A CALL TO ALL ELVENDOM

[T21_4jb 17]

Wulf reads the proclamation with a quiet recognition rather than surprise. Too many years have passed where petitions were written while graves were filled and silence preserved nothing of worth.

The Empire does not rule through justice but through fear and obedience has never safeguarded dignity or identity. On this there is little to dispute.

If reform has failed then resistance becomes inevitable. Yet those who take up arms in the name of Elvendom must remember that tyranny is not only foreign born but can be learned by any who forget why they fight.

Wulf does not answer calls lightly nor mistake fury for purpose. But neither will he pretend that survival through obedience ends in anything other than erasure.

Let those who fight do so with eyes open and with memory intact lest the rot we seek to cut away take root once more.