THIS, OUR WAR

[esotericas 1529]

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[!]AMIDST SHOWERS OF RAIN ONE SPRINGTIME AFTERNOON A FLYER FINDS ITS WAY INTO THE STREETS OF VELETZ AND KAROSGRAD. IT BEARS NO NAME OR SIGNATURE.

 

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This flyer is anonymously posted. Don’t be out here metagaming. I see you and I know who you are.

 

 

 

 

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THIS, OUR WAR: THOUGHTS FROM A MAN WHO ONCE CALLED HIMSELF ADRIAN.

 

efore I begin I wish to say that these words are my own. They are my own thoughts and memories and opinions. The inaccuracies are mine and I have not been compelled to write this except out of my own feeling that I should. I also wish to say that I take no side in this war that plagues Humanity. Neither side is wholly just nor is either side wholly unjust. I have not fought for either side and I do not intend to except to protect the ones I love.

 

hat I think the Haeseni and the people of the Canonist Leagues do not understand is what Adria once was. I do not comment on what it is now because I can not say what it is now. But once Adria was something I had not thought possible. I was born in Haense and lived there for my early childhood. When I was a boy I left my home and settled in Adria. The people of Haense were to me much like the northern climates: cold and unwelcoming. Adria was nothing like what I had known. It was a home to the wayward people of the world. I was not shunned for being without a home instead I was given a home and a hot meal and offered work and protection before they even knew my name. The people of Adria were not haughty political nobility. They were the tavernkeepers the street children the soldiers the merchants. The children of Adria were devout in their faith and in their love for each other and for their home. It was a place of futures not of pasts. Ancestry and bloodlines and history were irrelevant what mattered was what lay in front of us.

 

t was not paradise though and I do not claim that it was. I faced cruelty and danger and manipulation. I was encouraged to swear oaths I did not understand and saw more pain than a boy my age should have to. But there was nothing I did not see there that the children of the Brotherhood of Haense do not also see. Adria was just as much a place of abuse and suffering and pain as Haense once was. But it was warm and friendly and hopeful and it had a future when all Haense had was a past.

 

have not lived in Adria since Duke Heinrik seized power from the King of Aaun. I do not intend to return. I speak for many of the once-Adrians when I say that the change Duke Heinrik wrought was not change his people wanted. In the years I lived there I watched the place I had started to call home become a place of fear and danger and control. Friends were forced from their homes and executed for crimes undeserving of death. I have seen this same suffering this same pain on the streets of Haense. Holy men spilling blood on blessed ground. Fathers killing daughters for the crime of feeling what I felt when I was a boy: that Adria was a place that wanted them when nowhere else did. I have watched Adrians take prisoners and threaten execution they have slain members of the church. They have forced people to speak against their will and spread lies for their own image their own gain. 

 

write all this to remind you Canonists and you Adrians that before we are Haeseni or Adrian or Petran or Minitzian or anything else we are GOD’s children. We are one race one people and to spill the blood of our enemies is to spill the blood of our brothers our sisters our mothers our sons. 

 

o ask either side to halt their attacks is foolish because neither side will accept that they have done wrong. But blood spilt for an unjust cause is blood spilt in vain. 

 

LIFE IS GOD’S GREATEST GIFT TO US AND HE WATCHES ALL OF US AND HE SEES HOW WE WASTE IT. 

 

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can not attach my name to this document because I know there will be people who try to silence me if I do but I plead that you listen and that you understand.

[__WaterFox__ 631]

"Ze realm of man vould be better off if ze men at ze top juzt dueled out zeir differenzez", Grimhildr muttered bitterly while reading the notice

[marikandaperc 1149]

"All too true."  painfully mused a former Adrian, damned to spend the rest of their life in the cold of the North, eaten by regret.

[Creator_Alan 232]

Ethan stared at the missive for quite a while. His eyes twisted until he had tunnel vision "I wanted peace once. Then I was attacked." He then burst out into a rage and began eating the paper "I DONT WANT PEACE!!! I WANT PROBLEMS ALWAYS!!!" 

[indiana105 2125]

 Ser Arthur Gant muttered to himself as he stood before the newspole. "This is the war o' our fathers, n' their fathers before them. I' will never end."

[Xarkly 12581]

1 hour ago, __WaterFox__ said:

"Ze realm of man vould be better off if ze men at ze top juzt dueled out zeir differenzez", Grimhildr muttered bitterly while reading the notice

 

"VERILY!" peeled the senile boom of Ser Vanhart, brandishing his hammer at the heavens. "FACE ME, DUKE OF ADRIA!"

 

His bellows continued until his daughter dragged him back inside. @EnderMaiashiro

[Franczhiz 4053]

"Good to know that at least someone has a similar view on the conflict as I do. To cease hostilities would work in the favor of a great many people." Caius Godwin stated.

[Arteh 1834]

Lothar d'Amaury glances at an unsigned flyer, scanning through it intently. He lets out a chuckle before glancing at the fellow Knights.

 

"It is interesting to see that the Adriatic people, once unified in their cause now grow fragmented and resentful of their liege lord. They are boastful of their ignorance to their history and ancestry but perhaps that is what they need to recall in times such as these. Do they forget the burning of Brelus? Or the sack of Barrowyck?"

 

Lothar d'Amaury would heave a sigh, performing the Lorraine cross over his chest.

 

"I pray these 'Men' find their courage. These are not the Adrians I recall reading of in the wars of Augustus."

[Optimus420 1732]

6 minutes ago, Arteh said:

Lothar d'Amaury glances at an unsigned flyer, scanning through it intently. He lets out a chuckle before glancing at the fellow Knights.

 

"It is interesting to see that the Adriatic people, once unified in their cause now grow fragmented and resentful of their liege lord. They are boastful of their ignorance to their history and ancestry but perhaps that is what they need to recall in times such as these. Do they forget the burning of Brelus? Or the sack of Barrowyck?"

 

Lothar d'Amaury would heave a sigh, performing the Lorraine cross over his chest.

 

"I pray these 'Men' find their courage. These are not the Adrians I recall reading of in the wars of Augustus."

Roland d’Amaury nodded at his sons words before signing the Lorraine, he looked to him with a proud smile, “Too right my boy, too right.” 

[Marshi 1080]

6 minutes ago, Arteh said:

Lothar d'Amaury glances at an unsigned flyer, scanning through it intently. He lets out a chuckle before glancing at the fellow Knights.

 

"It is interesting to see that the Adriatic people, once unified in their cause now grow fragmented and resentful of their liege lord. They are boastful of their ignorance to their history and ancestry but perhaps that is what they need to recall in times such as these. Do they forget the burning of Brelus? Or the sack of Barrowyck?"

 

Lothar d'Amaury would heave a sigh, performing the Lorraine cross over his chest.

 

"I pray these 'Men' find their courage. These are not the Adrians I recall reading of in the wars of Augustus."

 

Cecelia d'Amaury smiled at her brothers wise words as she too signed the Lorraine cross over her chest  "The stories made them out to be much more fierce than what we have heard in this present day...I'd much rather come face to face with those mori soldiers I keep hearing of"