THE IMPERIAL RESPONSE, 1734

[Icarnus 1669]

ON THE CURONIAN PROHIBITION

 

 

 

To the Earldom of Morsgrad

We of the Imperium write to you as comrades in arms and brothers of humanity, in hopes to rectify the propagation of dissent amongst the human realms. The Edict you must recently published was intentioned with affection towards the Imperial Crown, and we accept this to be true; for two brothers should hold each other to standards so as not to embarrass one another.

 

Yet we are not simply brothers, we are sovereign nations with independent and just rulers at the helm. The Vintasians or Curonians who have violated any legal promulgation of titular formation are not for you to hold accountable. To bar a singular subject of the Imperium from your lands is amount to barring any member of the Imperium, and antithetical to the connotation of non-aggression, and respect for the assertion that to be a comrade of Orenia is to be a comrade to all Orenians, and not to pick and choose.

 

It should be instead when such issues arise that your concerns are levied with the Imperial Crown, and not made clear through edict punitive to any subjects of the Imperium.

 

We ask, with all benevolent intentions, that the Earl of Morsgrad treat with the Lord Protector and his council in an effort to take steps towards the dissolution of this Edict, and to ensure to the Earl that only we of the Imperium can, and will, hold all of our vassals accountable for actions illegal, sub-standard, or generally weak in principle or purpose.

 And that we shall.

 

IN NOMENI DEI

 His Imperial Excellency, Adrian Leopold de Sarkozy,

Lord Protector of the Holy Orenian Empire, Governor-General of Helena, Duke of Adria, Baron of Renzfeld

 

Penned by Ser John de Balain, Baron of Selm