THE DECLARATION OF BRIDGEMAS

[Caranthir_ 2533]

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T H E   D E C L A R A T I O N   O F
B R I D G E M A S

 

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WHEREAS, it hath pleased Almighty God to return His servant and Our Sovereign  E D M U N D  to us, His loyal people, who hath tended to the Common Weal for sundry months, and by whose return the Royal Crown of this United Kingdom of Aaun rightfully rests again on His Head according to the divers Law of the Royal House of Alstion and Magna Charta Libertatum of this Our United Kingdom.

 

We are grateful for and humbly thank those divers men and women, at home and abroad, who came to Our aid in Our Moment of Peril, when We were brutally attacked by wicked actors, and incapacitated to Our present state, which We regret deeply and will never forget; to those who did lend their swords, abilities, minds and hearts to Us in Our Moment of Peril, Our Realm owes you a debt deeper than it can ever hope to repay.

 

And We further have come of an Age where we commit great thought, intrinsic and extrinsic, as to the Design of Our Almighty Lord God, to whom all Kings owe their Crowns, in the death of Our noble Father the most Venerable Prince Henry, Our early ascension to the Crown of Our forefathers, the long Regency of His Holiness the Pontiff, Our Royal Mother, Princely Uncle, Noble Aunt, and other Right Honourable Officers, the Great Troubles that has been so wantonly diffused through Our Realm, and to Our current incapacities. 

 

We have been taught the Virtues, and We stand on the shoulders of giants who weave the human tapestry and imbue it with their zealotry; and further We follow in their example to, before anything, prize Peace and Piety.

 

We, therefore, with Royal Right and certain knowledge in Our Time Asleep, do by mere motion dismiss again the recently formed Regency, and assisted by Our People, and with other numbers of Gentlemen and Ladies, command Our Government to at once formulate, distribute, and deliver a Conference of Our brotherly and sisterly Sovereign’s abroad to make between us a permanent settlement.

 

So I find that you are strict in your arms, but lax in your prayers. But to pray is to gird the spirit. The hand of God is the greatest weapon to bear, and His word is the paramount strategy. There can be no laxity in faith for any reason, not war nor peace, not wealth nor poverty. The Lord lasts through all adversities, for He is their source and their remedy—without Him, they are uncured.

 (Spirit 2:11-14) 

 

And We also know that just as there cannot be a setting of the Sun without a rising of the Moon, there cannot be true peace without tangible consequences; We, therefore, with Our certain knowledge coming from Our Time Asleep, declare that We shall join Our forces to War against those who strike the first blow, to those who subvert Our Conference in bad faith; for in Our time there shall always be peace, as it has been ordained by Almighty God and delivered to Us, His servant in this mortal and transient world.

 

And We further exhort all Our People’s into a spirit of Peace, unflinchingly weathering this present storm, which We know will pass, which must always pass, as all things must in this transient and finite world, for what is this world but a lively image in which God shows and declares himself; for although He is invisible, He shows himself by His Works, and to that end we should worship him.

 

And We should further not break His Laws, or do injury to His ordained arrangement of Our Constitution; We exhort all Our People’s to the Just delivery of the Common Weal, and We further reaffirm Our commitment to the three precepts; that is to say, the Right to Life, the Right to Liberty, and the Right to Trial.

 

The vast multitude of creatures, the Sun and the Moon, and all the host of the Skies are the proofs of His Almighty Works, and their multitudinal relationship to each other are evidently the acts of His Sovereign Wisdom; and knowing that We shall all soon return to our Almighty Lord God, let us not spend the years of our prime in contempt of our fellow man, and instead let us be devoted to the study of His Word and His Demonstrable Works, which can only ever be for the public good.

 

And We know that Our Royal Grandsire, the King James of Glorious Memory, did also believe in a stoical attitude to strife, and We know that Our aforesaid Royal Grandfather acted forever and only in the spirit of Peace and Piety; His example is unerringly Good, and We shall act in His steps; and so We command Our Government at once to create new licence for Our Royal City, which We further grant, for Us and Our Heirs and Successors, the name Jacob.

 

We, therefore, make peace with Our lot, and act immediately to see that His Word is reaffirmed by His Vicars; that is to say, We grant as donation the land immediately east of the Temple of Exalted Godfrey, extending for certain distance in the said direction, to Our Holy Mother Church, to be occupied as masters of their own destiny for as long as there may be a Holy See there and reaffirmed with each successive High Pontiff; and We do further grant the personage of the High Pontiff to be sacred and inviolable, and that any attempt against their person or incitement to commit the aforesaid is punishable as if it were an attempt or incitement against Us; and We do further grant that the dignitaries of the Pontifical Court will always be admitted through the territory of Our Realm, and those said dignitaries if they be Cardinals are to be given honours that impede them from any and all interference, and further that if they shall reside within the Royal City of Jacob then they will also enjoy all citizenship thereof; as a consequence of this donation, which must be first negotiated and ratified by Our constitution to take effect, We commit Ourself to further such agreements.

