The Enlightenment begins in Sheen

Within two months of arriving, the Brothers Jacob and Gregory, had managed to successfully start up biweekly meetings at an old warehouse in a nearby town. This warehouse, now commonly being referred to as the 'Sheenish House', had also recently been furbished with a slightly damaged printing press. As the politically aware sorts filtered into the warehouse and mingled amongst themselves, the two brothers stood and shouted above the hubbub 'Volunteers! We need volunteers to spread the news!'

From out of the gathered mass came sixteen men, all of whom appeared to be quite firmly middle class. 'All right, now that you are here, we need to make sure that these ideas do not stay local. Plattland is a good place, but there are not a lot of us here and the country is currently less than united... We need you to take these tracts and pamphlets-' He pulled out a bundle from his bag. 'and distribute them to places like Morthal, Wovthal, and along the western coast. I know this is a big ask, but we will get no where if we are only talking to people in such rural places.'

'Ah, I do have a cousin that works as a farrier near Morthal... He says he is always in need of help, so I could go there.' one of them volunteered. The rest shuffled about nervously though, not certain what to do with themselves. 'Come on men, if you do not want to do this, you do not have to. That said, we will stagnate if we stop here... We need to spread the ideas of the Illuminati to the rest of the country, no?' This seemed to jolt a few more. After they had come up with a few relatives they could talk to about getting jobs and moving, they started to take their bundles of materials, though half of the initial volunteers did back out. 'Now remember, we can not advertise directly in the newspapers. We will try sending you food and money to organise charity events if necessary, but for God's sake, stay below the notice of the censors.'

With that final warning, the men split up and dispersed into the meeting. Shortly after, it was called to order and the topics of the evening were explained. Primarily, the concept of Sheenish federalism and a government without an executive but instead made up of a council of equals. These ideas enamoured everyone that heard them and it soon became their new favourite idea as for how to run their little clubs.