UNYIELDING SUPPORT OF ANCIENT TRADITION

[Ankan 2875]

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“From the beginning of Haelun’or, we have been guided by example. The first Maheral, our haelun, instilled in us the ideals of a perfect society. The second truly taught us the importance of cunning with his enigmatic riddles. The third with laws and books guided us with unmatched wisdom, building a state in which the meritorious became strong. Kalenz reminded us of the need to take care in the upkeep of our blessed society. Iatrilemar’s retirement and the subsequent vacancy brought to attention again the need to keep ourselves untainted. The following Maherals, those whom had declared themselves most pure, allowed their powers to be checked by various weaklings and impures, and, finally, allowed our state to be destroyed by those same ‘ata.

A coalition of the pure has decided such a state, one of infidelity, tormented inactivity, and ultimately, of weakness, can no longer stand.”

Malaurir Dimaethor Visaj as he dissolved the Sohaership and dismissed the Silver Council

 

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The ultimate authority of the Maheral has a strong precedent set in the very foundation of our Motherland. The Maheral is Most Blessed, until they simply no longer are. The sacred position has passed from our haelun Larihei to thirty-two mali’thill, who in turn shaped and safeguarded our society, often in ways not understood in their own time.

To see the Maheral act decisively in times of uncertainty, to remove dysfunction where it festers, is not a matter for condemnation, but for praise. The Maheral alone holds the absolute authority to act to preserve when others fail. 

But even so, the mali’thill are not without minds of our own. It is not disloyal to reflect upon our current course with apprehension. To place our Motherland and her fate under the thumb of foreign powers; be it valah canonist monarchs or their anointed Elven princes, invites questions that any true mali’thill must ask. We do not bow.

The Accord of Prosperity, as it was named, while no doubt signed by our former Maheral, Malaurir Avern’dionne Fi’talareh, to preserve life, has concerned many among our people. Ancient tradition demands of us to put trust in that the Maheral acts with wisdom, as our ancestors did when they once joined Larihei in her exile, fleeing from the old tyranny of Malinor. While countless lesser Elven princedoms have risen and fell, the Human Empires have united and divided, our ancient system of the Maheralship has led the mali'thill to centuries of continuity regardless of the troubles we have endured.

Let no mali’thill despair, for so long as our ideals remain alive, Haelun’or endures, beyond regimes, beyond treaties. Keep faith in the Maheral Kolvar Uradir to guide our people to security and prosperity; the Thirty-second Maheral, in Modern Succession.

Celebrate the passing of the torch together with the Blessed Populace ahead of Second Public Assembly later this Elven year.

[[Saturday the 31th of May, 22:00 CEST/4 PM EDT]]

 

maehr’sae hiylun’ehya

Octavius Visaj-Taharion’onn

 

[Widu 536]

Liewyn glides to his oaken desk, laying two vellum scrolls before him. With a steady hand, he scribbles his signature and presses the silvered Miravaris sigil into the warm wax of the first, murmuring, “To Maheral Uradir, may his wisdom guide us onto the path of Larihei.” He repeats the motion on the second, “To Malaurir Arasdir, his presence would be most welcome at the Visaj’s public assembly.” Rising, he moves to the arched window where two trained courier pigeons are waiting.