 

We pray to Almighty God, by whose great gifts Kings do reign, to bless the Our Realm and to give Us the fortitude to suffer these wicked days and see them through with kindness and Our Better Nature intact.

 

Given at the Hand of Horen on the seventh of Tobias’s Bounty in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two.

 

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BE IT DECLARED by the King’s Majesty, and by the consent of the Estates, in this Royal Diet assembled;

In witness whereof We have signed this Declaration at the Hand of Horen on the seventh of Tobias’s Bounty in the fifteenth year of Our reign.

 

We, therefore, the Lords of this Realm, do now hereby with one voice publish and proclaim our resolve to the cause of Peace, but with fortitude to the last resort of War, following in the example of our late Sovereign’s of Glorious Memory, and our  K I N G   E D M U N D, by Grace of God  K I N G   O F   T H E   U N I T E D  K I N G D O M  O F  A A U N; to whom we do give all humble affection true allegiance and unwavering obedience.

 

AS THE ESTATES,

 

His Serene Highness, Ferdinand Alexander Barclay

Großfürst von Minitz, GMSTSR, Viscount of Tucay, Baron of Hussen, Lord of Durres, Warden of the Franklands

His Highness, Heinrich II Lothar von Alstreim

Prince of Merryweather and the Rhine, Landgrave of Alstreim, Baron of Corwinsburg, Lord of Blackwater and LORD VANDALORE

 

His Grace, János Mátyás Ivanovich

Duke of Styria, Voivode of Vaška, Count of Pravets, Baron of Vsensk, and Godansk, Lord of Andregrad, Hetman of the Host of St. Arpad, Keeper of the Hussariya, Protector of Raev and the Vaškan Steppe

 

His Highness, Richard Leonus Stassion

Margrave of Stassion, Baron of Renzfeld, Lord of Fredericksburg, Protector of the Marchlands

 

His Lordship, Olivier Dieuxmont de Rosius

Margrave of High Peak, Count of Beaufoy and Arentaniebourg, Baron of Rosius, Lord of Mont Louis, Lord Commander of the Rose Guard and Protector of Arentania

 

Her Ladyship, Marlene Konstancja von Reuss

Margravine-Consort of Velen, Countess-Consort of Revedin and Cantal, Baroness-Consort of Mons Velena and Alsace, Defender of the Velenic Peoples

 

AS THE LORDS,

 

His Lordship, Emilio Varoche

Baron of Napoliza, Vice-Chancellor of Aaun, Magistrate of Whitespire

 

His Lordship, Fernand Auguste de Lewes

Baron of Virdain, Lord Chancellor of Aaun, Master of Augmentations

His Lordship, Ser Leopold Alexander Haverlock

Baron of Gotfridcher, Count of Talentine, Lord Captain of the Whitespire City Watch, Knight of the Circle of Saint Godwin

 

His Lordship, Fumetsu Renshin

Daimyo of Clan Renshin, Keeper of the Crane’s Crest

 

The Right Honourable, Ser Morgan of Angren

Knight of Lemon Hill

 

‘STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY’

TANDEM TRIUMPHANS

Ends.

[Olox_ 4318]

Heinrich II Lothar signed the document in good faith.

[Sebbysc 744]

With his King now awake, Ser Leopold could rest easy that night. A new smile had been brought to his face. "Ave Edmund!"

 

[HIGH_FIRE 5490]

After coming out of a meeting with His Majesty Sibyl would gaze over the missive. Immediately she would be apalled, turning to her father as she showed it. "I appreciate his Majesty wishing for peace, but for Stassion, the very people who have caused a significant portion of this, to sign it? Foolish I dare say." She'd move to a seat and shake her head "You cannot start a battle and immediately declare yourself a peacekeeper."

[ratlordmagic 1484]

Ser Waclaw Jazlowicki frowned as he read the declaration. "For sure a noble gesture by his Highness, but Stassion has already shed innocent blood. We have an aggressor already, yet not an action being taken to discipline them."

[Franczhiz 4437]

"Did they forget about the innocent Aaunite by the name of Louis Dresnay being slaughtered? By the King of Hanseti-Ruska himself as well.." A Veletzian man wondered, scratching his chin as he read such a declaration.

 

"Clearly there is already an aggressor who made his intention very clear. Stassion was right to get involved, one of theirs got murdered, therefore I ask the question; who drew the sword first in terms of instigating conflict? The King of Hanseti-Ruska or those who want to avenge the death of a fallen comrade?"

[Tide1 4535]

Hendrik contacts his correspondent in Stassion and is not so surprised to find that not a single representative of theirs was present at the signing of this document.

[Fishy 2709]

"A prayer for peace." Morgan says, signing the document.

[ErosTea 1084]

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Charlotte Henrietta signs the lorraine at the end of her grand-nephew's great slumber. "Blessed be, the line of Alstion is strong!"

[Enlightenment 2295]

Emilio Varoche signed the documents, as the King had bribed the Illatian lord with cannolis