much to encourage ecumenism across the Empire of Charis.\nMerlin breaks up a vast conspiracy that includes Temple Loyalist prelates, Corisandian nobles and the Grand Duke of Zebediah.\nAll are attainted for treason.\nIn Zion, Clyntahn wins support for Holy War and begins a great purge of reformists from the Temple.\nMerlin adopts the guise of "Ahbraim Zhevons" of Silkiah to help Madam Ahnzhelyk Fonda get as many to safety as possible.\nEven so, more than 2,000 people are brutally tortured and murdered by the Inquisition.\nClyntahn becomes the dominant member of the Group of Four.\nThe Earl of Thirsk, the Dohlaran admiral who Cayleb defeated in Off Armageddon Reef, rebuilds his fleet from what he learned.\nThirsk wins the first Temple Loyalist naval victory, forcing Admiral Gwylym Manthyr\'s fleet near Dohlar to surrender.\nZion orders its own rebuilt fleet to join with the rebuilt fleet of the Desnairian Empire and attack Charis.\nA decoy force of Charisian merchant ships trick the Desnairian Empire\'s fleet into remaining in port.\nAn emergency force of Charisian ships forever ends the Navy of God\'s threat to Charis in a daring night attack, at great cost.\nHigh Admiral Lock Island, Inner Circle member and beloved cousin to Cayleb, is killed in the battle.\nMerlin experiments with steam technology.\nHis tests prove that Langhorne\'s orbital weapon will not automatically target basic industrialization.\nCharis continues to advance; by this time it is innovating largely without Merlin\'s help.\nFather Paityr Wylsynn is inducted into the Inner Circle.\nHe reveals that "Archangel Schueler" trusted his ancient ancestors with a promise that the Archangels will return in 1,000 years (30 years in the future at this time).\nMerlin prepares contingency plans.\nEmpress Sharleyan presides at treason trials in the League of Corisande.\nShe orders the execution of nearly all defendants but shows mercy when justified.\nA Temple Loyalist tries to assassinate her in court.\nHe fails only because of high-tech clothing provided by Merlin.\nSharleyan\'s actions bring the empire\'s territories closer together.\nGrand Inquisitor Clyntahn reacts by unleashing Operation Rakurai: Lone operatives commit devastating terror bombings in Charisian lands, killing Prince Nahrmahn, several other important imperial officials, and many innocents.\nEarl Thirsk is forced to turn over Admiral Manthyr and his men to the Inquisition.\nThe prisoners are conveyed to Zion, where most die at the hands of Clyntahn\'s torturers.\nBack in Charis, Emperor Cayleb retaliates by ordering the summary execution of captured Inquisition agents.\nIn Delferahk, Earl Coris and the children of the late Prince Hektor escape Inquisition custody with Merlin\'s help.\nLieutenant Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk, Duke of Darcos, and his men meet up with the fugitives after defeating their pursuers.\nIn Siddarmark, Clyntahn deploys his "Sword of Schueler", a coup stoked by Temple Loyalist propaganda.\nA pogrom against Siddar City\'s Charisian Quarter kills thousands, but the mob is stopped by Aivah Pahrsahn, aka Madam Ahnzhelyk of Zion.\nSecretly trained and equipped militia in her service save Lord Protector Greyghor Stohnar.\nYet the coup does great damage to the republic\'s resources.\nA terrible winter sets in as the Temple\'s vast Army of God prepares to march, leaving the future in doubt.\nGrand Inquisitor Clyntahn is master of the Church, but its foundations are cracking.\nCivil war rages in Siddarmark amid a terrible winter.\nTreasurer General Rhobair Duchairn must deal with the Temple\'s greatly depreciated tithes; rich Charis and Siddarmark no longer contribute any revenue, and Charis has brought economic havoc to all Temple Loyalist realms.\nThe Army of God marches on Siddarmark, as Charis races to get its own military to the field with Emperor Cayleb in command.\nThe surviving royal family of Corisande travel home with Archbishop Staynair, where Princess Irys falls in love with her rescuer Duke Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk.\nOver time, Charis integrates Corisande as a constituent kingdom of its empire with Irys\' brother Daivyn on the throne.\nIrys is betrothed to Hektor to seal the deal.\nEmpress Sharleyan\'s leadership further unifies the people of Charis, Chisholm, Corisande, Emerald and recently absorbed Tarot under a rapidly industrializing imperial state.\nMerlin "resurrects" Prince Nahrmahn in Owl\'s virtual world, though just as Merlin is uncertain that he is truly a reborn version of Nimue Alban, Nahrmahn has doubts about his existence.\nA meeting with his "widow" Ohlyvya enabled by Merlin makes him resolve to go on while she lives.\nAs time passes differently in the virtual world, Nahrmahn is able to spend a great deal of it with Owl, helping the AI become self-aware.\nThe two prove to be a mental asset to an increasingly weary Merlin.\nSiddarmark survives the winter and Cayleb\'s forces arrive.\nThe Temple\'s brutal tactics start to backfire as its forces lose popular support in the Republic.\nAdvanced Charisian weapons and tactics turn the tide on the battlefield, but the Temple and its allies still greatly outnumber the Reformists.\nCharis deploys new steam-powered ironclads, shutting down the Army of God\'s supply lines, but not in time to save a forward-deployed force of Imperial Marines who are surrounded and killed to a man.\nYet, amid the tragedy, success in the war becomes possible.\nThe Temple struggles to adapt to Charisian economic warfare, but the Group of Four determine to use their overwhelming numbers to try to win out before a sustained offense becomes impossible to support.\nDuke Eastshare of the Imperial Charisian Army weathers the Army of God\'s assault.