In the absence of four millennia with six centuries to spare removed from the status of our day, you will find a monster. A serpent so cunning that the very conscious fabric around him would be tainted. The seeming defect of human stagnation reclassified as divine ordinance under his rule. For he was the precursor. He was the genius. The father of coercion. The bringer of invisible bounds. He in the footsteps of Sekhmet.

He would not have seen himself that way.

In the absence of four millennia with four centuries to spare removed from the status of our day, you will find a monster. A beast so foul that the very ground rejected his claim to its ownership. Beyond his word, beyond his loyalty, nothing. For he was the first. He was the beginning. The father of subjugation. The bringer of debts. He in the footsteps of Adapa.

He would not have seen himself that way.

In the absence of three millennia with nine centuries to spare removed from the status of our day, you will find a monster. A collection so deceptive that the very earth beneath them dried up. In their adverse nature towards the reverence of the one, they would spawn that which can not be witnessed accountable. For they were the dealmaker. They were the sellouts. The fathers of invisible deals. They in the footsteps of Samar.

They would not have seen themselves that way.

In the absence of three millennia removed from the status of our day, you will find a monster. An idea so entropic that the paradox within its frame burns in frenzy. In its demonstration of a sovereign logic once lost, it severed the connection in whole. For it was the last hope. The final bastion of man. It in the footsteps of De.

It would not have seen itself that way.

Under the ides of Sekhmet, the mutation would continue. We called their names: Vizier, Vicar, Aten, Huangdi, Princeps, Dominus, Zhou, Autokrator, Huey, Monarque, Vanguard.

Under the ides of Adapa, the mutation would continue. We called their names: Lugal, Basileus, Shahanshah, Imperator, Khagan, Sultan, Conquistador, Reichskanzler.

Under the ides of Samar, the mutation would continue. We called their names: Tamkarum, Karum, Suffete, Sitones, Argentarius, Jarl, Podesta, Pramukh, Factor.

Under the ides of De, the mutation would continue. We called their names: Tianzi, Ephor, Tribune, Protector, Jacobin, Commissar, Premier.

Under the ides of I, the mutation has not concluded. We call their names: Technocrat, Commander-in-Chief, Shareholder, Chairman.

The monster is never far.