The Crow's Deceit

[Tethras 278]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUlclgxgNAo

 

Printed pamphlets are spread throughout the various territories of Anthos, bearing the seal of the Grand Kingdom of Urguan.

 

The Crow’s Deceit

 

People of Anthos. As many moons have passed, we have come to see what darkness envelopes these lands we have grown to call our home. Yet here we remain, embroiled in a war, so harsh and bloody that the lives of dwarf, human, elf and orc alike are taken by the day. We have seen what putrid lies the Orenian government has sought to weed into the minds of those they oppress. Humanity’s war with the sons of Urguan is nothing more than a conquest of vengeance, hatred and above all, the desire to control. Though in the last week, Oren’s offence was halted, they continue to seek justification where they can find none. They see fit that it is our children, our families and our friends who must suffer and die for their actions. We whose blood must fill the vast soils of this land. Ask yourself this. Would you send your children to fight for such a cause?

 

Though the Orenian government is quick to place the blame upon the Grand King of Urguan, they conveniently forget that these ‘rogue Lords’ they speak of, not only intruded upon the Grand King’s coronation but also attempted to kidnap the High Princess of Malinor. Lords who to this day remain members of Oren’s government. Bandits, thieves and killers. Are these a people you wish to rule a Kingdom? Such an act was to tear apart what peace still remained, forcing the hand of the Grand Kingdom to act. This decision however would never have been taken without knowing of the oppression that many humans had faced from within the Carrion dynasty.

 

The Carrion scourge proudly justifies its actions but so easily forgets the wrongs their own kind have committed, thinking themselves a just and pure people. But, people of Anthos, let me remind you that the human Empire, if it had seen its goals true, would have one day seen all races enslaved beneath its reign of tyranny. At its height, the Holy Oren Empire controlled the elves, brutally annexing their race to the point of extinction, while leading a crusade upon the orcish deserts. Had the Grand Kingdom of Urguan not acted, many of those lands to this day, would remain under its occupation.

 

For all the humans continue to hide behind the dwarves’ apparent allegiance to Setherin, they fail to present any evidence to their claims, beyond rogue sightings in dwarven territories, a region that the Black Scourge has attacked for many years. People of Anthos, ask yourselves truly. Would the Sons of Urguan, a race who saw the destruction of the undead at the hands of Urir Ireheart fight by the side of evil? A race who despite single handedly holding back Ondnarch’s hordes to the south, continues to assist in pushing back the Scourge? For it is humanity, not we who now turns Yemekar’s creations upon one another. It is humanity who seeks to burn, destroy and conquer those who have done no wrong. Their intent is truly no different to the Black Scourge who they claim to despise so. They seek to spread false lies and deceit, rallying the races of Anthos to battle amongst one another, brother against brother. Is this the act of a nation who desires peace?

 

For it is the Crow’s Deceit that now leads us to such mindless violence. While he hides behind false claims of justice, he fails to see the facts of the past. The war with the orcs that plagued the early days in these lands did not begin by dwarven hands and it was never a war the Sons of Urguan sought to fight. On the Isles of Elysium, Vrograk’Gorkil, Rex of the Orcs knowingly and unprovokingly attacked a fortress under the protection of Legionnaire forces, slaughtering those within, dwarf, human and kharajyr alike. Through years of endless warfare, it was only the capture of the Ugluk Fort that achieved peace. A fort that was once used to imprison, capture and murder those who passed down the roads alongside the crossing, whether they were dwarves, orcs or elves.

 

Even as the war came to an end, the dwarves did not seek to avenge the deaths of those they had lost to the halls of Khaz’A’Dentrumm by laying ever more torment on the orcish survivors. Instead, they forgave their former enemies, even despite an invasion by their kind in Asulon that had for many years, led the dwarves to the brink of destruction. An invasion that humanity had wrongfully interfered in without ever declaring a state of warfare. King Heinrik has further chosen to overlook the very fact that his own kind fought alongside the dwarves, even going as far as to crusade into the orcish deserts. Does he then choose to forget that offers were made from Oren for human forces to assist in the capture of the Ugluk Fort? Yet in the name of honour, the dwarves chose to fight alone.

 

While the Orenian government makes claims of peace, they quite easily forget their annexation of the elven lands of Malinor, and their ‘holy’ occupation of the Orcish deserts to quell their ways, they deemed ‘uncivilised.’ Yet it was a dwarf who freed Malinor and Lenfarthing from its oppressors, granting them independence rather than conquest. For many years, the Grand Kingdom gave shelter to those who had sought to escape the tyranny of human rulers. The human occupation of the elves was halted by the Grand Kingdom, their Empire brought to an end. Yet what humanity fights for is no war of liberation but one of revenge and a bitter hatred for seeing their power falter. They once again forget that it was their own kin who willingly joined under the Grand Kingdom for protection from the wrath of their own kind. Ashamed by the past, they continue to deny the truths that lie before their eyes.

 

To the people Anthos, we say this. If you truly strive for peace and wish to fight back against evil, you will not defend this King, whose grudges against our kin run deep. If the Orenians truly had any honour, they would know to fight their own war. Yet as they cannot do so, they seek to impose their will upon the rest of Anthos, spewing lies upon lies of deceit and malice.

