Before All Things, A Church

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An imagined Church of James II

 

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I address this letter to the Imperial subjects of the south, within Redenford, and namely the Lord Stahl-Elendil, proprietor of the municipality;

 

I have been given the responsibility to serve as your humble Magistrate, and as such, I shall perform my duties without reservation against politic and remorse. That this land, that has changed hands so often it may as well have never been given, is in the state it is, is an example of the failure of the men given it. You, too, have suffered difficulty in it's development, from a lack of parties interested, or otherwise, I cannot say.

 

All these things, I can forgive. That I write you now is evidence of this. As your Magistrate, and your Prince, I shall be fair and stable, and make yourself my partner in our endeavor to create, should you also make me yours. Yet there must be stipulation to this, that without I can have no faith that we may resolve the poisons of past attempts and become truly together and truly in dedication.

 

You do all things in service to the state, Lord Stahl-Elendil, and I am eternally grateful to this, as was my dear Imperial mother. I, too, served the state in the Army for nearly twenty-five years before I departed to work only in the service of God. And so I ask you this, relieve the burden of soul from this place so without Him. Let nothing stand in Redenford before a monument to God, and share with me in His glory. 

 

Tear this old Redenford down, and there should be no nail hammered in a new Redenford until a Church is built and consecrated in whole, and that that Church be named for my deceased and most holy father, James II.

 

Peace be with you,

HIH The Duke of Crestfall

 

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