The Political History of Xedoc
The founding of Xedoc was done by the Skink family rule and the city ran on a paternal line of successive leaders for many years. There was no need to formalize this until the Vipara returned, with newcomers in tow. The major shift happened after the running out of the gnomes from Xedox. The Skinks extended the walls and defences of Xedoc to encompass the villages built by the Viparas and the gnomes, and claimed the combined settlement as one city under their protection. To garner unity within the lizardfolk population over the gnomes they created to.titles of councilmembers for Vipara, and two lesser families. The council’s first order was a decree making all lizardfolk equal to each other, but also have a higher status than folks of other races in their now proclaimed Repitalian Republic. While the idea of a council was supposed to give the idea of equality, the Skinks used loans, marriages and long standing agreements between families to keep the lesser council members in line.
Public unrest and protest brought the fall of the council. Faced with protestors in numbers they couldn’t hope to withstand the Skinks parlayed and an agreement was made that all the people of Xedoc would vote for their government, that any and all would be welcome in the bogs, and that no group could hold de facto power over another. With this parley came a week of deliberations and talks which were recorded in writing for the coming generations. It set the stage for a new era of the bogs in which the people would rule.
The public deliberation on the governance of Xedoc continued for six years. At that time the group advocating for a communion government had the biggest support, followed by the council system, and a small faction of protectionists. The debates were widely attended but no strong consensus was emerging on how the people wanted to organize their society, as the factions honed their arguments and rebuttals week after week.
This stalemate was broken when the God of Enigmatic Decay was placed in power by Skink supporters and the one hundred years rule of the God began. The God’s rule was a dictatorship with clerical ministers appointed by the God tasked with the running of minuet details as the God’s true passion was their collection of knowledge and various experiments. The loose oversight allowed corruption to take a hold on the dealing of the city as favouritism and extortion ran rampant.