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Revision as of 10:52, 6 August 2023
The Founding Mothers of Kerlile were the ten women who created the Kerlian state, and formed the first Council of Kerlile. Each woman ruled over a specific region of Kerlile between 1924 and 1934, and then sat upon the inaugural Council of Kerlile to establish centralised rule in the Matriarchy from 1934 onwards. Only female descendants of these Founders are permitted to sit on the Council of Kerlile. The title Daughter of the Council is given to women who are descendants of the Founders through an unbroken female-only line.
Initial Meeting
The Founding Mothers initially met at the International Women's Congress, first held in 1893. At the 1913 IWC, Edith Hart proposed as a thought experiment the creation of a state ruled entirely by women. This became a regular discussion both at meetings of the IWC and via postal correspondence between the women who would become the Founding Mothers and several others. After the North Fleuran Succession Crisis, 1923-24, Hart - one of two primary claimants to the Fleuran throne - proposed that they attempted the experiment in reality; taking over North Fleura and renaming it to Kerlile, after a mythical temple of the Goddess of Secadualism.
List
| Name | Date of Birth | Birth Nation | Notes |
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| Nancy Arnott |  Laeral
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| Yijun Chiu | Shen | ||
| Phoebe Georgiou |  Shuell
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| Wilma Greenwood | |||
| Camila Letitia Hale | |||
| Edith Hart | North Fleura | ||
| Sunita Patel |  Andhrapur
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| Marilène Pierre |  Kvask
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| Margaret Robinson |  Zongongia
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| Martina Viallamando |  Aeluria
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Legacy
The Founders are still regularly referenced in Kerlile, with formal role-call at the Council of Kerlile including a reference to each Councillor's Founder ancestor. Each current Councillor is either a granddaughter, great-granddaughter, or great-great-granddaughter of a Founder. Both proponents and opponents of Gynarchism cite the Founding Mothers in ideological debates, with gynarchists praising the founding of a matriarchal state and opponents pointing to the Founders Manifesto which states that female-only rule was designed to be a temporary state of affairs.