We Bid the Sun Come Home

[ARCHITECUS 4788]

We Bid the Sun Come Home

8th of Sun’s Smile, 1768

 

 

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TO THE RUBERNI BANDITS AND THEIR UNFORTUNATE GUESTS OF THE HOUR,

 

The stray Principality of Rubern is yet to surrender, and yet to answer for Her numbered crimes against all Oren. To those who cast their lot here, mind that you align with these terrible woes against Us.

 

The murder of various innocents, such as the young Barbanov princess.

The continued aggression against the Empire.

The supply, housing, and martial support of bandits and violent vagabonds.

The alignment with foreign hordes in invasion against the Empire.

The usurpation of land belonging within the Empire by law.

 

    We bid you, ancient de Bars, make not the mistake of the unfortunate many who flee from the Empire to find a beggar’s fortune in this bandit den. Present yourself in amiable surrender before your rightful Sovereign, lest you find yourself enemy of all the world.

 

May God lend us Wisdom, 

Peter III, by the grace of GOD Holy Orenian Emperor, forever August, King of Renatus, Curon, Salvus, Seventis, and Kaedrin, Prince of Malinor, Grand Duke of Ves, Duke of Lorraine and Roden, Baron of Sedan, Vitzburg and Sedai, Protector of the Heartlanders, Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera.

 

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[helldiving 5793]

The Prince of Vilachia smirks, penning a missive in return.

[Axelu 4333]

A decrepit woman, once Governor of the Ruberni plains, tautly furls her tremoring fingers against the missive – crumpled in her hold – as she glosses over its texts, scripted in imperious officiality. 

 

”There is naught a place like Oren; not one of these scattered piastdoms is asgrand, ambitious, and resilient. Mayhaps the Ashford remnants, and even the Ruberni baseborn sired from my brother’s lustful loins, will finally reconcile their pride with a step forward for humanity.” 

[wyvernbro 77]

“God save the Empire! God save His Imperial Majesty!”

[sergisala 3451]

"GOD Save the Emperor! Kneel before Peter III or die! There's no life worthy of living outside of the Empire!" Edward Galbraith would nod in approval to the words penned by his liege.

[calculusdesola 1658]

Riordain grumbles as he waits for the nonsensical last-stand to be declared by Rubern.

[Treshure 5817]

Balthazar peers over the missive with an air of skepticism. “The Helane Dynasty have asserted their indomitable grasp over Humanity, but this is a lineage as old as they. To bend to another Imperial monarch is doom in their eyes. The Savoyards will never forget.” His eyes wet. “I fear only war and death can come from this.”

[VIROS 2915]

James II prays that the Savoyards are restored to Oren, the homeland of humanity—and that perhaps they bring the lost Ruberni with them.

[HadvarAvMitteland 557]

Hadvar signs the Lorraine, bowing his head in despair. The Ruberni, once his brethren in battle, now under the iron fist of the Empire. Darrowmere will not be able to assist them this time...perhaps they would be welcome in our borders if worse comes to worse.

[Paulobig 133]

Alaric DeNurem, officer in the ISA halts the grindstone pedal as he sharpened his sabre. He took the missive to give it a read, as a simple thought came to mind. “Why haven’t they surrendered yet? There has been so much blood spilled, do they even have a capable military force?” He pondered for a moment as the idea passed by, resuming the operation. 

[Shmeepicus 4213]

Lukas Jokic wonders if Rubern is even still a thing.. seemed abandoned the last 100 times hes walked past.