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The evidence presented was enough for the Council of the Tavari Language, the body charged with maintaining the Tavari language's grammar and vocabulary, to announce a definition and etymology for the word “Tavari,” which had long been considered an irregular word whose etymology was unknown. Sourcing both the Order of Banishment itself as well as copies of ancient Danvrean bureaucratic reports and modern context provided by Danvrean historians, the Council determined that the name “Tavari” came from the plural form of a noun “''tavar'',” meaning “exile,” borrowed from the Old Danvrean adjective ''tapar'', describing “someone who was cast out of society for reasons of ritual impurity.” While the conjugation of the word “Tavari” had always implied the existence of the word “''tavar'',” no such word had ever been recorded since written Tavari records began in the 10th century CE.

 

 

The Tavar caste had arisen from the War of Conquest that united the Danvreas under Emperor Ngawang I in 774 BCE, when the sheer number of dead bodies after the incredibly violent war (and the several plagues that followed it) made it effectively impossible for observant followers of the state religion, Chen Pa, to observe their cleanliness rituals regarding dead bodies. People who resorted to begging for money in exchange for handling the dead were considered to have committed an act so unclean that it rendered them and all their descendants impure for all time, meaning they could no longer be allowed within city walls. While these ''tapar'' people had been tolerated for nearly three hundred years, they were blamed for a resurgence of plagues across the country and exiled. The Danvreas has provided no records on what may have happened over the course of the presumably forced exile from the country.