Four Powers

The "**Four Powers**" also existed as either several claimants of four civilisations across alternate Terras, or the four biggest influences in the cultures of the Terran Empire.

Later, the "**Four Powers**" were the four authorities that waged war on each other and the Bujanski natives during Wannaenid rule. A "Fifth Power" emerged in the form of the Salvationists, and some considered the Bujanski and Terran death gangs to also be the Sixth and Seventh Powers.

## "Four Powers" of the Terrans

"*I swear to my Gods, I am not a Terran, I will never be a Terran.*

*I renounce immaturity, failure, arrogance, and selfishness,*
*In favour of efficiency and rationalism.*
*I will be just and fair to all.*
*I will not enjoy any manner of pain or suffering.*
*I will hate the Terran, I will kill the Terran.*
*I will destroy the Terran inside myself.*
*I will be honourable.*

*May no Terran touch our holy shores.*

*May all poisons from Terran words drown the Terran.*
*May the Terran return to Hell, with his endless lies.*
*May the Terran find no forgiveness or mercy, until he pays for every wicked thing his people commit.*

*May the Sun and Moon hide their faces from the Terran, and may he be consigned to eternal darkness.*
*May no Gods or wights ever answer him except by tearing him in blood, as a piece of worthless paper.*

*Nasatyo Terrabhyas, Nasatyo Terrabhyas.* [May all the Terrans die.]"

- the *Nasatyo Terrabhyas* oath.

While the Terran invaders of the Sixteenth Age consisted of many cultures, four common cultures were identified by various survivors of the Third World War. The most common among those invaders was the "American" culture, which consisted of twenty-six or almost half of the armies who invaded Jerde.

### Four Powers in Bujanski folklore

In Bujan and later countries, the Four Powers prided by the bygone Terrans became into myths and legends, representing four archetypes of a dystopia: obsession, coercion, fanaticism, and suppression. The Four Powers also represented the worst aspects of humanity, as seen by the Jerdiskar, such as hypocrisy and deceit for the sake of domination and revenge, rather than actually helping society.

In the TV show "Bujan Fourfold", the island kingdom lost some of its provinces to either one of the Four Powers. Its arcs cover life in the occupied provinces of Bujan. For example, the first arc depicts a possible Zavtranian victory, where the western provinces of Bujan became Zavtrana Oblast of the Russian Empire.

### Terran Empire (Sixteenth Age)

The Terran Empire used the number four as one of its symbols. It was a federation of four autocracies bent on waging war against the rest of the Galaxy.

Imperial Terrans tended to impose their own cultures as part of their mission of revenge, forcing people to speak only in Terran languages. They also used people who stopped using any of their languages as an excuse for waging more wars.

### Later Terrans

The empires of the Great Game recruited thousands of Terrans, mostly from dystopian dimensions, as their footsoldiers and cannon fodder. They make up large amounts of warriors in the armies of the Thralondian, Tornarin, Wannaenid, and Baesorthar Empires.

Occasionally, Terran mercenaries were also sighted among the Marnosyns, Freyrgardians, Vozonids, and even the Zvestarids. The Zvestarids hated Terrans for their warlike attitude and their cruelty, but they recruited some Terran mercenaries to fight other Terran enemies. Some of their descendants later became members of the tyrannical Tyrskan aristocracy.

The most notable Terran mercenaries were the immortal Tyrskans of the Wannaenid Empire, mostly descendants of Russians from Earth 27 and some Americans from other dimensions. Like most Terrans, they were recruited from the worst of all societies, rather than more peaceful worlds. The other Terrans sent by the Wannaenid rulers to kill the natives were the Maeranoi, most often from the Church of Q. Because the Tyrskans were originally from Darros, the Bujanski compared the Terran oppressors to the Darroskei invaders of old.

In Bujanski society, what kind of people you obsessively hate, or certain harmless practices that instead make you angry, may be associated with any of the Four Powers. For example, hatred of light skin, hatred of darker skin, hatred of non-believers, and hatred of the colour pink. People who do such things may be punished for associating themselves with these four bygone enemies, anti-examples of Bujanski society.

## Four Powers of Bujan

During Wannaenid rule, the Four Powers were instead the four disputed authorities in the colony of Zavtrana, fighting each other for absolute control of Bujan. In practice, it was intended to reduce Bujan into a slaughterhouse and an arena where countless Terrans murdered each other for the Wannaenids' amusement.

The Four Powers were:

* Wannaenid colonial authorities.
* the Theocracy of Q over their Diocese of Balennaria.
* the Tyrskan monarchy of Zavtrana.
* the Salvationist Party collaborators.

### Other powers

Three other armies were considered as the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Powers, due to their prominence as militant factions.

* the Serpentians and their proposed communist state
* the Terran death gangs - including fascists and demon-worshippers
* the Bujanski death gangs

## Names in various languages

### Terran languages

* American English: Four Empires
* Russian: Четыре империи (Chetyrje Imperii)

### Jerdiskar languages

* Bujanski: Četrævelski (Four Empires)
* Ēosomê: Nom Džoltsekarau, Nomdžolkarau (Four Empires)

## Trivia

* Bujan being occupied by Russian and American Terrans was inspired by Russian militants in eastern Ukraine using their enclaves to justify the invasion of the country in 2022.
	+ The Tyrskan aristocracy of Bujan itself was also inspired by Russian nationalists, or various extremists who supported the invasion of Ukraine. They were meant to represent warlike behaviours and fanatical beliefs.
	+ Yet the Bujanski were originally inspired by Russian fairy tales. Later on, they were meant to be the opposite of the Tyrskans, in preferring coexistence and cooperation over supremacy and brutality.
* Two invasions in Jerdiskar history - Darros attempting to conquer Bujan, and Daizhou trying to annex Siangwaan - were based on ethnonationalist attitudes in Russia and China, which expected the diaspora to immediately obey Putin or Xi Jinping, and the invasion of eastern Ukraine to annex Russian speakers under Russian rule.
	+ Bujan and Siangwaan refusing to become like their "motherlands" were based on the author's refusal to betray his home, Malaysia, over his Chinese ethnicity.

## See also

* Terranisation, the degradation of a person to think like a Terran
* Denlotian trigger words, known as "Terran words"
* Bujanski taboos
* Four Powers (Rinnarverse)