To The Heartland Crowns

[sophiaa 778]

Spoiler

 

 

 

To The Heartland Crowns

Issued Spring 1741 by Godric of Morsgrad on behalf of the Alliance of Independent States

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           It has been a short war. My armies and the legions of my many allies have run rampant upon your lands. Your mercenaries abandon you. Your once vassals decry your tyranny. Your forces are in desperate need of arms and armour before the siege has even begun. Your men are outnumbered and outmatched by any measure. Among your legions, there are no great heroes of renown as there stood in Helena. None among you who can rival the achievement of the dauntless Donald Dabber. As things stand for you, the question of annihilation is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’. Your forebears have stood in this position over my people so many times before. Again and again, ordering the genocide of my people. Fate mocks us all in the end I suppose. Yet in the end, I am not one to condone an entire people to die. 

 

           Whilst I have nothing but contempt for you two who bear crowns in the south, I am not the genocidal barbarian you all so desperately wish me to be. I have little quarrel with the common folk who dwell within your domains. I’ve no desire to inflict pain upon your people that war so unfortunately demands. My aims have always laid in the preservation of my people and faith, the maintenance of our oaths and bonds. It is in that spirit that I will extend to you this singular offer of surrender. If these terms are accepted in full then the war shall end, there shall be no more death, no more violence. The roads shall once more be available for travel. Should they be denied, there will be no more quarter. I will burn your city to the ground and put your people to the stake.

 

            In that regard, I implore you to fulfill your obligation as nobles. Do what is best for your people,

 

The Crown of Helena and Crown of Haense shall

 

 

I. Recognize their complete culpability in starting this war, shall accept full wrongdoing for the ambush of the Auvergne in violation of Ruberni sovereignty and their violation of the tenets of the Western Alliance.

 

II. Dissolve the Ministry of Elven Affairs, acknowledging the permanent and inalienable sovereignty the Elven Tripartite maintains overall Aldari nations.

 

III. Recognize the independence of the Arch-Duchy of Suffonia and the Kingdom of Curon, or any successor states, as well as their sovereignty over their respective territories

 

IV. Dissolve the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska, the title of Hanseti illegitimately held by Haense. The Kingdom of Hanseti title shall be ceded to Halgrim, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order. The Kingdom shall be reformed as the Kingdom of Ruska.

 

V. King Andrik of Ruska will abdicate his throne to Vladrick the Black Prince of Rubern, as well as recognising the independence of the Kingdom of Ruska.

I. Alternatively, the Kingdom of Ruska can vassalize to Rubern with their own elected monarch, remaining with a large portion of their autonomy beneath Rubern. In doing this, the Crown of Helena thereby recognise they have no claim upon the Kingdom of Ruska and recognise them as a rightful vassal of Rubern.

 

VI. King Peter of Helena will cede his claim to ‘protector of the highlanders’ to Godric of Morsgrad.

 

VII. King Andrik and his officers will personally reimburse Orphée de Beauvais of Auvergne for the crimes inflicted against his people to the amount of ten thousand minas.

 

VIII. Formally recognize that all grievances are settled and shall not be pursued in future conflicts.

 

The Alliance of Independent States shall

 

I. Cease all martial activities within the territories of the Kingdom of Oren, henceforth recognized as the Kingdom of Helena and the Kingdom of Ruska.

 

II. Formally recognize that all grievances are settled and shall not be pursued in future conflicts.

 

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Writ and Issued on Behalf of the Alliance of Independent States

 

Godric,

[ARCHITECUS 4788]

 

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To Duke Godric,

 

It is true, you have delivered Us a number of defeats. Bruised and bloody, We take Our wounds with vigor, each blow refreshening that indomitable spirit; that burning flame which drove Our predecessors to victory. The blood of the Empire is a singular red, and shall never deplete so as long as We live.

 

You will recall, perhaps familiarly, of the state in which John Frederick found his country. Ravaged and ransacked by years of aggression with a host of Urguanites at his gates, any lesser man would have cowed in to the submission you desire. But this is not the conduct of an Emperor! An Emperor does not abandon his faithful subjects. From the brink of devastation, John Frederick would conquer the world.

 

Our countrymen, renewed by the taste of spilt blood and sweat, enlist in defense of their beloved country. Both lines of ancient renown and lines of promising beginnings flock to the banners, ready to fill the ranks against your chaotic assault. Indeed, your forces have picked and pried at the titan; but it is Our faith and courage that shall wake him from his slumber.

