An Orenian's Response

[amyselia 2962]

A depiction of St. Emma of Woldzmir being fitted into her armor.

 

RE: A PEER’S CHOICE

The following is a public letter addressed to the Palace of Woldzmir.

 

Chère Anna Tuvyic, 

The irony of your betrayal against those that you have been estranged with is rich, yet to present it on such futile claims as those that have risen against Our Majesties in the past years' coupling is exactly the sort of behaviour I have witnessed from you in the past, as noted by a letter I sent you several years back that was left unanswered. Your origins as an adoptive of heretical blood leeching creatures abhors any claim you throw towards the moral high ground. Your loyalty to a woman who has attempted diplomacy via a treasonous supposition of her own power lays thick the duplicity of yourself and the godless, long-cursed House of Tuvyic as it stands on the legacy of Ostromir. What a pity it is to see a blasphemous house blaspheming once more.

The points you arrive at in your letter shows a blatant lack of understanding towards Orenian matters as they stand. This is undoubtedly owed to your voluntary ignorance in controversy. You have holed yourself up in your palace, and thus appear like an emu sticking its head in the sand to attempt to confuse its own predator. I will not be kind in my riposte, for your behaviour is a scourge against the new strength the empire has gathered. Be as the Priestess Ileana, open in your convictions on the streets. Words such as those you espouse through letters only convince our enemies of your virtue, not our people, although I am sure that your heart lingers with the former.

 

On the matter of your safety:

To assume that any soldier would lay harm to you or her Imperial Highness within the walls of Aster Hall is laughable if we examine the mercy manifested so far. When the dwarven king was captured, even he- the source of this war's suffering -was granted mercy. When it was believed that the Pontiff was conspiring with heretics to wage war against his faithful, even he- with men condemning him as a traitor to mankind -was granted mercy. Not a single hand was cast upon his holy vestments, and not a single hand would've been cast against you if you had only sought reconciliation via communication with Their Majesties. It is evident now that you refuse it, not that it has not been offered. 

 

On the matter of the war:

What a wonderful dream it would be if the war ended upon His Imperial Majesty’s abdication. The dwarves’ coalition is not a coalition with the purpose of dethroning anathema, for they care not for our canonist laws and neither do their allies. Its purpose is the thieving of our lands, done to strike at the very heart of our peerages and destroy the homes of thousands who reside in the country, and with it the morale of all orenian men. Regardless of who rules the throne, Oren now stands against an enemy that wishes it and its people tongueless, subservient and powerless. Beyond that, the Prince of Providence is the only rightful heir to Oren via the law of renatian succession, and his opinion stands with his Imperial parents on the matter of this war. To place the entire empire on a child’s shoulders would be to condemn us to a gruesome defeat, and there is no doubt that he would be the puppet of one or another man with malicious intent.

 

On the matter of anathema:

If you believe the hearsay that regards Her Imperial Majesty as a murderer, you would find your point lost in the fact that any mention of his death as anything beyond the hand of the bewitched former Governor has been confirmed false by the withdrawal of the speculative report that accused her Imperial Majesty in the first place, if it was even a ‘report’ at all.  Whomever raised the evidence against her to the Pontiff shows the same cowardice you do now in your deceit. If there is no evidence for Her Imperial Majesty’s murder of the prince, then there is no evidence behind this anathema. It is fueled by a deep and ongoing hatred against the Empire that would allow the Dwarves their crusade against Men, with Men fighting alongside them for reasons we can but shed tears in ponderance of.

 

I hope you think on my responses and more, although it will not help you in the slightest, for you are set in your mind and your aversion to the plight of the orenian people.

A plús, 

Claude Élisabeth de Savoy.

 

Spoiler

No hate to UnBaed! My character has never liked hers so I capitalized on this story.

[Da_Emperors 1987]

Peter August of House Kaphro would look towards the missive of Lady de Savoy. He would smile as he commented, "Claude de Savoy is but a idol of wisdom to all her fellow Orenians."  He moved back towards the gates as he would offer to take over the next shift from the Imperial Solider on duty. 

 

[veganwalmart 1059]

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[argonian 14254]

"Rather strange that so much ink would need to be spilled to convince the faithful that the dwarves invaded Oren... lest that were not the fact, and that Oren were actually the one to initiate hostilities with an ultimatum of its own. Ah, but what use is such a fantasy scenariio?" Jurgen asks, heading to Woldzmir once more, in case his services may finally be of use.

[tilly 5115]

"Oh, my goodness," murmured Odessa, having had to squint by candlelight in order to even be able to comprehend the missive. "How will this all unfold..." Ticking her tongue, the chamberlain doused her candle and shuffled off to bed.

[Reckless Banzai Screamer 15456]

Somehow, someway the public letter ended up in the Padre's mailbox and he'd read it over in the Temple of Kaer'Lassar's sanitorium after a destructive Tamale Monday, liking some good chisme from Canondom's politics while he dealt with horrid blood sucking yokai in his backwater parish.

 

"Aaah, mijo!" He'd toss the missive over the interior wall to one of his acolytes. "Do yer tarea mijo. When ju write yer thesis, be a little mas coherent den her."

 

A loud eruption sounded soon after and the acolyte fled the facility in a panic.

[Tulan 443]

6 hours ago, amyselia said:

The dwarves’ coalition is not a coalition with the purpose of dethroning anathema, for they care not for our canonist laws and neither do their allies.

"This is simply a false narrative, if the Emperor and his Empress abdicate their grip on the Imperial throne. And live out their days in exile, accepting the righteous justice before Godan for their countless sins, the people of Orenia would ultimately be spared, it would do you well to not make conjectures." Sigmar Baruch sighed, rubbing his forehead in disbelief. As he would pen the public response "However misinformed you must be, this saddens me that free thinking is not a practice in Oren. The Empire is better than any one man, or woman. And might avoid the needless bloodshed with a simple stroke of a pen from the Emperor's hand." 

 

[Ramon 5186]

"Orenians sure are delusional" Fiodor Cardinal Allobrogum remarked, the letter alone giving him a headache.