Homeland

[Eryane 3698]

 

HOMELAND

 

When I was much younger than I am now, I heard people echo this word all around me. They reminisce of the rolling fields and bustling pristine capital city and towns on its outskirts, the glistening manors perched not far from the main road, and the palaces that struck them with awe. Work for your homeland, fight for your homeland, die for your homeland. And what do you do - how do you choose - when your homeland fights itself? What comes of the word, how far does homeland stretch when constricted by infighting? It feels as though the luxury of this once far-reaching term in the context of Orenian society was robbed from me. 

 

Those older than me knew a time when there was not tension, perhaps not peace in the foreign sphere, yet at least little friction between the Orenian peoples. I was born and raised in internal conflict, amidst the Brother’s War after the dissolution of the empire, as were others of my generation. We have never known peace like our parents have, and it is questionable even if our parents knew it either.

 

Can we not, as Orenians, come together as one alongside a governmental regime that listens closer to the will of the people, than to destroy our homeland in its entirety? I ask this of Acre, of the House of Novellen, of us all. Why is it that Oren must end, the Oren we have built, the Oren our ancestors died for? Why must we bring a conclusion to our customs and cultures, our community? I fail to understand the incessant need to bring the concept of nation that brings us together to its knees, to dissolve it, when it can be made better and we can put to rest the needless bloodshed of our own kin. Have we not killed each other enough already? 

 

We have seen kinslaying in the imperial family, brothers killing brothers, to that in our own fields. I cannot urge enough that there be some referendum, some conference, of the Orenian populace in its entirety. Dare I say regime change, but not the end of our home. If it is truly the end of our nation that the majority yearns for, then we shall see then rather than to murder one another viciously. There is never any honor in murdering those of your own nation, your brothers and sisters. We all, as Orenians, know that the true power is not derived from the miraculous nature of our rulers but from the people itself that uphold it. This rebellion should be an awakening, as was the Brothers War, that elites bleed red like commoners. 

 

To the Haeseni who watch as Orenian blood is spilt, mayhaps unsure of where to stand or what to do, please do not forget that we are as human as you and do not deserve the destruction of our homeland - as you did not, in the times before when Haense stood at the brink of death. I ask that you do not aid in the end of our home, as we did not with yours many years ago with the Rubern War. There is a chance that we, as humans, may prosper as two equal nations. There has always been a chance, I believe and pray that all have always known this potential to have existed, even if our rulers have not before been willing to take it because of their own grievances.

 

I hope that one day I shall see my homeland in its calm, peaceful state once more that is no longer driven by chaos- a homeland that is willing to cooperate with its foreign neighbors rather than exploit them; a homeland that can flourish in its multicultural origins and have an age of tranquility without having to be removed from the map; a homeland named Oren, without fear being struck down by its own brothers and sisters within.

 

PRO DOMO ET PATRIA,

Arabella of Providence

 

Spoiler

i hope Google translate got the Latin right xd

 

reply as you wish as according to your characters :]

 

PS can someone hit me up with a good song for this bc I can't find one

 

[Nord 346]

"Not on my watch" said Darius

[KamikazeReaper 457]

"come together as one alongside a governmental regime that listens closer to the will of the people, than to destroy our homeland in its entirety?"

Cesar read out load, " Failstaff and his bloody goons is the regime thats destorying our homeland from within, and our oh so wise king started the whole issue. By making another damn Sedan.  someone should had read and learned from imperial history before tearing every god damn thing down. A war looms and our dictator leadership has fallen slient no words said no action made"
Cesar said out loud in his office, before packing his backpack

[Herod 1417]

“The Orenian realm has been the sick man of the descendant races for quite a long time, some may even say it began with their loss at the Sutican War. It is the culmination of a steady decline, brought tumbling down by a successive line of inept and dull rulers. Let none question why the peasant rises up against the Crown, it will take a long time for the Heartlanders to come together again.” Kaustantin noted to himself and his disinterested wife as he read the missive in his cottage, he first felt pity to those in peoples in the south, but then remembered how their shared hatred had grown in recent years, thus shrugged.

[zuziee 4004]

1 hour ago, Herod said:

Kaustantin noted to himself and his disinterested wife

Nikoleta sat in her rocking chair knitting something itchy for her niece Isabel. Upon her husbands rant she’d muttering something about how they should figure out dinner and not dwell on other nations issues. 

[Buffsanta 961]

Lord Marshal Hieran Melphestaus, once an Orenian General, reads over the missive from his manor on Haeseni soil. Though it makes him pause, a slight sneer pricked his lips as he remembers the day the Brothers war began.

"They brought this upon themselves. It was as foreseeable as the chime of a grandfather clock."

He would finally state as the ker lays the missive on his desk.

"I am far from human, and my days in Oren have past. They must learn to fight their own wars as the Empire once did."

 

Spoiler

OOCly, best of luck. Just not my war to fight :3

 

[MRCHENN 4741]

The Baron of Guise, retired for some years, sends a parcel of aging advice from his keep in the Lower Petra.

 

"A powerful regime, one that sacrifices the liberty of extreme centralization for the prosperity of its landlords, levies, and development of its provincial culture, is no short of historically significant. Nonetheless, inevitably, as powerful as its ascension, it has met an equivalent end.

 

Do not be mistaken, Arabella. This trend is representative of shifts in culture and will mark great chapters in the annals of Man. Men will build great kingdoms, and there will be those who rise to topple them. Nor is this something to be treated inconsequential. The mere fact that the actions and consequences of Orenian history, as a polity, has as much moderation on the outcomes of the realm, while other nations merely follow suit, is a testament to its significance.

 

The Orenian spirit, when it rises and even falls, will always be triumphant in history over the stagnancy of which your foreign critics comment inwards, for they have none else to build. Men will remember Philip and Manfred. They will remember Frederick and Conrad. They will remember Gustaf and Hadrian. But they will not remember the men who sat in their chairs from the North who sought to spit from afar, or the men in the desert who pretended to be Imperial."

[Cjmate 1270]

"The Kingdom of Oren must be destroyed so a more noble Empire may rise."