The Brow of Eve
"The Woman that Tore Edenism in Two"
History
In the 10th century AE the city of Eden as well as the surrounding nation of T'cherah experienced a great boom of wealth and power. The city was growing and decided to celebrate and broadcast this success by erecting a grand statue of Eve. This event would soon prove that Eden was growing too big for its britches.
Their first mistake was building the statue in the first place. While the Book of Truths and Falsehoods certainly does not explicitly forbid carved images or statues, it is strongly opposed to idolitry and the image of Eve — who was already begining to be viewed as a goddess or superhuman figure in some places — would certainly give way to controversy.
The second mistake was to model the statue of of a real woman and to allow her to publically be known. Selma Alleah was the T'cheran woman who was chosen to become the face of Eve. The T'cheran features of her face were very un popular among non T'cheran Edenites — particularly among Aumanite groups. They felt that T'cherah was closing in on the Edenite identity and perscribing the Law a race. This is also forbidden in the Book of Morals and Practices .
As a result a group of Edenite nationalists defaced the statue one night taking its brow as a trophy. The vandals we soon arrested and imprisoned with the statue eventually being replaced with one that more so resembles a vague form of a woman occompanied by a snake. But, the damage had already been done and conflict was boiling.
The remnants of the statue can now be found in the Edenite Museum of Guildwellian History.
The statue was carved from a polished grey marble.
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