Regarding the Integrity of the North

[Piov 2643]

@Caranthir_
@_Stigwig

 

Regarding the Integrity of the North:

A Response to John Alexander

 

 

10th of Tobias’ Bounty, 1717

 

To Mr. John Alexander,

 

I write to you in the spirit of your recent publication regarding your charges that the House of Barbanov has “forfeited its claim in treason,” for this is mischaracterized and falsely stated. Before even addressing this matter at hand, it is quite clear that the circumstances of your words seem to be conceived out of personal avarice and most opportune to take advantage of the current state of affairs. If you had cared even remotely about the denizens whom you call your kin, you would have addressed the issues that the Pertinaxi Dynasty had committed long before this whole conflict had ensued. Peace is our objective here. Unity is the resolve. Sowing dissent within the family name and that of North only affords you greater detriment, counterintuitive to the goal you had espoused in preserving the integrity of the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska.

 

Returning to your assertion that the House of Barbanov as it currently stands is jeopardizing itself if it does not cease its efforts against Renatus. The statement you make is inherently a form of treachery to the family and kingdom to which you claim to seek to save. Your statement regarding the treasonous acts that the Royal family has committed by fighting is wrongly stated. The Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska was bound by oath and fealty to the Empire of Man when its declaration of loyalty was made under Emperor Aurelius Canonius in 1678. If you do not recall, these oaths were duly dissolved by Emperor Anthony Pertinaxi:

“So I shall leave, this time on a permanent pilgrimage. To return to continue past my fathers grave in search for my grandfather. However, I shall not carry the weight of the failed promise to my father to his grave. I shall not see him once more with an empire which is not equal to the one I promised.

 

So I shall release all my lawful vassals, signers of the reign of Antonius from there fealty to the Empire. I shall be the last Emperor of Man, with me the title shall destroyed alongside the Empire”

A RETURN TO DUST, 1715

 

Thusly, all obligations of fealty have been negated by the Empire of Man, releasing Haense and that of the other vassal states who were once pledged by GOD to serve any empire.

 

We stand unequivocally with the judgment of our liege, King Marius II of the House of Barbanov, in whose name GOD has bestowed the protection and welfare of the Highlanders. You insult the very titles and ancestral roots of this realm, slandering your kin and turning your back against the people of the North in exchange for political expediency bribed to you by Renatus, a people who do not hold the best interest of Haense.

I address to you personally, as a man of character. I do not write against Renatus, in whose struggle for unity among men is of a different caliber. I direct this to you personally, for you to see your erroneous words.

 

I pray you see the wronging of this regard, and I speak from my personal opinion, and in the spirit of the Highlanders that we do not take your absurdity with any regard. May GOD keep you from committing further such transgressions to our hallowed people.

 

Source: https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/181607-a-return-to-dust/

 

IV JOVEO MAAN,

His Highness, Prince Georg Stanimar of the House of Barbanov-Alimar, Lord Speaker and Herzen of the Royal Duma of the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska

 

 

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The Old Crow Edward Barbanov could not help but smile as he read the missive.

 

“That’s my boy.”

[_Stigwig 1510]

Cousin,

 

I receive, and appreciate, your missive. I much prefer this form of conflict - of legalese and written word - to the harsh twilight of battle. It seems, sadly, that in these dark times it is the latter which often emerges triumphant as the best resolution to the quarrels which occupy men.

 

Let me first dispel the impression which hangs behind the entirety of your response - that I am somehow “bribed” by Renatus and a foreign agent whose will has been somehow subverted. This idea of Renatus as a foreign, oppressive and unknown agent lies behind the myths which sustain this entire conspiracy and rebellion. I serve the same Empire which my father and grandfather served nobly. I serve the same Empire which you, and your King, served for over thirty loyal years; a service which should be applauded for its devotion and strength. Renatus is no foreign imperial state but merely a renamed Empire of Man - a state which you owed ancient oaths to; oaths now broken.

 

I see, regretfully, that despite your apparent willingness to engage with me as a man of character in peaceful, measured written words you have totally ignored the central tract of my essay. You turn to the erroneous ‘A Return to Dust’, published by Antonius, to justify the treasonous actions of the royals of Hanseti-Ruska. Yet the legitimacy of this document I have already discussed, and found seriously lacking.

 

Let me repeat this simply and clearly in the perhaps forlorn hope that no more shall men be deceived as to the true nature of the events surrounding the Marnanite rebellion:

 

No oaths were dissolved by Antonius - for he was not Emperor when he penned his missive. In response to his person being missing, presumed fallen, he was replaced by the common assent of the Privy Council and the peoples of Renatus by Godfrey III, the chosen heir - the Empire follows lateral succession after all.

 

Following the ascension of Godfrey III to Emperor, when Antonius was stripped of power, he published his decree. This was a decree with no legal power, serving simply as a screen to excuse the oath-breaking of those varied signatories of the Nenzing Proclamation.

 

The vassals of the Empire of Man owed loyalty and fealty to Godfrey III, therefore. Even when this Empire was renamed to the Imperium Renatum they still owed oaths, for no state had been dissolved and no ancient oaths allowed to fall - it was merely a change in name, designed to reflect the shattered state of Humanity.

 

It was these ancient oaths, which you yourself acknowledge the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska swore by in 1678, which were shattered in a treasonous fashion by the proclamation of open rebellion against the Imperial Crown.

 

I respect your openness and willing desire to engage in constructive dialogue. I welcome this from any of my people, and will meet safely with any who wish to speak face-to-face, yet I will always dispel false rumours designed to disguise treasonous activity which disrespects the Creator Himself. You are my cousin, and blood must always be treated with respect.

 

I stand here, accused of avarice and raw ambition - lambasted for supposed lies. Yet it is I who stands true to ancient oaths, who stands by promises made in the presence of the Lord. It is the false Marius and his acolytes who attempt to obscure the truth and pretend that their treasonous activity is somehow justified, openly lying about the status of the late Antonius.

 

I would rather face open traitors than the weasels who attempt to deceive Highlanders into believing that their open warfare is justified rather than an affront to their oaths and GOD given promises.

 

John Alexander, Prince of Alstion

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