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>And yet Julian and his companions chose democracy anyway. Refusing to grant absolute power even to a genius like Reinhard von Lohengramm, the kind seen only once every few centuries, a group of unremarkable individuals would feel their way forward through trial and error, searching for better ways to produce better outcomes. That was the Long March that Ahle Heinessen had chosen, and Yang Wen-li had inherited.
>Marshal Wolfgang Mittermeier stepped out into the provisional palace’s garden with Felix in his arms. The storm was over at last, but an unseasonal coolness still filled the summer air and froze the starlight. When dawn came, the kaiser’s death would be announced to the public and preparations for the state funeral would begin.
i thought it ended on a note that implied it's inevitable that democracy is going to rise again. reinhard is dead, a once in a few centuries great leader, which means the empire is now back on the path of slow decline, while a spark of democracy from yang's legend lives on the same way Heinessen's created the spark that lead to the FPA existing in the past.
i guess it also plays into the theme of history repeating.
>The legend ends, and history begins…