TO MY HOMELAND

[Zaerie 3747]

 

TO MY HOMELAND

As issued and confirmed by HER HIGHNESS, Aleksandra Mariya Alimar, and scribed by private courtiers

 

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To the Ruberni people,

 

Are you proud of yourselves? I’m certain you are. It is evidently such a feat of strength, to kill a nine year old girl. To the men and women who fight alongside the Morsgradi in their cause, I am certain you must feel accomplished in your prowess against children. As a Princess of Rubern, as someone who once stood at your side, I am revolted. I am disgusted by the side that my brother, Prince Marius, has chosen. You consider yourselves to be fighting for good, to be good, when I have witnessed nothing of the likes.

 

To an eleven year old girl, you threatened to hang her - Louisa Antonia of Pruvia, if her ransom was not paid for. What does a child of eleven have anything to do with war other than being another innocent bystander of the horrors? And to the Duke Godric, what ‘great sin’ have these children committed? It seems you to be two-faced rather, unable to answer to your own crimes and covering them with falsehood statements. How hypocritical these statements have become. There is only so much blatant aggression, so many lies and abuses, so many innocent lives taken any righteous man could tolerate. 

 

You, the Ruberni, and thus including the AIS, would willingly string up an eleven year old to hang for no wrongdoing. If Prince Leopold of Kaedrin’s ransom was not paid, a child as well, you would have slaughtered him. If the Empress, Lorena Christina, had not so valiantly traded herself for her child, what hesitation would you have had against taking a knife to the Imperial Princess - a five year old? There would certainly be none, as you had none against the slaughter of the nine year old, Princess of Haense, Alexandria Cecilya Barbanov. The Morsgradi and Ruberni people, those who stand with them, aligned with AIS, are a shame to all walks of life.

 

How dare you call your war for the good, for the right purposes. You are disgusting, shameful. You, my people who I was raised alongside, slit the throats of bound and defenseless men after taunting them of their demise and stabbed a young girl of only nine to death. You, my people, hold people in displayed cages, prodding them with hot irons, throwing seeds at them for ‘food’. You, my people, are no people I shall ever be proud of. I will never be proud to know I was born alongside you, with you, as a princess of Rubern.

 

The actions of cowards, willing to take pride in stabbing young girls, will come back upon you all. Come the reaping day, we shall be among you.

 

MAY PRINCESS ALEXANDRIA REST IN PEACE.

 

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Signed, 

HER HIGHNESS, Aleksandra Mariya Barbanov-Alimar, 

Princess of Rubern

[wolfdwg 2677]

"Poisoned words of an Orenian puppet, you are no true Ruberni, wench," states a disgusted Godemir.

[Legoboy7984 3155]

Perhaps once the Prince of Rubern, Marius, becomes of age and gains control of Rubern he may fix his regents' terrible decisions. Though a strong statement from the very young Princess indeed. All we can do is pray and hope that GOD’s will shall be with us the next saints day.

 

 

 

[Cobbler 809]

Tovelm would sigh “Does this “Princess” who stands within her stone walls think that her soldiers do not do the same? That the same atrocities that she states does not happen to those of the AIS? Shameful.” 

[1_Language_1 1671]

“It is good that the men of Oren are not barbaric enough to return the gesture to the children of parents in the AIS.” An elderly man replied to the winds, rubbing back his damp face at the news of the missive. “The children rest in the Seven Skies, prancing with many other innocents among plush fields... and their murderers will have no comfort in the Seven Skies, but will only find suffering upon suffering after they die.”

 

“I’m supposed to be neutral, but it is hard not to be neutral when the other side slaughters CHILDREN. If I were a barbaric man, I would have tossed their expectant mothers into their frozen lake. So be it, that if any AIS man steps into my homeland, I shall treat them how I treat others who harm children. Only to the mothers and children of the AIS, to whom I show mercy.”

[Imperium 3495]

1 minute ago, Arundlt said:

Tovelm would sigh, does this “Princess” who stands within her stone walls think that her soldiers do not do the same? That the same atrocities that she states does not happen to those of the AIS? Shameful 

“We kill soldiers, not children.” Says an Imperial 

[rukio 8924]

7 minutes ago, Wolfdwg said:

"Poisoned words of an Orenian puppet, you are no true Ruberni, wench." Would state a disgusted Godemir.

“And you kill children!” A rare tone and expression escapes Edyth, one of sheer disgust and hatred. “Innocent children who have done NOTHING to you. Even your High Keeper finds disgust in these actions. If you believe the slaughter of children is ever excusable, perhaps you’re the poisoned one.” 

[Ivoreyy 2303]

Alexandria smiles from above.

[Eryane 3698]

Within the public Haeseni gardens, Maya Alimar settled herself on the only bench there with her eyes glazing over the direct spot where she, Andrik, and Alexandria had been planning their recreation of the Prikaz in the snow only days before. As she closed her eyes and rested the missive down beside her, she could still see the lifeless young princess – only nine – whose body had just been recovered. 

 

The last she saw of Alex was when she ventured out of the gardens to gather more snow for their fort. A child simply going about childish things – and she was slaughtered. “This is why we fight,” she murmured to herself as she prayed for Alexandria’s easy ascending to the seven skies to be with her mother, despite it being far too soon.

[AndrewTech 3333]

Reserved. 

[Anderssn 1115]

“Not a single child has been harmed by Ruberni men, at least not under my watch. I ensured the Imperial Princess was not harmed, and I ensured the Prince of Kaedrin was not harmed either when captured, even had some decent chatter with him. I’d say he seemed like a decent lad.” Marius Stiboricz shook his head. “Like mother like daughter I suppose.”

[Legoboy7984 3155]

1 minute ago, Anderssn said:

“Not a single child has been harmed by Ruberni men, at least not under my watch. I ensured the Imperial Princess was not harmed, and I ensured the Prince of Kaedrin was not harmed either when captured, even had some decent chatter with him. I’d say he seemed like a decent lad.” Marius Stiboricz shook his head. “Like mother like daughter I suppose.”

 

The Princess was brutally killed in Rubern by your own men along with the barbarians you fight for and with. Killing soldiers is one thing but killing children is disgusting.

[koanda 620]

“A diamond she has become.” Ester would comment as she read over her daughters words, a gentle smile forming on her lips for the first in what felt like years. “God has truly blessed me with you, Aleks. I only pray that your brother learns from your wisdom.”

[Dyl 2088]

“Why must our young be subject to such violence? Is there no mercy for those who cannot fight back? How does one justify the murder of a young girl?”

[Axelu 4333]

@Ivorey

 

Milena Ekaterina ushers her daughter into her embrace, affectionately bussing her forehead. Together, they’d revel in the pure light of the Seven Skies.
 

“Too soon, my dove.. too soon you were ripped from the world by such frivolity and war. Now come, let us read the letters we wrote not too long ago.”