AND NO MORE

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AND NO MORE

FROM THE HAND OF THE FLEPIRKNIGHT

FROM THE HAND OF THE GAOLED

FROM THE HAND OF THE HERMIT

ILDRIUNN LUCIEN ALDRICSON

	OPENING PRAYER   FROM THE VENERABLE FATHER PACO DO I RECITE THIS PRAYER TO SAINT-KING CAIUS OF THE WESTERLANDS. May the Creator protect us And in turn we protect others Let Him be our shield, So that we may be His hammer, ridding this world of darkness. He who stands with me shall be my brother,  AMEN   CONCLUDING REMARKS TO THE SCHISMATICS

 

To the ‘Enlightened Mind’, I thank you dearly for your response. However, I must point out your copious flaws not only in thinking, but in logic. For it is both in thinking and in logic that the truth may be found of any source, the Scrolls included.

 

I find it remarkable that you would deem me a man ‘blinded’ by Raguel’s arrival when I am a man conversely dismissed by the Mother Church. In many ways, we are quite similar, but merely on different steps of the same path. I too, was once a heretic, and appealed to the Curia, to its members, and to the Pontiff to the redemption of the kobolds. Know this, that every missive I must pen to you, is ten lashings from Adelmar von Kanunsburg that I endure further. Perhaps now it shall be twenty. I do this out of pure devotion to my faith, at my own peril.

I have rebuked these claims, but I am punished for it all the same. I invite you to, if you fear for your life, still (which you should not, because if your cause is true, then you will find eternal salvation in the Skies), come to Lemonhill and rend yourself for penance when you see the error in your ways.

 

Your main rebuttals to my points consist simply of discrediting me as an opponent in debate. And, in doing this, you abandon the debate altogether, and instead focus on your opponent as the target of your points. I invite you, instead, to challenge the logic in my arguments.

 

A point that is unfalsifiable is a point that should not, and cannot be raised in argument. You can claim I am ‘blinded’, as you say, by the Saint Raguel, to the same extent I can claim you are being controlled by a cabal of Ibleesian mind magi. Alas, Raguel has not appeared to me in dreams since slaying Lanre Cerusil, and I have not laid eyes upon him since his appearance in Balian. On the other hand, you refuse to let an Army of GOD enter Silasia to check for said Ibleesian mind cabal!

 

I hope then, you see my frustration. I have engaged in theological debate with the great minds of our Mother Church’s current generation, and I have thoroughly enjoyed them, both in outcome and in processu. I had hoped for the same with you. I never approach a debate with closed mindedness. After all, it is through challenging your faith that you strengthen it.

 

In hopes that this can alleviate your struggles, I will be highlighting the good deeds done by St. Raguel, and from there substantiate the rest of my arguments so they are more easily understood, and much less aggressive than they were in the first missive I penned. Firstly, Saint Raguel descended to slay Lanre Cerusil after he himself murdered the late Pontiff Sixtus VI. He tracked him down as Lanre fled through the forest, and impaled the voidal lich through the chest. 

 

Then, he bestowed upon the then Cardinal Callahan, and Caius-Brandt, two holy relics, the second of which I was witness to its bequeathment: the holy grail, used to baptize Cardinal Clover (which is no doubt one reason she has become the pious cardinal she is today), and the two scepters of Clement and Evaristus.

 

Beyond this, he has appeared numerous times to give counsel and aid the Canonist. For instance, in my pursuit of Stein, I raised my hand to navigate with the north star, and suddenly then a shooting star appeared to cut across my palm, flame bleeding in its wake. Admittedly, this is one unfalsifiable truth, the very same that I criticized you for referencing earlier on. I hope my honor as a knight, that I do swear to its truth here, is enough to convince you.

 

Though I know not the full mechanisms behind them, I know he too appeared to Saint Gerard, former grandmaster of my own former ilk, the Judites. He was a man, I hear, of immense zeal, who died in combat against an Ibleesian hellknight that I have yet had the pleasure of casting down.

 

Then, of course, the more recent, and much more infamous appearances - Aaun and Hohkmat. The benevolence of these actions is no doubt questionable. After all, the scrolls do teach mercy, acceptance, and redemption of the heathen, rather than the outright execution. But, as I have said before, and I will reiterate now, not only did the citizens of both know of their immolation baptism in advance, they too knew that if they were pure of spirit, that the mercyflame would not harm them. A dead Hohkmati is never a death I would mourn anyway. VERY few, if any, died.

 

Alas, for the rest of your argument, you seem to partake in the very thing you criticize me for: attacks on character. Though, as the author, I will be the first to admit that my own letter was quite targeted and aggressive, I phrased it in such a way that my questions toward you would be most easy to answer and recognise. So, I will rephrase once more:

 

• What deception has Raguel brought?
• Do you rebuke St. Pius of Sutica? Do you rebuke the Blessed Radovid? Do you rebuke the First Sky? For, your dismissal of Lurak and Caurost would suggest such.
• Were you ever ordained as a priest, if so, by who?
• What rite do you claim? How, or why, have you swapped between a traditionalist and an Owynist view?
• How are you not schismatics?

 

I must concede that there are several (around 3, at my latest count) sources pushing this agenda out from Silasia. I apologize, again,  if I myself have conflated your voice with the louder voices of others. Alas, in the same way that you have questioned the intent of my writings, I question the intent of yours.

 

Where do you write from? What is your name - why use a pseudonym? I do not use a pseudonym, for my words are mine, to be attributed to my hand. You lack excessively in textual evidence and rapport; your entire argument is constructed around one passage in a series of ramblings only half of Canondom even accepts as legitimate. The incumbent pontificate does not accept it as legitimate. Your interpretation seems to be largely driven by bias. 

 

You have gone into your readings wanting a certain outcome from your interpretation, and so your interpretation is thus inherently subjective. Again, I suggest you approach all arguments with open mindedness, rather than reducing my claims against you to libel.

 

This will be my last missive on this matter, as the debate seems to have largely lost steam, and your ineffective responses do not warrant enough of a write for me to be lashed ten times by Adelmar. Wounds do not heal very quickly in damp, dark dungeons.

 

HOLY SER

‘APSINTHION’

THE FLEPIRKNIGHT

 

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Spoiler

per crevl's request tldr:
- please address my points

- stop ad hominem

- no more slop

- stop hating on me madone

 

[MadOne 4945]

Adelmar von Kanunsberg, the turnkey upon finding that Lukas had been writing his missives on his toilet paper with charcoal to be smuggled out, beats the crap out of Lukas once more, gets a funnel, and makes Lukas drink water until he throws up.