THE LEGEND OF ORWELL:

Orwell is the divine progenitor of the Sumerian people of Anarkand, a figure shrouded in mystery, myth, and reverence. To the Sumerians, he is the Deliverer, the one who guided their ancestors from the burning ashes of Earth to the fertile, untouched world of Anarkand thousands of years ago. His story, told through carved reliefs, sacred murals, and songs passed through countless generations, forms the foundation of Sumerian faith and identity.


According to legend, Orwell and a small band of his followers came to Earth in an age long before recorded time, descending from the heavens in a vessel of unimaginable brilliance. There, they found a young and chaotic world, humanity in its infancy, struggling in the mire of survival and ignorance. The Sumerians teach that Orwell took pity upon these fragile creatures. With patience and purpose, he and his followers built great cities, taught humankind the art of language, mathematics, and construction, and instilled in them a sense of wonder and knowledge. The stories say Orwell’s touch could bring life to barren ground, and his voice could command the elements themselves.


But the harmony did not last. The Earth was struck by a period of catastrophic upheaval in which the planet was wracked by fire, flood, and cosmic ruin. As the skies burned and the seas rose, Orwell received a divine command from the God of Earth, an entity whose name the Sumerians do not know, to construct a vessel of salvation, vast enough to bear his chosen across the stars to a new home. This ship, called the Ark of the covenant, was said to be forged of stone, metal, and living essence, a synthesis of creation beyond mortal comprehension.


When the Ark was complete, Orwell gathered his followers, those whom he had taught and uplifted, and they departed the dying Earth, leaving behind the ruins of the world they had once nurtured. As the Ark ascended, the heavens rained destruction upon the planet, erasing nearly all trace of their works. The Sumerians of Anarkand believe this was not just a departure, but an act of divine preservation.


They believed that Orwell saved the seed of civilisation itself, ensuring humanity’s survival upon the world of Anarkand.


The Sumerian depictions of Orwell are haunting and majestic. He is shown as a being of flesh, bone, and stone, a symbol of the merging of mortal and divine creation. His most striking feature is his single great eye, a vast and glowing orb of violet light, said to see across space, time, and truth. He wears a long black robe, tattered at the hem yet unchanging through millennia, and in one hand he often holds a small crystalline sphere believed to represent Earth itself.


The final chapter of the legend tells that, after the Sumerians established New Sumeria upon Anarkand, Orwell departed once more. Some say he returned to Earth to search for survivors, others that he went to commune with the gods themselves. The Sumerians wait still, generation after generation, watching the skies for signs of his return - a great purple light said to herald Orwell’s coming.


They believe that when he returns, Orwell will lead them into a Second Exodus, uniting the lost tribes of the stars and restoring the forgotten bond between Earth and Anarkand. To this day, temples dedicated to Orwell are adorned with a single glowing violet gem, placed at the centre of the shrine to symbolise his eternal gaze. The priests of New Sumeria whisper that he is not dead, nor lost, but simply travelling the long path home.


THE CITIES OF SUMERIA:

From the legend of Orwell grew not only temples, but institutions. Not only faith, but infrastructure. The Sumerians never separated the sacred from the scientific. To them, mathematics is devotion with sharper edges. And so four vast cities came to define the nation.


KORA:

Kora is Sumeria’s science wing, though the phrase feels too small for what it truly is. Founded during the early consolidation of New Sumeria, Kora began as a cluster of observatories and research sanctuaries dedicated to deciphering the mechanics of the Ark of the Covenant. Ancient reliefs were measured, translated, reverse engineered.


Over centuries, Kora evolved into a sprawling metropolis of laboratories, Red Hex resonance studies, atmospheric modelling towers, and quantum computation vaults. Its skyline glows at night not with neon advertisements, but with containment fields and testing chambers.


Here, the Sumerians pursue propulsion systems that bend gravity like woven cloth. They attempt to decode hypothetical energy signatures described in sacred murals. They analyse violet light phenomena in the upper atmosphere, just in case.


Kora’s scientists are often ordained in the Temple of Anark before receiving academic credentials. Research proposals begin with equations and end with invocations. It is a city where peer review can feel like a liturgy. To outsiders, it appears obsessive. To Sumerians, it is preparation.


SUMER:

Sumer is the capital, but it does not sprawl outward, it rises in concentric rings, each tier dedicated to observation. The S.O.N ( The Sumerian Orbital Network ) is a constellation of satellites maintained and upgraded continuously. The network sweeps the heavens for anomalous signals. Radio bursts. Gravitational ripples. Patterns in cosmic radiation. Anything that might resemble a call.


The Research Bastion of Sumer is the largest signal analysis centre on Anarkand. Entire districts are devoted to parsing noise from meaning. Generations of signal linguists have lived and died attempting to identify what they call “Orwellian signatures.”


The Temple of Anark is in full support of the program and helps fund this work, but they do not do so blindly, but strategically for their own unknown gains.


Every year, on the Night of Violet Ascension, the city dims its artificial lights. Millions gather on terraces and rooftops to stare upward in silence, waiting for the sky to answer.


It never has.


But they keep listening.


PERUJA:

Peruja is an industrial colossus, a city of aerospace spines and fabrication cathedrals. Vast drydock towers dominate its horizon. Ship hulls under construction hang suspended like metallic leviathans. This is where Sumeria’s aircraft, orbital craft, and interplanetary prototypes are born.


The largest employer in Peruja is Qon-Terra, a corporation whose influence rivals that of minor governments. Qon-Terra specializes in advanced propulsion systems and adaptive hull materials designed to withstand extreme atmospheric entry and Red Hex turbulence.


Peruja’s workers are revered almost as much as Orwellian Whisperers ( equivalent to Earth's priests. ) The ability to construct vehicles capable of breaching sky is considered sacred craft. Apprentices often begin their training with a ceremonial reading of the Ark’s legend before ever touching alloy.

The people of Peruja believe that when Orwell returns, he will not find them unprepared. They intend to meet him halfway.


ERYTH VAAL:

The fourth largest city, newer than the others yet steeped in symbolic weight, is Eryth Vaal. Built around what Sumerians claim is a fragment of the Ark itself, a stone-metal composite relic unearthed in early excavation, the city serves as both archive and theological crucible. The fragment rests within a colossal chamber called the Ember Vault. It radiates a faint thermal anomaly and resists full material classification. Scientists debate its origins. Whisperers call it proof.


Eryth Vaal houses the Grand Archive of Pre-Exodus Memory, where every recovered inscription, oral history, and astronomical anomaly is recorded and cross referenced. It is here that philosophical debates rage fiercest. Was Orwell divine, extra-terrestrial, or something stranger? Was the Earth catastrophe natural, cosmic, or orchestrated?


Unlike other cities, Eryth Vaal's skyline is lined with vertical braziers that burn violet fuel compounds each evening, symbolic beacons meant to signal the cosmos.