Kaelan placed his hands behind his back, looking to the Alluin and nodding his head in respect to the competition that had arisen.
”Alluin is an excellent candidate for the position, this much is clear. He is a distinguished Sillumir who served under myself as a Tahorren in charge of el’cihis defenses and managing the gates. A job he performed exceptionally. He was also responsible for training Sillumiran new to our ranks, I am sure he would make an excellent Okarir’tir. Which is why I encourage the competition, I wish you the best of luck, mal’onn. Let there be no hard feelings on the new Okarir’tir, whoever it may be.”
Kaelan then looked over towards Elahern, addressing the individual who had served the el’cihi as an Okarir’tir, despite his tenure being relatively short.
”By all means, mister Elahern, I encourage debate and conversation regarding my candidacy. Unfortunately my helmet masks any facial expression I may have, though rest assured, I did not view any war as a ‘good’ thing. Rather, I actively advocated against it. As you will find here.” says, producing a piece of parchment regarding his ‘addressing to the Sillumir’. https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/186849-the-sillumirans-thoughts/
”On the contrary, I do wholeheartedly believe that a restructuring is needed, for the prosperity of maehr’sae hiylun’ehya. From my conversations with our ‘thill, it would appear that some sort of reform would be needed to properly educate our mal’onn on how to conduct their duties effectively and efficiently. I have trained for el’Sillumiran my entire life, when I came to el’cihi similar thoughts and doubts on my ability were raised. But through hard work and camaraderie all doubts were put aside, it is ne secret that some had doubted some of our proceedings but once again, ne feedback or criticisms came from our active Sillumir with the exception of some firmly against the anonymity I had in place.
Allow me to put into perspective this.
One of our Sillumir conducts an arrest for murder, or has disgruntled an outsider who seeks revenge. Without their anonymity they place their talonn’ii and own lives at risk. Why? Why? Would I allow my weeping blades to be judged by the ‘thill for the actions they commit to keep Haelun’or safe? Make ne mistake, it happens. Do I want their purity questions for the service they conduct? Ne. This is why the existing Sillumir does not work.
Matters of military aside, for an Okarir’tir to uphold the law is paramount. I am a close pupil of the Silver Law and have exercised it multiple times in the past against would be criminals of the state.
Anybody who had served with me knows that any and all individual suspected of a crime was only ever arrested if sufficient evidence came to be, ensuring a full and proper investigation had taken place to ensure a fair trial.
Strangely enough however, I have noticed several investigations which were taking place before my initial removal for advocating against war have since vanished from our archiving. Which begs the question, were these files removed to protect a ‘thill guilty of some hideous crime or was it down to poor administration?
Over and out to you.