This King calls for the destruction of the Grand Kingdom, yet remains unknowing that his very ascension to power, and the crown he wears upon his head is there because the Grand King before us made it so. How, you may ask? The Carrions betrayed Oren. As their people suffered and died, they sought shelter in the arms of the Grand Kingdom. A shelter we granted them, not for the sake of our own but because the Kingdoms of Oren would destroy one another. Is that such an act of corruption? They so often forget that their independence was left to them willingly.

 

The Crow speaks of this war as if it was one of justice. Yet what is true is that this King, is not a just man, but no more than an ambitious fool, who wishes nothing but to assert himself as the King who destroyed the dwarves. As the King who took down the very Grand Kingdom which had stood before the Holy Oren Empire. People of Anthos, orcs, elves, dwarves, kharajyr and humans. Do not let the ambition of a power crazed King drive our races apart in hatred. We the Dwarves do not fight for land but for our survival against a foe that seeks nothing but their own ends. A foe who will lie to and deceive the people of Anthos until all are driven apart.  Yet his quest for vengeance will falter. For it is they who broke the peace. They who continue to fight a war that others do not wish for. If a dwarven victory is achieved, know that we unlike the Orenians do not wish to push on into their lands, seeking a war with no end. For we fight for our homes and our families. The humans have nothing to fight for but the crazed desires of a King who has been driven mad by dreams of conquest. If the Grand Kingdom falls, there will no means of stopping Oren from creating the empire it desires: For as long we remain as a part of this world, we will never allow that to happen again.

 

 

[Hanrahan 2983]

Arnorian nods. "The Dwarf-Lord speaks true and well, no argument of man may compare to this."

[SirSnowMan 318]

"The bodies of Dwarven children will be scattered across the Warfront" Says man of Ailred.

[yopplwasupxxx 5946]

"You declared war over a Club Penguin game, just shut the **** up midgets."

[Lark 2227]

"You declared war over a Club Penguin game, just shut the **** up midgets."

 

Lark seconds this.

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

Art continues not to care.

So does Ciaran.

Ivan II, shroom king of schattenburg swears his allegiance to the halfling empire.

[Dreek 1633]

"The bodies of Dwarven children will be scattered across the Warfront" Says man of Ailred.

Fariken wonders where he will find any Dwarven Children

[Lago 2572]

"Igors head is the price for peace, such is known silly rascals"

 

"That, and all the dwarves' worldy possessions AND their capital, right? When ah hear it from t'e King himself, then ah'll believe yer."

[iTzShambo 135]

Delrik of the clan of The Axes that are Grand shall defend Igor .

[monkeypoacher 8055]

"Do nae let t'e words of t'e rat t'at stole maneh blocks o' me gold from my 'ouse, t'e livelihood of an entire famileh, including me pregnant woife, fill thee with 'ope." 

[iris1612 1780]

Amuel Sano looks at the poster in disgust.

 

"If the Dwarves wish to end the war, let it be so. If they wish to lay their arms down, let it be so. Only a few Elven days ago, they snuck into Abresi, like cowards, and kidnapped our good queen. Perhaps the Human Race is a flawed one, full of corruption, but the Dwarves are no better. The blame lies on all our shoulders, yet none is willing to end the conflict. If the Dwarves are so eager for peace, they should create it themselves."

[Knox213 10]

Heinrik chuckles

 

“Your argument is wholly based on critiquing my ancestors; men who I cannot punish and men whom I do agree held some fault in their acts. Mine is of those who still rule over you, petty dwarf, mad-men, psychopaths, who fight their wars over, as rumor has it, a mysterious and heretical device known as Club Penguin, write letters in foreign scripts of “gg, kid”, whom had the delirious fancy that perhaps Setherin would right you of your wrongs. I do not want to see Urguan fall; I want to see its **** nobility, those who perpetrated the slaughter of my people and aiding of a half-elven separatist faction, consorting with Setherin, kidnapping of my wife and butchering of my guard hang tall and high with maggots worming in their teeth, tongue black as tar, and their petty servants stripped from rank.”

[Zezimus 1523]

Wulfgar chuckles to himself as he sees the note nailed aside the original, after which he turns his head towards Farren.

 

"T'e Carrion 'as stated plainly wut 'e wunts. Vengeance against acts t'at 'is own kin 'ave perpetrated. T'at is why t'is war shall nevah see an end whoile 'e stays in control ov Oren. T'e yun' King 'is reckless n' ignorant ov t'e lands outsoide 'is own. Aye, weh 'ave nuh choice but tu' foight t'e invader back intu' t'e north. May 'is soul beh damned tu t'e depths ov Vuur'Dor fer 'is unwanton blood lust."

[Will (TauFirewarrior) 2466]

"To my memory Oren is as it is due to faults of the Grand Kingdom. They supported the Carrions getting a Kingdom, later supported the plot against myself by allying with Ruska. You never want to admit you are at fault you shaped these events to come it is only the fault of the Grand Kingdom and its Lords. You made a foolish choice to back a rebellion and invaded our lands or did you forget that? You kicked a hornets nest of humans ready to fight and you should have known by taking a foolish risk such as that you have risked the security of your Kingdom all for the sake of war because a Baron may have been a bit annoying at a formal event. You made the choices and must live with them, lay down your arms and you'll be treated with honour."

[Birdwhisperer 1174]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.