An Open Letter: To Disloyalty

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[!] An open letter would be published, aiming to catch attention to some specific eyes, regardless of where they might be.

To Disloyalty
 

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/cZtNHqTM6rE?si=fI-vlT7jRDwTbxis

 

Naf zwy 1st hag i Vzmey ag Hynk i 500 E.S.

 

To my most disloyal once-brother,

 

Family is the basis of our very beings, our very values to which we are all inclined. It is the notion of family that my father, ever dutiful in his role to the kingdom, took upon his shoulders with the greatest of pride. And it is thusly he who imparted to me the values that I follow to this day, those which prompted me to pursue you with an open heart and those which saw me pen the Five Maxims of Pride for the sake of our later generations. It is then to my utter dismay that you, Haus, have failed to return efforts in kind, being firstly concerned with the matters of what can be done and secondly have shown yourself determined to avoid the bridge of understanding I have so directly and forwardly chased in these recent years. It appears that our Curse of Ambition, though plightful to my own mind, has driven you to abandon all that is good in this world as our forebears once did.

As arduous and tedious as our journey has proven, none know it better than us. However, even with this shared plague I cannot afford you the time with which it would take me to understand your actions as of recent. Perhaps at one time, I could understand a yearning to be free and to subsequently set aside dutiful conduct in pursuit. Perhaps at one time, I could understand the weight wrought by the expectations of a young noble house and the alienation that comes with it and, furthermore, the desire to hide that which might draw ire. Perhaps at one time, I could understand wrath borne from decisions which do not favor yourself and appear to the outside for lack of a better term: bitterly cold. These fleeting ideas of understanding have absorbed my time, energy and empathy - and at one such time so extensively that I dare not think of what weakness might have corrupted my being had I lingered further. Even still, it is these ideas which have pre-occupied my time once again as I searched for you, as I found you, and as we shared words between ourselves which lighted my hope in a dangerous way. How foolish I have been.

 

Perhaps it is I, desperately clutching at some menial hope, who has allowed you far too much leniency. Despite being removed from home and heart, you were never doomed to be removed from family entirely through the flawed inclinations of my emotion. This is one generosity you are no longer afforded for those stretching if you no longer have the whims or means to do so. It is these whims which you have ignored, and thus ignored the persons from whom your support came as I can only assume you blinded by your own entanglement. For years, I have wondered if full fault lay within myself and while I am sure I have part in it, it is you who has continually taken what kindnesses have been offered and utilized them to whatever gain has benefitted you the most, only to continue your path of destruction irregardless of consideration.

Now your avariciousness has led you to a cliff: you have leapt. 

 

In all the time which I have endured your weeping hate, your manipulative manners, your heretical fascinations, each of these I have perceived as targeted at myself. In displays that I can only comprehend as self-destructive, I have watched as you have destroyed your body and soul against those that have warned you otherwise. However, this I can continue to endure. And yet, your latest atrocity is one I cannot leave unaddressed. It is your wife with whom I sat as she cried, and your daughters who languish in their questioning of ‘why’ that you have torn into with your fangs. History has a strange way of repeating itself when we do not take active steps to avoid it, and it is you, my entitled once-brother, who have taken not the steps of our father, but of our mother who so readily abandoned us. And even then, in the course of her own action, at least she had reason beyond a gluttony for more freedom.

For the honor of your own family, the slander you have laid openly upon my name and the slander you have dared speak of the Weiss I challenge you to a duel. Select a yourself a second: I demand satisfaction for these wrongs.

 

Your sincere once-brother,

 

Audo Weiss

[Borin 5259]

"They're really getting into that lion thing" Bishop Odo notes, scratching his chin "Anyway, when will he answer the duel challenge from Ser Andrik!? He demands duels from others, but will not take them himself! He surely cannot complain if his demand is refused..."

[ReveredOwl 5330]

"What a farcical man, demanding duels from others yet refusing my challenge to him, bah!" barked Ser Andrik.

Edited October 20, 2023 by ReveredOwl