As Archivist, one branch of the six councils the humans had elected, she could not advocate they start their civilization in anyone’s debt. Help from her neighboring empires was wanted and welcomed; handouts from them, however, were not. Of course, the gold she’d purchased the islands with had come from Alytheria’s immense reserves. Reparations for four hundred years of subjugation of every single human who’d lived and died in Duskmere under the demon king’s rule.
