| abstract | - The City of the Red Wheelhouse (Sefenlander: Amarxou Retastopolis, "Redhouse Wheelcity") is the home of the Faith of the Mother Sphinx. It is a city within a city, White-Sphinx, sealed behind redstone walls. On its great walls in nearly every tongue known to mankind is the Lullaby, the most-famous prayer of the Faith of the Mother Sphinx: ♪ - Sleep sound sweet son; though the longmen are wild, you are my true child, for you are of gold, and bravery untold, and even though your enemies are of mud, and even though they mean to take your blood - from the darkest night, to one full of starlight, Mother is here, and there is nothing to fear - ♪The City of the Red Wheelhouse was finded 400 years after the arrival of the Old Kings in the Sefenlands. It is ruled by the Mother on Earth (also known as the Red Breastfeeder, MAYAMAYA, the High Red-Dress, Milk Mother, Blood Mother, the Gold Lady, etc.), a woman elected by priests and priestesses of the Faith of the Mother Sphinx. They judge which of them is the most "motherly." Which of them embodies sacrifice, kindness, wisdom, warmth, and care. This is the question they must ask themselves exactly every six years. Currently, the Mother on Earth is the Maiashp Warmosa Nujasa, an ethnic Oporish. She was Maiashp, a sort of high priestess, only eighteen of which exist. Ross Fourthwalk broke into the Red Wheelhouse 110 years ago, and killed the then-Mother on Earth, literally a pregnant woman. This began the 2nd Great War, which culminated in the dropping of the Hornman far bomb by Marcos Halfsmith into the New Tower of Conquest in Farbdak.
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