Aiwa

The Aiwa are select servants of Exades. Unlike the teeming trillions of slaves or the Shai and other classes who experience some exerted pressure to fulfil their roles in Hiterian society, the Aiwa are those who do not require to have their wills bound to Exades. They are the very definition of true believers, loyal to a fault and exceedingly devoted to him personally beyond belief. Should the Hiterian Empire fall tomorrow, they would follow him to death and Ruin. 
For their fanatical loyalty, they are allowed free travel across all the Hiterian Empire, requiring no one's permission and no credentials, for all beings under Exades' wrathful gaze know an Aiwa when they encounter one. They maintain permanent residence on Throneworld when not fulfilling duties personally handed to them.
Chief of the Aiwa is Crowlester Owley; he is fanatically devoted to Hiterian principles and to Exades himself and a master of sorcerer's ways, calling even the most obscene A'yon to his command and bending lesser beings to his will. To him and his consorts are handed the most sensitive and duty-bound of assignments in maintaining the Empire.
== Role ==
If an Exarch ever fails in their duty, the Aiwa are sent to bring them to Throneworld where they are -- depending on the severity of their transgression --- disciplined or sacrificed and replaced. They lead the Stoltƶki in raids, ensure that the Ivory League's work and experiments are progressing according to Exades' will, instigate slave uprisings among the Ubat to cull the population, and whip the disparate cults of Exades across the Empire into estactic, frenetic worship that will lead to the conquest of new worlds, the enslavement and desolation of new populations, and the total defeat of the Empire's enemies.
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