TO LADY TRUTHFUL

[kuerbis 3802]

 

Issued and averred by the office of the

IMPERIAL CROWN

 

 

✠ TO THE ONE WHO CALLS HERSELF ‘LADY TRUTHFUL’;

 

Your crimes are plentiful; slander against the Imperial Family warrants execution. I am giving you one chance to redeem yourself. I have apprehended one of your paperboys. 

Present yourself to me in the Imperial Barracks before the Saint Hour ends, or I shall have his hands removed.

 

AVE IMPERIUM!

 

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H V M A N I T A S    I N V I C T A

“Für Gott und Kaiser,”

 

• HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY, Valentiná of Asturias, By the Grace of GOD, Sanctus Imperatrix Mundi, Empress of Azuras and of all Mankind, forever August, Queen of Burgundy, Oren, Renatus, Marna, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, Seventis, Santegia, Mardon, Vandoria and the Westerlands, Duchess of the Crownlands, Avar, Cascadia, Aenus, Erochland, Grense, Helena, Istria, Kingston, Krajia, Middelan, Reutov and Sunholdt, Countess of Ager, Cantal, Carolustadt, Felsen and Rittersberg, Baroness of Dragonspeak and Senntisten, Defender of the Faith, Protector of All Men, Heartlanders, etcetera.

DOMINVS VOLVIT, SIC FACTVM EST

 

[DISCOLIQUID 2701]

"Nice," says a creature without morals, who had been following gossip papers in Burgundy since before they were accursed by shadow. They shake the paper with a dark interest, but none of their grim peers seem to care about their woeful hyperfixation.

[Terry 2680]

"Hm. They are certainly more... thorough, then Haense ever was about the 'Hearsay of Hanseti-Ruska'..." Spoke Ser Sigmar, from his castle in the Northern reaches of Norland.

[LADY TRUTHFUL 277]

To my most devoted reader,
 

Release the child. The news-children have nothing to do with my name, nor what I write about. You cut off a child's hands for nothing but to present yourself as a cruel woman. My papers might offend you and your courtiers, but be well aware, I shall seep into your nightmares. If you go out of your way to harm the innocent, my ink will write the truth of who you really are.

Be forewarned, my dear Valentina, I am no coward. Not when it comes to speaking my truth, after all.

Fare thee well,
Lady Truthful