IN LIGHT OF RECENT FAILURES

[Knight of Elken 488]

 

TO HIS ROYAL MAJESTY ALEKSANDR II,
6th of Snow's Maiden, 168th Year of the Second Age
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With utmost respect and sincere reverence do I extend this open letter to His Royal Majesty @Mio, Her Royal Majesty @sarahbarah, and the rest of Your Royal Family. I wish You unyielding health and spirits indomitable upon Your triumphant return and Her Royal Majesty’s graceful retirement from the courts. May peace, progress, and prosperity boundless in nature grace Your reigns endlessly.

 

I grow less a stranger to Your beautiful country, people, and courts with each passing day. My heart boasts deep love for this Kingdom, with its honorable, trustworthy people. For within, I have found a place to call home. In this light, I humbly seek audience with His Royal Majesty, Her Royal Majesty, and any individual deemed appropriate. For no longer am I able to withhold my silenced voice regarding the egregious defeats under the leadership of the Lord Marshal Ser Leonid Kortrevich @erictafoya in combatting the Shadow Harrower menace whom demonically parades, harasses, and murders so freely in the country I love.

 

To establish my position, and create some intention of good faith, one cannot write a letter such as this without giving due credit. The burden shouldered by Your Lord Marshal in combatting the monstrous Shadow Harrowers besieging Castle Morteskvan is a responsibility akin to bearing the mountains upon one’s shoulders, and bears mental duress equal in measure. Efforts to shoulder this responsibility are admirable. Yet in such a light, it is equally imperative that we not turn our eyes blind to the outcome of the Lord Marshal's recent operations: failure.

 

 

Failures occur in warfare. Men will always die. 

 

Yet never in my four hundred years have I appallingly witnessed the lifeless bodies of my comrades shot out of catapults like ammunition.

 

 

It was of my own volition in which I painstakingly discovered key vulnerabilities in the enemy’s defenses, corroborated by Ser Audo Weiss the Raven @Frostdrop1(who bears no involvement in this correspondence). Consider then the dismay that befell me upon the telling of the battle plans for Operation Bloody Gate which blatantly disregarded these vulnerabilities. In disregarding this critical intelligence, Your forces were directed by the Lord Marshal to instead engage the enemy up an icy mountain fraught with traps (ones against which I had detected, and vehemently cautioned). Despite my warnings, the Lord Marshal recklessly ordered Your army to charge directly through this deadly path. The disastrous assault bore grave fruit, and saw many of Your army beset by pitfalls, spike traps, and ultimately consumed by an avalanche orchestrated by Tyr, the enemy. My comrades and myself narrowly avoided being consumed by the mountain, whilst suffering a now embarrassing third retreat from an enemy whom should have been easily defeated. I count myself fortunate that the honor and lives of the valiant men and women under my command, and myself, were not taken by snow.
 

It is my profound concern that further avoidable misfortunes are to be shouldered by my beloved countrymen. Whether that is being launched from a catapult like Venerable Armsman Vasili Vanrov @Helios_ (may GOD rest his venerable soul), capture and vicious execution like Valorous Dagfinn the Squire @Youngie5500(may GOD rest his valorous soul), succumbing to an avalanche as in Operation Bloody Gate, or even fates worse than what my imagination can produce.

 

It is not my intent to create slander.

It is not my intent to play politics. 

Only to rip out this thorn from our sides,

and to ensure peace unending.

 

I seek no blood from Your Lord Marshal. I believe that he is a good man with a good heart, and no quarrel do I seek. Yet I cannot remain silent when he has displayed a keen disregard for the safety of Your troops, my comrades, produces flawed battle plans ending in consistent defeat, and has so far made no progress in his responsibility to dispose of these animals. The continued deployment of the Lord Marshal’s plans, developed without critical intelligence in mind, will see avoidable follies bear more grave fruit and allow for the persistence of the enemy.
 

I strive to express to You my well-founded concerns. Should You give my humble self the honor of Your presence, it is my wish to present and explore solutions which myself and my own counsel have produced. In an extension of good faith, should You permit such a meeting, it is my hope Your Lord Marshal will be in attendance so that he might provide what input he has, as well as say what he will to me. It is my hope You will grant me the honor of speaking man to man. For You will find that my way brings fire, steel and death to the enemies of Your Kingdom.

 

 

Signed,

 

Greiret Malviser Elverhilin-Finnigan-Faean
Governor of the Province of Esterwick, Immortal of the Kingdom of Gladewynn, Annilir of Malin’s Virarim,
Supreme Battlemage of the Gladewynn Company, Knight-Enchanter of the Enchantry
and Partiarch of the Elverhilin Family

 

 

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love u eric i hope there are no hard feelings <3

 

 

[Borin 5259]

"Uh? Anyone else see an ELF wrote this? They should be ignored! The HUMAN marshal surely knows what he's on about!" Brother Ninnias says to his good HUMAN friends

[AmericanSniper52 225]

"Finally, someone with intelligence calls out the idiocy and failings of haensetti strategy. They marched us into hellfire and an obvious trap" an elven warrior says as he reads the missive, folding it into his pocket for safekeeping "perhaps I should meet this Greiret".

[ScreamingDingo 16990]

“Remember the atrocities of Boomhill and the Haensian Cannibalism of the poor travellers!”

 

Rudolph, a descendant of the Boomhill Mining Company laments over the news of Haense military cruelty and brutality.

[Nooblius 5794]

2 hours ago, Knight of Elken said:

Immortal of the Kingdom of Gladewynn

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I thought realm applications were put on hold? Where on the map is Gladewynn

 

[ichigomaster98 634]

The Laird of Grenzstadt finds the letter a bit late in their stack of letters to read, busy making preparations to fight the enemy and putting off reading in general. "I was there to see the battering ram explode outside the enemy fort, and for the Haensers to run away. It was my cannon that opened the enemy fort, and it was my fellow Norlanders which saved Leonid and others from certain death more than once that fight. I have never seen an assault conducted so poorly, especially when there was already a weakness in the wall exploited just a few months before by Vikela that would have required no siege equipment and was easy to find." A living doll rushes past to bring various writing supplies, before sitting down to begin writing a letter. "I was there to see Greiret caution Leonid of the obvious snow trap, and for Leonid to order a cavalry charge uphill in deep snow and pitfalls into a prepared mounted enemy. I knew that assault would go poorly when I saw a battering ram there too." With a hand motion the living doll hurries off to the aviary. "Though it's not just Leonid's fault, there are plenty of other commanders who have made repeated disastrous calls that killed a majority of their men."

An open addition is distributed along with the letter above via bird with a simple message:

"Iosefka Anarórë, Dragonslayer Laird of Grenzstadt, for commander. For a victory, finally."

[Wizry 358]

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