On the Pertinaxi Regime

[BenevolentManacles 2232]

On the Pertinaxi

Ser John d’Arkent

 

 

I previously wrote a childish poem in which I berated Mister Godfrey Staunton for his many deformities and failings, and have come to realize that this is not how grown men should treat each other. I seek to address on a more serious note, now that I have spent the last few years growing and learning the humanity that this war seeks to liberate from Pertinax.

 

You see, I was filled with deep hatred and anger unfettered, but also uneducated. Now I am married, and my wife, Evie Devereux, has taught me that Curonia is not an evil place, but merely misled. I’ve surmised that Renatus is the same, and that to hate you lot is as uneducated as to hate the ground that gives me an ache in my back when I fall into a drunken slumber upon it.

 

I am the baseborn son of the man you name reprobate. You call him ‘Joey’, and you are lucky you are not a boy with a stupid grin calling him that, or you lot’d surely not get the right to trial that my father has promised you. I am also a Knight, though it’d seem that’s something that means little to anyone anymore.

 

All the same, the war we fight is for a fine reason fundamentally, on both sides. Renatus fights because if they lose, they will lose their Empire. We fight because if we win, we will liberate people from what we see is tyranny with no care for progress, and who we feel has wronged too many people in violent and murderous ways too many times. If I were born and bastard of Pertinax, I’m sure I’d fight just as violently as I fight for my father.

 

What confuses me is why the the average citizen would side with you lot, the Pertinaxi-Staunton regime.

 

You are not compassionate. You do not show love. You have used violence to subjugate and punish. You have failed to show true love for GOD, and thus lost the love of His Ministry. You do not care for the right to trial or liberty, and some would say you care nothing for the right to life. When the choice is given directly to him, my father would never order a criminal’s execution; he would instead put him to trial, for the people to decide. How can it be so that your way is preferable to my father’s? I came to discover this as an example; Curon does not take the side of Pertinax because they love, they take it because they fear that if you were victorious, you would take their home, or their Kingdom, and so on. My personal opinion would be that this makes them very weak-willed.

 

I have come to the conclusion then, that the reason many have taken sides has nothing to do with our personal values. Many of your people would likely approve of my father’s ideals for the Empire, yet they are loyal to you through either fear, oaths, or a sense of belonging. My father is not soft, and has shown rage before, I would know better than any. Yet, hatred seems so distant from him, it is strange and almost inhuman. He is a man, though, and so it is easy to pick apart his failings and name him unfit to rule, or greedy, or hungry for power. It would be easy to do so of any man you did not know personally, and through knowing may have learned otherwise. Such is our nature.

 

You are willing to use the simpler and easier to evoke unity. You demonize my father and evoke hatred to consolidate your people and gather allies. You point towards my father and his allies and say ‘destroy them, reclaim our Empire!’ My father points to you and says, ‘Build a better world than this.’

 

You would make a desert and call it peace. This seems a fine reason to oppose you, and I’m sure even if he were not my father, I’d side with good old Joey any day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

As Evie glances over John shoulder, she smiles softly. "Well written my love" She speaks softly to him. "Curon is still family, hopefully they understand this and the fact only one of my family knew of our marriage' shed laugh softly 

[MunaZaldrizoti 8037]

Francesca would look over John’s other shoulder as he finished his writings, her bastard brother bringing her great pride at the literary eloquence he shared with their mutual father. “Oh, Johnny. Though they will write a silly reply, denouncing you and your words, I think what you’ve written speaks for all of us.”

[trinn 5146]

“Papa, they've written another letter.” Adeline tosses the letter away, reclining in her seat with a sigh,  “I'm starting to think that they spend more time writing than they do preparing to fulfil any of their promises of liberation. How can you liberate, when your soldiers cannot fight?”

[Dyl 2088]

Romulus would wonder why Evie claims to be neutral, but has married the enemy. She really must be lacking some brains. 

@Pun

[OppressedRaevir 42]

2 hours ago, Trinn said:

 

 

56 minutes ago, Stack Loot said:

 

“Am make remove of yam both!” boris shouts, but he was in heaven.

[Ivoreyy 2303]

Anabel blinks, having obviously missed her sisters wedding invitation- for she’d have surely been welcomed there. After all, Evie did proclaim neutrality!

[Guest]

19 hours ago, Stack Loot said:

Romulus would wonder why Evie claims to be neutral, but has married the enemy. She really must be lacking some brains. 

@Pun

 

7 hours ago, Ivoryyy_ said:

Anabel blinks, having obviously missed her sisters wedding invitation- for she’d have surely been welcomed there. After all, Evie did proclaim neutrality!

Evie sighs, looking over ecberts will. Then over her copies of the wedding invites she did sent but alas her Adrian courier was apparently murdered by renatian soldiers before they could arrive to anyone

[osumanduas 1442]

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