Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition: Difference between revisions

The diocese of Rǣrajāṇai in the Near East has a somewhat special status, because it has most characteristics of ethnic dioceses but, due to its history, land rights for the native ethnicity do not apply in the whole territory. This is because the diocese was only formed in the Kaiṣamā era as a territory for settling down the ''Rǣrai'' (endonym ''ræ:ærnuk''), a population speaking a Fargulyn language, distantly related to [[Skyrdagor]], which had been itinerant in most of the Plain and the Near East for centuries<ref>Many Rǣrai had already drifted apart, better integrating with the rest of society and settling down in other areas. 79 of the officially recognized ethnicities indigenous to the Inquisition are sometimes grouped ethnographically as "Macro-Rǣrai" (''paṣrǣrai''), and when grouped together they are, after the Chlouvānem, the second-largest ethnicity in the Inquisition overall.</ref>. As the territory they were settled in was already populated, Rǣrai people were mostly assigned to newly built towns, including for example the current episcopal seat of the diocese, Reṣṇagærimarta. Rǣrai people are today the majority in the diocese's territory (71%), but most bordering areas have a majority of non-Rǣrai people, some of them having been settled there for a thousand years, and those areas lack land rights for Rǣrai. Similarly, Rǣrajāṇai diocese does not have separate Synods, unlike all ethnic dioceses (except Hūnakañjaiṭa).

There is, currently, a popular movement asking for the two protectorates of Tsila Island (pop. 184,220) and Lūmenāra Island (pop. 357,910, the most populous of the external territories) near 27ºN in northwestern Queáten to be united and annexed to the Inquisition as a new ethnic diocese. However, the low presence of Chlouvānem culture on the islands and their geographical distance from the Inquisition (the closest land is in the Putaitā Islands, about 1,900 km west) have so far prevented serious consideration of this idea.