The State of Midreach Lira is a neutral state and city in the Geban Empire, established during the Era of Early Stagnation as a haven untouched by wars, named for Ashan’Lira Siraieth—sister of Emperor Ashan’Vaer Kel’varenath—and serving as a center of art, ethics, and pre-doctrinal harmony.
Active from Early Stagnation to Modern Geba, it represented freedoms and endurance, fostering cultural preservation and ethical discourse amid imperial stagnation, with no formal military and reliance on unspoken mutuality for autonomy. Even during the Warlord Eras, factions left it alone—not by truce, but recognition that conflict ceased at its borders; shadows blended into families under long-term cover, warlords passed through without battle, and a quiet criminal underworld thrived beneath the surface without disturbing the rhythm. Physicians, architects, and composers created without monetization or provocation, making music as reverence for structure before genres like Abyssal Harmony were industrialized. Statues of old lines stood as witnesses, most prominent Ashan’Raeth Vareth—the prince who walked provinces without titles, authoring The Book of the Witness and The Account of the Two Becomings by observing Vessels in stillness, inspiring The Prince’s Directive through humble methodology. In Lira's Vaulted Chamber of Ancestral Recall, scholars gathered under his image to learn witnessing, where ideas formed without consumption.
Destroyed by the Church of the Infinite Maw in a symbolic attack during early Modern Geba—a pressure drop and pattern silence mapped by Scout-class Engineered for nine days—the ruins were not avenged, marking endurance without reformatting as the final resistance. Later reclaimed by the Church, the site was rebuilt as a major Maw relay hub, integrating its pre-doctrinal legacy into doctrines of adaptive evolution and unmaking.