 

We shall meet you again on the field of battle, again, and again, for Ours is one great spirit, and yours many disparate plots.

 

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, Peter III Anthony, Emperor of the Holy Orenian Empire, King of Renatus, Salvus, and Seventis, Duke of Helena, Lorraine, and Roden, Baron of Sedan, Protector of the Heartlanders, Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera.

 

[monkeypoacher 8055]

“Afraid you won't win an actual battle?” Joseph writes a simple letter to the duchess. It smells of indescribable substances.

[frill 2277]

Ide Haraccus Cardinal Ves raises both eyebrows as he reads Godric champion a liberated Ves through its omission from the leal territories of Oren, the man’s brown face glowing a subtle red blush at the man’s championing of republican virtue.

[ApplePieKathy 561]

“Only fools and cowards would agree to such terms,” 

Said Vivaca

 

[sophiaa 778]

9 minutes ago, rotund_man said:

“Afraid you won't win an actual battle?” Joseph writes a simple letter to the duchess. It smells of indescribable substances.

The Duchess scribbles a letter and sends it off as quickly as possible, 

 

“After eight large field battles and countless small bouts of violence, with the A.I.S. winning all of them if you’ve forgotten, I fear nothing. And, in the rarest instances that I feel butterflies within my stomach, I say a prayer and make an offering using the teeth I collected from the curb where your Emperor’s skull was stomped by my husband’s boot.

Good eve and Good luck,
Eleanor Helena”

[1_Language_1 1671]

2 minutes ago, PapiZapii said:

“Only fools and cowards would agree to such terms,” 

Said Vivaca

 

 

Matthias sighed to her words, since they were both in Vivaca’s new home, decorating.

[monkeypoacher 8055]

3 minutes ago, sophiaa said:

The Duchess scribbles a letter and sends it off as quickly as possible, 

 

“After eight large field battles and countless small bouts of violence, with the AIS winning all of them if you’ve forgotten, I fear nothing. And, in the rarest instances that I feel butterflies within my stomach, I say a prayer and make an offering using the teeth I collected from the curb where your Emperor’s skull was stomped by my husband’s boot.

Good eve,
Eleanor Helena”

Imperial Legate Lanius says,

 

 

“We shall see how brave you are when nailed to the walls of Haense, your body facing East so that you may watch your world die.”

[Evonpire 2014]

“Could I have a I’m sorry letter, for my land that was razed, signed by the Emperor?” A Renault boy would try to ask the Duchess 

[Cobbler 809]

Tovelm would accept the letter graciously from the courier, making sure his large hands did not rip it. With all his might he concentrates on the paper but alas Tovelm doesn’t know how to read therefore the paper is discarded

[Temp 2006]

Fatigued and sluggish from years of travel, the Eldest Galfred sucks at his teeth upon reading the documents lain before him, “So, the Imperial boys are short of Arms and Armor? Sounds like an easy way of making some good coin. Suppose it’d be to my benefit to see my brother make his return with the steeds as well. It’s back to Kaedrin then.”

[osumanduas 1442]

 

Spoiler

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdzEvEqC-jo

 

 

“BELIAE DOE MOEDORLAND!!” Howls a withered old Sariant. A veteran of the Iron Fields merry in the defeat of the Ruskan usurpers.

 

 

 

 

[CaptainHaense 1154]

Captain Stephen Haense awakens from his slumber, dusting off his Haeseni shield!

[winterblood 11181]

Just now, NJBB said:

“wow ain’t that something.” says pureimps character.

 

“certainly interesting,” comments hurferdurfer himself.

[ryno2 1285]

51 minutes ago, ARCHITECUS said:

You will recall, perhaps familiarly, of the state in which John Frederick found his country. Ravaged and ransacked by years of aggression with a host of Urguanites at his gates, any lesser man would have cowed in to the submission you desire. But this is not the conduct of an Emperor! An Emperor does not abandon his faithful subjects. From the brink of devastation, John Frederick would conquer the world.

Somewhere in a remote glade in Arcas, apropos of nothing, Daeron Culnamo fondly remembers chasing down John I after the siege of Dunamis and hearing reports of the latter’s drowning in Vailor’s central river.