\nThe situation appears more dire for the Earl of Hanth in the south, but incompetent Temple Loyalist commanders play into his hands.\nWith the help of Merlin and his various guises providing key information, the Reformists gain the upper hand throughout Siddarmark.\nPrincess Irys\' wedding in Corisande is interrupted by a suicide bomber in Clyntahn\'s service.\nHer new husband Duke Hektor is severely wounded; Merlin barely manages to save his life.\nThis need to be in several places at once places an incredible strain on the seijin, but Nahrmahn and Owl figure out how to construct a new cybernetic avatar like Merlin.\n"Nimue Chwaerieau" awakens as Merlin did some years before.\nShe becomes the first female member of the Imperial Guard, eroding gender barriers throughout the empire by example.\nThe desperate Group of Four authorize a broad adoption of Charisian innovations and tactics, unwittingly playing into Merlin\'s ultimate goal to uplift all of Safehold.\nThe cost is high; every Charisian victory prompts brutal pogroms against nearby settlements to weed out "heretics".\nEnraged, Merlin slips behind enemy lines under the guise of "Dialydd Mab" (Welsh for "Avenging Son"), slaying many agents of the Inquisition.\nCharisian success causes divisions among the Temple Loyalist forces, allowing the Reformists to begin routing them in detail; one battle with the army of the Empire of Desnair causes 90 percent enemy casualties.\nThe Empire of Harchong\'s massive serf army becomes modernized and remains a grave threat, but Charisian commanders express confidence that total victory is within reach.\nMerlin learns of a secret monastic order that maintains the tomb and journal of Cody Cortazar, aka Seijin Kohdy.\nA Safeholdian legend formerly thought fictional, Kohdy fought for the Temple during the War Against the Fallen.\nHis residual memories of life during the last days of the Terran Federation caused him to seek answers from the "Archangels", who tried to erase him from history.\nMother Superior Nynian Rychtair—the savior of the Siddarmarkian state at the start of the "Jihad"—is admitted to the Inner Circle.\nCharis deploys technology equivalent to the late 19th/early 20th century.\nBolt-action rifles, grenades, massed artillery and corps-level tactics prove decisive against Temple forces.\nCharis shatters the starving, demoralized Army of God.\nEventually, the Reformists liberate nearly all of Siddarmark.\nThe Temple kills or deports Siddarmarkian "heretics" to date held in concentration camps.\nEfforts by Merlin (as "Dialydd Mab") rescue many, but the offensive cannot continue while they are cared for.\nAlthough the Kingdom of Dohlar is defeated on land, its navy under Admiral Thirsk remains a threat.\nThe loss in battle of HMS Dreadnought, a state-of-the-art oceangoing ironclad, and delays in the introduction of the King Haarahld class of battleship set back the plan to regain total control of the seas.\nCharisian prisoners from Dreadnought are rescued from Gwylym Manthyr\'s fate by a daring nighttime raid, but Dreadnought is captured almost intact for study by the enemy.\nGrand Inquisitor Clyntahn blames Thirsk for losing the prisoners and plans to have Thirsk killed as soon as his naval leadership is no longer needed.\nThe Inquisition uncovers a plan to smuggle the admiral\'s family to safety.\nOne of Thirsk\'s aides diverts suspicion, posing as a Charisian agent.\nHe slays several Inquisitors and nonlethally shoots Thirsk before killing himself to protect the truth.\nEven so, Clyntahn compels Thirsk\'s family to go to Zion.\nMerlin and Nimue rescue them from a Navy of God ship, destroying it and all evidence of their survival.\nLater, Merlin visits a mournful and withdrawn Thirsk in secret.\nMerlin informs Admiral Thirsk of his family\'s survival in Dohlar, and offers him the "freedom" to uphold or undermine the Church\'s goals.\nThirsk remains loyal to Dohlar and continues to lead its efforts to resist Reformist forces.\nGeneral Hanth launches a new offensive against the Royal Dohlaran Army and, using combined-arms tactics enabled by squad-level infantry tactics and massive artillery barrages, proceeds to dig the RDA out of entrenched defenses that had been thought impregnable.\nAt the same time, Charis\' new armored warships, led by the first of the new King Haarahld class of battleships, establish total Charisian control of the sea and render all enemy shore fortifications obsolete.\nAfter several months of protracted fighting on land and sea, Admiral Thirsk makes his move, seizing control of his government with the help of reform-minded and war-weary cohorts in the Dohlaran military and clergy, leading to the kingdom\'s withdrawal from the Jihad.\nIn the north, the Harchongese Might Host of God and the Archangels is outmaneuvered by the use of Charisian zeppelins to spot long-range artillery.\nReformist armies converge and seize the initiative against the last organized army loyal to the Temple.\nSimultaneously, frustration against the Inquisition for years of butchery and corruption boils over as rebel mobs rally behind Vicar Rhobair Duchairn.\nClyntahn flees the Temple, but is intercepted by Merlin and Nimue.\nLater, Clyntahn is presented incontrovertible proof of the lies that the Church is founded on, and goes to the gallows a broken man.\nWith the Jihad over at last, Duchairn becomes the new Grand Vicar and promulgates reform, but the Temple fractures into several national branches including the Church of Charis.\nThe Inner Circle decide that for the sake of peace, Safehold cannot yet confront the truth of its past.\nCharis cements permanent ties with Siddarmark and begins a rapprochement with Dohlar.