Fiction:Duchy of Amrita

"In a forever-life to live and remember, it matters little what change we bring. Instead of reason, race or gender, thus rather by beauty we judge what we see. And thus our goal being to observe in this quiet, to music compose and great knowledge bring, it is us who have forever to remember and live."

- The Amritan Peoples

The Great Duchy of Amrita, sometimes called the Amritan Kingdom, is a prominent nation of the Artrus Territories' rim-bound Taara Supercluster. The Duchy has a population composed only of native Amritans, the long-lived race of the cluster's bright deeps.

Named after the race's homeworld of planet Ararita, it is governed by the Amritans' Duchess and her family. The Kingdom has stood in Taara for thousands of years, always remaining stoutly independent. Its inhabitants, a poetic people, are deemed one of the more beautiful races of Artrus and the wider multiverse-and one of the last ones left. The Duchy's Amritans have constructed a peaceful and almost idyllic string of planets, left to themselves even as its multiverse was taken over by the arriving waves of Ravenrii and the Empire of the Core. Its stars were spared during the Unification Wars, so that even today Ararita's skies look unto a constellation of shining colonies. The Duchy holds over 9,000 planets in the cluster, spread over more than 5,000 systems.