Fiction:Tenet/Overview

Reliable intelligence on the Tenet Kingdom is limited in scope. All available information is drawn from prisoner interrogation and artifact analysis, and as such should always be considered suspect.

The Tenet Kingdom, in the simplest terms, is a theocratic absolute monarchy distinguished by a high degree of militarism and social stratification, as well as extensive use of paracausal technologies (thaumaturgy). It is populated by a multispecies hegemony: one founding race, the avorn, dominates a collection of client/slave races, of which at least five separate species have been identified. Three of these slave species are known to fulfill Criterion 4, and were likely groomed by the Prime Criterion specifically to be compliant Tenet slaves.

Tenet religious texts place its formation as roughly 3,000 standard years ago. Prime Criterion interference in the development of Avorn civilization, however, is believed to have begun several million years earlier.