This being a serious (ahem) magazine, before we deal with the subject,
a minor introduction is due, with a reminder on the past.
On The Worlds there are no wars of faith for the last fifteen centuries,
the idea has irreversibly departed into the past, and breaking the rules
on the institution of faith has become a taboo just like, may well be, incest.
Everyone knows the rules, they have become a part of the culture long ago,
and nobody even thinks about them.
From time to time, once in a odd year, it doesn't hurt to remind. New worlds
pop up, where these rules are forgotten, bent or even amplified. Let us
be reminded now, therefore, because here comes Ajthat, a new world which
has reinvented [things] which we thought were lost in the mist of centuries
past: the unreliable border between the faithe and philosophy.
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And here we get to Ajthat, which fits and doesn't fit into this. Ajthat is
not a belief in the true sense of the word - there's no god(s), no dogma.
Harami are a lack of belief, rather
than one, since they always turn their dogmae inside out, peeling them off
like skins.
Such a profile of an emissary has led to the gathering, in the league's ministry
of out-worldly deeds (or other interpretations of the LMOD acronym in various
languages), of a very diversely coloured bunch. Experts were needed for anything
that may be necessary, which meant for everything.