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	<b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II ~~Naïlo~~]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt III The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt II The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."		<b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II Amastacia]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt III The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt II The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."

	Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Second Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to illness, created an Imperial succession crisis and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.		Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Second Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to illness, created an Imperial succession crisis and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.