Deucalion Amnesty

The **Deucalion Amnesty** was a programme to allow Terrans in Bujan to escape the growing violence in the colonies by defecting to rebel camps. It took place on the 31st of October, 1891 AT.

## How it worked

The King of Bujan refused to heed his people's calls to exterminate all Terrans as punishment for various crimes. Instead, he spent a few days researching about their behaviour and backgrounds, and was found pitying the Terrans. They were driven to commit such offenses because they were hurt, forced to survive in abusive societies. So they resorted to extreme methods, such as blocking and banning over trivial reasons, because they always felt threatened.

So he announced via radio and hologram an amnesty to allow Terrans to defect to his side. They were to contact a number to have people evacuate them. This led to hundreds of calls seeking entry into the rebel camps, fearing the growing violence that swept across Bujan and spies waiting to kill them. Normally, they would have refused out of an insistence to be respected; but the killings all around them drove them to fear, seeing no other haven than the mercy of the King.

Those who accepted the offers were brought by guards to the portals. They also brought as many people as they found to save them from death. The initiates were told that their online activity would also be checked, because some of the people they blocked were also waiting for them. This ensured that many users were able to win the trust of the Bujanski rebels by earning forgiveness and undoing their own crimes.

The brutality and sadism among the Terran armies - Serpentian, Qyuvian, Tyrskan, and Maizefolk alike - influenced the Bujanski rebels to consider if they could allow runaways and victims to be redeemed, rather than killed and hunted for sport.

### Treaty of Virimvon

See also: Ten misconceptions about Broken Plates

Among those defectors were hundreds of fans of a show called Broken Plates, popular among Terran colonials and natives alike. To prove that they were not a threat to the locals, but were willing to work together and reconcile with them, they were invited by those who forgave them to meet with the King. They conducted a peace treaty with the Bujanski monarchy, and swore allegiance to the rebellion. All of the fans became Free Norths, protected by the laws of the resulting independent state and forgiven of their sins: but they also reached out to help other innocents who were in danger of being killed by more outbreaks and purges.

This took place in the northeasterly town of Virimvon-na-Taeglovu, where the modern flag of Bujan was first raised. In honour of the meeting between the King and the fans, the town declared that all innocent and virtuous Terrans - free citizens, refugees, or undergoing penance - were protected by its inhabitants.

The day of the treaty was November 8, 1891.

## Trivia

* This amnesty was named after Deucalion (Δευκαλίων), a hero in Greek mythology who built a great ship to save his wife from a great flood. It was chosen by King Dostagir instead of "Noah" or "Noi" (Ной), which was seen as overused.
	+ Dostagir also wrote in his autobiography that he was also amused by the "eu" diphthong, which also existed in Bujanski as "æu" (ѣу). In the Bujanski language, Deucalion is written as "Dæukalion" (Дѣукаліон), not as "Djevkalion" (Девкалион).
	+ "Daeukalion" was popularised by Bujanski as "Taeuko" or "Taeukoro", mostly by those who supported integration of Terrans and penance and opponents of killings of Terrans. They also used floods to represent the massacres that broke out decades later that they fought against.
* October 31 is Reformation Day in Germany, which celebrates the day Martin Luther nailed a list of arguments on a cathedral's door, criticising corrupt practices from the papacy.
	+ The date also represents another meaning of "reformation", as in "someone choosing to become sorry for a crime".
	+ Halloween, another festival observed on the same day, became a symbol of resistance among the Bujanski rebels against Terran rule.
* November 8 is the Feast of the Archangels in Eastern Orthodox countries such as Ukraine.
* Dostagir was coronated by the rebels as their monarch on October 16. Some contemporary eyewitnesses noticed that it happened to coincide with the day of Lonhyn, a Terran soldier.
	+ Lonhyn was also known as "Longinus". He was supposedly amazed by miracles he witnessed at the death of one of his prisoners, that he sought to follow the prisoner's teachings. He was convinced that the prisoner was "the son of God".
	+ Lonhyn may had represented repentance, or blindness. The date chosen with his symbolism may had been done as a quiet tribute to the Terran members of the rebellion, whom Dostagir was trying to save from the violence all over the island.

## See also

* Great Boycott
* Penance
* Central Committee of the Restored Kingdom of Zvesta
* July 1892