The Nature Of Our War

[Suicidium 1295]

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Outstretched before me is a meadow, fresh with spring blossoms. Pastel shades spatter the land up to the peak of the knoll, each speckle representative of its own flower, dipped in divine scent and clustered in patches of pink and yellow. Hands rough with callouses graze through the long stalks of glossy grass, hands that belong to me.

 

As I crest the rise, an altered landscape diverges from the sweeping lea. Where there were flowers there are now bodies, broken and trampled into the upturned muddy earth. A slaughter field, land stained from battle, saturated in the blood of the fallen, abandoned and festering from a skirmish that has long since ceased.

Two scenes an apparent contrast are actually a mirror, only accelerated by time. My mother once told me that Oren’s land thrives on the blood it is fed in war. I can see that when I cast my eyes to the meadow, serene and unassuming, the remnants of a battle long forgotten.

 

“The flowers grow in patches, see child; where the bodies once laid.”

 

They sprout atop the discarded remains, sweet, beautiful flowers, thirsting for the bloodshed of war.

Sometimes I wonder if humanity thrives on the blood we spill too. It is not true of course, we thrive on what the blood represents: Power, wealth, notoriety. Surely this is not what the Creator intended for us.

 

Battle has forever marred the land here, never will it be the same, not even when flowers tumble over dead soldiers and hide their remains. Blotches of flora will forever outline the carnage that lay beneath.

 

I am still too young to marry but nay too young for bloody wars to splatter my memories.

 

More blood must spill for the meadows to finally grow in peace. So I brace myself for the pain and grasp at this chance.

Rebellion for all the wrongdoing done upon us.

 

Blood for Ashford...

 

Her Grace, Hervor Ashford de Savoie

 

 

Therein, House Ashford De Savoie, along with its cadet branches De Aryn and De Bar, will affirm its loyalties of both friendship and brotherhood with the esteemed D'Amaury of Lorraine.

 

For the good of all the realm and especially humanity, Ashford de Savoie has committed to forgiveness of sins perpetrated against its sons and daughters. We do not forget the sacrifices of each and every house of Humanus, and echo the eternal words spoken by Saint Lucien.

We will not kneel to wickedness.

 

In lieu of a private meeting, Ashford de Savoie hereby affirms closer ties for Savoy and Lorraine in the foreseeable future, and will endeavour with utmost tenacity to mend and unite the church of GOD for the sons and daughters of the Creator and propel rightful progress and prosperity for humanity.

 

His grace, Acting and Rightful Duke of Savoy, Hamelin Ashford de Savoie.

 

His exalted grace, Archduke of Lorraine and protector of Metz, John d’Amaury

 

May no further drop of our blood be spilled for naught, allow virtue and righteousness to prevail.

 

 

(( Special thanks to IllogicalOrder for helping write a good portion to this, and all those that gave this a look over to iron out any possible hiccups. Though, another afternote is that let's roll with the punches and stay together as a playerbase no matter the outcome))

 

[BahDoctor 13]

"Blood for Ashford," Louis de Aryn says. 

[CheekyNolan 5420]

"This isn't what Jon would've wanted." says a remaining Savoyard loyal to the Empire.

[Suicidium 1295]

34 minutes ago, Nolan_ said:

"This isn't what Jon would've wanted." says a remaining Savoyard loyal to the Empire.

" I'd not contest such, but the situation gravely changed after he was executed by this very Empire. We laid the groundwork of this Empire in Athera...but they manipulated and plotted for our total demise through a genocide. I saw with my own eyes Ser Alistar of Daylight clubbed to death in his own armour as he knelt in the Imperial court and prayed for us all, Jon especially. If you would support such a people...I may be young and perhaps be called naive, but there's no righteousness in all of this. We have lived peacefully with the Horens since the Treaty of Metz and allowed them to write history in their favour, further demonizing us and completely forgetting that not only did they murder King Guy De Bar, but held our kin hostage..."

[argonian 14254]

1 hour ago, Nolan_ said:

"This isn't what Jon would've wanted." says a remaining Savoyard loyal to the Empire.

"Ah yes, I'm sure Jon would've wanted you to serve the heretic Emperor who killed him and another Cardinal, before putting the Church under his authority, thereby violating the Dogma of the Church stating that it may never bow to a secular power." says a rebel.

[Viochemist 664]

Adam, proud, clad in the colors of green and gray, lifted his head with a smile. "Ave, mate." the lanky Courlandic man returned to cleaning his weapon rid of the Imperial blood. 

[mmat 7460]

"Rather than seeking to justify their actions to others, they almost seem to making excuses to delude themselves into believing it."

 

An elf states with a heavy hearted sigh.

 

Meanwhile the Savoyardic ally Drake Lancefeld screams insanely from his seaborne grave, in his infinite sorrow.

[Babadooks 566]

"Blood for Lorraine?" John questions?

[osumanduas 1442]

Ser Thomas Wettlock sighs, moving his old form over to his desk, then putting his pen to parchment.

 

"The House of de Bar, of which there are only those of base-born blood to carry it like I, will take no part in false right or claim upon Savoy, decayed and dissolved. None give a rat's arse what your mother told you, nor should a women claim such rights, nor one with such a bleeding heart. Claim what you will pretender but know that what remains of the House de Bar denounces the steps you take and the rebellion you seek."

[Daisy 9739]

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

 

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