The Crystalline Pact

[JTMedea 495]

 

 

 

 

Issued 14th of The Deep cold, Year 171 of the Second Age

 

 

ARTICLE I: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 

I. The City-State of Hohkmat acknowledges the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Vikela, and the right to govern their lands. Inversely, the Kingdom of Vikela acknowledges the City-State of Hohkmat’s right to govern within the bounds of their state.

 

ARTICLE II: ACADEMIC EXCHANGE

 

I. The City-State of Hohkmat and the Kingdom of Vikela (Henceforth referred to as ‘the signatories’) agree to the exchange of magical goods and knowledge to further the academic progress of both states, specifically within the realms of the arcane and the alchemical. 

 

II. The signatories will encourage tutelage in arcane and alchemical arts across borders, allowing free passage to teachers and students between both states. Students from the Kingdom of Vikela will be allowed and encouraged to seek tutelage in the City State of Hohkmat, and inversely, the same will be afforded to students of Hohkmat to the Kingdom of Vikela.

 

III. Both signatories are permitted to request copies of books from the other signatory’s libraries, to fill gaps of knowledge within their own. These requests will be processed and assessed through each state’s Head Librarian.

 

IV. The signatories will encourage attendance to academic events hosted by either state, such as classes, demonstrations, and the creations of magical artifacts.

 

V. The signatories will agree to assist one another where possible, in the creation of new magical artifacts and feats.

 

ARTICLE III: TRADE

 

I. Alongside encouraging the exchange of arcane goods, the signatories will promote all forms of trade between states. Merchants from each signatory will be allowed free passage and a right to advertise their goods in the other’s state. 

 

II. Both signatories will receive a tax-free market stall of their choice in the other’s territory, which will remain untaxed unless the agreement is found to be terminated.

 

ARTICLE IV: COOPERATION & APOSTASY

 

I. The signatories mutually acknowledge the threat that dark, infernal, and necromantic beings pose against the people of Aevos, as well as the threat of rogue magi and wielders of forbidden magic (All henceforth collectively referred to as ‘apostates’). Both signatories pledge their full efforts to seek out and destroy these threats where they are discovered.

 

II. The signatories agree to share information regarding the possible locations and operations of apostates, and to provide mutual assistance regarding their extermination. Hohkmat’s Chamber of Fire will seek to work with the Kingdom of Vikela’s military forces in the event of an apostate threat on either state, provided this does not contradict the City-State of Hohkmat’s existing agreement with the Commonwealth of the Petra.

 

III. The signatories agree to communicate freely regarding suspicions of apostate creatures or sorcerers within the other’s state, encouraging and collaborating on investigations to root out infiltrators.

 

IV. Any sorcerer of Hohkmat or citizen of Vikela discovered as an apostate in the other’s state will be extradited back to their state of origin for trial.

 

V. The signatories will also share information on the creation and location of any Voidal Tears, and will provide mutual assistance to each other in closing these rifts in the Veil. 

 

ARTICLE V: DURATION & TERMINATION

 

I. This agreement will go into effect immediately upon signing, and will last until either: 

A. One of the two parties chooses to break the agreement, requiring a year of advance notice before the pact is terminated.

B. The City-State of Hohkmat gains independence and is no longer considered a vassal of the Commonwealth of the Petra. Upon this, the signatories will reconvene to forge a new pact, with the possibility of defensive and non-aggression agreements being considered.

 

 

GRAND-MAGISTER, Sorcerer-King, Hierophant of the Mysteries,

Master of the Ziggurat of Hohkmat

 

Viscount of Stormont, Baron of Raonòir, Seat of Nortrebanc, Court Mage of the River Court of the Commonwealth, Deputy Speaker of the Garmont Assembly of the Petra, and Representative for the Sorcerous State of Hohkmat

 

SOVRÈN MAJESTÉ, Reine Medea Amaranta Viola De Astrea,

The Queen of Vikela, La Violetta

 

TÈT MINISTER OF MAJI, Member of the Crystal Court, Lord Nepir ‘Wolfguard’ 

[StingyParrot 132]

"Neat. Good thing Hohkmat's doing all this diplomacy an' stuff. Otherwise we'd probably be raided sooner than not.  . ." Muses Arakawa, from within the attic of his home in Hohkmat. Nearby, sitting in a comfortable nest, sits his pet chicken, opening its beak as his master speaks. "Jus' wish I could've been there." 

[Minuvas 2884]

"Excellent.." Remarks Razad, tinkering on a creating a gift for his new found friends in Vikela

[Rhettthecoldone 62]

Whistling away within his kitchen stood Lord-Aspirant, Faeran of Hohkmat. A snowy white owl made a sudden stop through its flight around Vallagne, laying a missive specifically at the open windowsill of Faeran’s home.

 

The dark elven man reached for this rolled up missive, peering onto it curiously. “Well tha’s jus’ great!”

 

The snowy owl took off into the sky after its reward of a mouse.

[Tigergiri 2866]

Andria sitting down looking over the nature and crystallized city a smirk on her face, dabbing her quill to ink and place a swift little check mark next to a name.

[Turbo_Dog 1432]

Spuds read the missive out by a hill with a sled. Seeing it was all good news he smiled and got on the sled to head down the hill “Vikela soars once…” the sled would pick up speed as he spoke “AAGGGAAAAAAAAIINNNNNNN!” His words caught in the wind drifted off as the Musin zoomed down that hill 

Edited March 13 by Turbo_Dog