On Tides of Titans

[Treshure 5817]

 

@Ankan

 

 

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A letter is published to Haelun’or.

 

ON TIDES OF TITANS,

Sohaer Dimaethor,

 

You may recall me in earlier days. Years ago I was a hawk on your perch, preaching the unity Elvenesse required. In my words, it was in the form of Empire. Earlier yet, I served as a statesman of the Dominion and later a scholar of Gladewynn. I have dealt with the many international affairs you fraternize with. I believe we also share a common dream, that which extends past the barriers of different blood - the independence of Elvenkind.

 

My authority and influence has expired. No ears lend themselves to my whispering words any longer. But perhaps I can share with you my perspective. The vast majority of my kin have departed these lands, but I see shameful to let the wealth of their knowledge leave as well. We have fought the same Imperial foe as you. We have also broken bread with them. Let me lend to you their nature.

 

We were recovering from rebellion when the Empire of Man had risen from the ash. The Empire before had, like all others, withered to bits. Be it stagnation or the coalitions gathered to dismantle the great title of Empire, all renditions of Empire die. That fact is as immutable as time. However, it is equally true that it will form again. Like the waxing and waning of the moon, the Titan reclaims Her titles century by century.

 

It is why we regarded the Imperial body with such caution. It is why, against the interests of our officers, we treated rather than fought. We collaborated with Imperial warbands despite their veiled contempt for our kind. When we were later aggressed upon in the days of the Elven Union, we dared not extend a sword beyond the reach of our forests. We may have been called cowardly for avoiding the field. In the eyes of our elders, it was survival.

 

You now find yourselves in the midst of a global coalition. I do not blame you. The atrocities levied against our kind have been enormous - the hate of my heart would jump too with the ambition to dismantle the Empire. Yet the current state worries me. Coalitions are a passionate love: burning with rage and dying as quickly as they had arisen. Time passes, and yet the Empire remains - licking its wounds and facilitating a cohesion the alliance cannot replicate.

 

I worry again in the quality of your allies. Brigands who murder children bear the same moniker as you, ‘AIS’. As I am sure justice shall be met, the conditions that produced these ruffians remain. The Duke Godric may be just, but his minions lack the noble stock. The Imperial body will be quick to announce this fact. Sooner than later, the Elven name will be mixed with outlaws and rebellion of the lowest quality. 

Worse yet is that the Empire will remember. If the AIS were to mount the walls of Helena and tear it asunder, which may very well happen, they shall still remember. When the nascent Empire wakes again, it will carry with it the terrible memories of who had undone it before. And hell will quake with the rage it brings.

 

These are trying times for you, for Haelun’or, and for Elvenkind. My words no longer carry any power, so treat this as advice from an old friend: exercise caution. When you drew your swords for the alliance, you entered the dance of death. Emerge alive. 

 

Thexan Ithelanen

 

[Guest]

“You must not forget our history,” said Kairn to Thexan at their next private meeting. “We do not abscond from the deeds of the White Rose so readily. Nor must we suffer their machinations to put a petty Chieftain on the throne of the Wood Elves. These humans have a breed of madness about them, I would sooner befriend men in the future who have semblance to Aurelius Horen rather than these poor imitations. We fight to protect our borders and remind them to keep to their lands.”

[ReveredOwl 5639]

3 hours ago, Mumkey said:

“You must not forget our history,” said Kairn to Thexan at their next private meeting. “We do not abscond from the deeds of the White Rose so readily. Nor must we suffer their machinations to put a petty Chieftain on the throne of the Wood Elves. These humans have a breed of madness about them, I would sooner befriend men in the future who have semblance to Aurelius Horen rather than these poor imitations. We fight to protect our borders and remind them to keep to their lands.”

"You are simply forgetting, oren only attacked you after you killed its diplomats. Diplomats sent with haelun'ors diplomats. Oren only supported its allies, but as you always do, you twist history to become victims to make yourselves seem just." Said Farley. 

[Aeus 2653]

8 hours ago, ReveredOwl said:

"You are simply forgetting, oren only attacked you after you killed its diplomats. Diplomats sent with haelun'ors diplomats. Oren only supported its allies, but as you always do, you twist history to become victims to make yourselves seem just." Said Farley. 

 

“Oren goes behind its allies to put insert their own power into Elven communities. You simply forget this war started with Haense killing and trying to project their power over everyone around them.”