Letter to the Royal Duma: A LILY-LIVERED PARAMOUNT
Issued by Ser Andrik var Ruthern
To the members of the Royal Duma, I serve as a Knight of the Marian Retinue, one of the last Marian Knights currently left within the Koengzem, thus it is my right to attend and sit in on Knight Table meetings, in truth I attend so that the table would have more than two attendees present. I have attended Knight table meetings for a long while as a Marian Knight and none have took issue with me doing so, I had taken a squire from this meeting and taught them as a Marian Squire, but they would later become a Crow squire after the Retinues reformation. I am sure you are all aware that Ser Audo Weiss shall soon go through the ritual of the Drowning of the Blades, a ritual that would elevated him to the position of Knight Paramount. A Knight Paramount must have strong conviction, courage and must be able to defend their words with steel. Ser Audo Weiss is a lily-livered imbecile who was just recently demoted in the Brotherhood of Saint Karl for the enslavement of a fellow soldier, amongst other things.
I had previously had altercations with Ser Audo Weiss who has routinely questioned my honour and commitment to the Crown and Koengzem to which I am sworn, I have challenged him to a duel once before only to be met with an abrupt refusal from my fellow Knight; he gave in after public ridicule over such cowardice. Once more have I been slighted by Ser Audo, a Knight who has previously been the subject of great conversation on the Knights Table for cowardice, he claimed that I had dishonoured myself and that I was no true Knight as I refused to sit on the Knights Table, as I am a Marian Knight. Once more did Ser Audo refuse my challenge to duel, but it brings heavier doubt onto his character now that he is to become our next Knight Paramount. It is my desire for the Royal Duma to summon Ser Audo, before his Drowning of the Blades ritual and question him over his dishonour and cowardice. With a nation in the grip of a constant winter storm and the encroaching threat of the Aaunish and their Veletzian hounds, we can not have a Knight Paramount whose cowardice is so evident, leading the next generation of Knights, lest we end up with a laughable gaggle of lap dogs rather than a pack of ferocious wolves.
Ser Andrik var Ruthern