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THE DEATH OF FRANCISCO ALTAMIRANO OF HYSPIA (A Hyspian Depiction of the Cardinal) Moments Before Capture, The Cardinal would be walking the road to eastfleet, towards the trees after exiting the city of Providence before he was stopped by armed men, who were already robbing Father Almire. The Cardinal would keep a calm demeanor around him as he always did when faced with danger. The Cardinal would calmly and simply do as the robbers asked, getting on his hands and knees as they ordered. When one of the men tried to tie him up, he would break free and begin to run, he would run through the Orenian country side as the robber chased him. When the Cardinal got to the coast, he was stopped by the robber and tied up. Capture, The Cardinal would be put on a boat and taken around Almaris, the robber didn't seem to understand where he was going, going around Haense and Oren many a time. The robber even went to the Barclay keep and Karosgrad's borders a couple of times. Francisco would scream for help near Haense's ships, to no avail. Once the cardinal and the robber reached the shore's near Norland, he would be gagged, prohibiting him from speaking. The Cardinal would close his eyes after being gagged, deep in thought, praying before he was brought into Nueva Tierra, the town he called a 'perversion of Hyspian ideals'. Final Moments, Francisco would be brought to the Red King of Hyspia, Antonio I of House de Rivera. He would be brought upon his knees near a simple fire pit, a sword would be tightly clenched in the hands of the King's hands. Francisco would have his gag removed, and he would begin to speak of him dying for Hyspia and GOD. He would prepare for the sword, yelling out words of GOD as the blade slung down, decapitating him. Francisco would have his head kicked into the firepit, his body laying on the ground, lifeless. The lively and sociable Cardinal being extinguished as if he was a candle. 1768-1809, Francisco Altamirano, Cardinal of Sutica, Archbishop of Nescia, and Bishop of Cordoba dies at 42 years old

Francisco shakes his head in disappointment once more, "Where is GOD in these missives?" He would ask his fellow Hyspians

"Why is my son, a bishop, getting into politics..absolutely disgraceful" Francisco would shake his head in disappointment, "And where are the mentions of GOD and his infinite glory and wisdom? I do approve of the position of my good friend, Madame Garnet."

"Liberals" A Hyspian peasant would remark after reading the missive

Kurt Vaughan, a Leumont guard sighs as he read the missive, he would sign the lorraine as he took off his armor, taking it with him as he left Leumont. He would burn the armor, looking up to the seven skies as he did so.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CESAR I BY, FRANCISCO ALTAMIRANO, CARDINAL OF SUTICA TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. BEGINNINGS II. REGAL CAREER III. DEATH IV. LEGACY INTRODUCTION This book was written due to my passion for the man widely known as Cesar I of Hyspia. Cesar I was the first Hyspian King, and head of House Rivera till 1795. His reign only lasted 5 years though, but these 5 years were filled with many feats and challenges for the King. This is his story. I. BEGINNINGS Cesar was born on an unknown date in 1773 to an unknown Father and Mother. He would lose his parents shortly into his life, both being lost in a foraging expedition. Due to this, he was raised by the Hyspian tribe as a whole, being taught scripture, military strategy, and proper Hyspian etiquette. These teachings would shape the boy into the man he would become. Cesar would continue to rise the ranks of prestige of the Hyspian social order, becoming more and more ambitious as he rose and rose. Cesar I would make many connections and allies during his time as a boy, not yet reaching the age if 17. He would ally himself with various Hyspian families. When Cesar I did eventually reach the age of 17, the Chieftain of Hyspia would perish to an unknown fate. This would be Cesar's gateway to Hyspian leadership, after the Chieftain died, he became Chieftain of Hyspia due to popular vote of the Hyspian people. Cesar being the ambitious man sought more than just a simple tribe, he sought a kingdom, and once Cesar sought his eyes on something, he would not stop glaring at it. Cesar would convince the families of Hyspia to let him lead them to the south, to the wildlands. Here he would begin the foundations of his kingdom. II. REGAL CAREER After the settlement and establishment of the first Capital Tierra Natal, Cesar declared the Barony of Hyspia. Immediately after, he ordered the construction of a protective wall around the new town to protect it from hostile raiding parties that roamed the wildlands in search of an easy target. After the completion of this wall and the further growth of the Barony and City, Cesar declared the Nationalization of Hyspia. The Nationalization of Hyspia declared the reformation of the Barony into the Kingdom of Hyspia, and the creation of the Hyspian Monarchist Army in the year 1792. A year later in 1793, Cesar created the Steward's Guild of Hyspia which became responsible for the construction, maintaining, and selling of buildings within Tierra Natal. It was in this same year that Cesar revealed the birth of his Son, Antonio Marvolo Rivera, and declared the creation of the Hand of the Crown, which was the second most powerful role in the Kingdom. Around this time, he gave approval for Juan Mendez and Pedro Gonzalez to duel in order to resolve the Mendez-Gonzalez feud. This duel was only to knockout, with Juan defeating Pedro. The approval of such a duel helped to end hostilities between the two men, up until the outrage of Pedro breaking into Juan's home. This led to a duel to the death. After this duel, Cesar's reputation was minorly damaged by some dissenters, who called him a weak ruler. However, Cesar managed to gain respect back after ordering the Hyspian Monarchist Army to partake in the Hyspian Expedition. The Expedition was organized to drive out the small bands of outlaws hiding around the Hyspian realm, and this action again established Cesar as a firm leader over Hyspia. Cesar had started the Hyspian-Bandit war in 1790 by declaring an outright crusade against banditry in the Wildlands, and appointed Juan Mendez to see to the military aspects of the War. After the Hyspian victory in the Battle outside Tierra Natal, Cesar's popularity among the people rose significantly. Though the later Raid on Tierra Natal did cause some mistrust, the raid was not consequential enough to truly diminish Cesar's popularity. Truth be told, this war was started based on a lie. The war was little more than a propaganda campaign created by the heads of the government to show the martial “strength” of the military, though the battles which occurred did happen and Cesar was never made aware of the true reasoning for the bandit raids. Cesar would continue his reign for some months later, continuing to expand the Hyspian state’s power within the Wildlands. III. DEATH (Painting of Hyspian Corte members finding the body of Cesar I) Only a year later in 1795, he would be killed by a disgruntled Hyspian farmer by taking an axe to the chest and succumbing to his wound instantly. Immediately following his death he was succeeded by his Son, Antonio I of Hyspia. He was buried in the exact same spot where he had founded Hyspia years ago, where the first cabin he lived in was raised. The funeral was one of the most emotional of the Kingdom with several of the King's close friends giving speeches about their experiences with the king. IV. LEGACY The legacy of Cesar I are the stories kept in the hearts of the Hyspians, Canonist or not, Cartagenan or Nueva Tierran alike. Cesar I was a true uniter of Hyspia as a state, and Hyspia as a culture. Cesar pioneered the thought process of the modern Hyspian, willing to take action in his own hands, even if they’re grimy and a bit disgusting. Even a Hyspian peasant is as capable of rising to the levels of the great King Cesar ‘the founder’. OOC: Note, this is not my character, this is @Javert's, he has given me permission to post such a thing

Francisco would pear out the window of his Cartagenan room, sipping Hyspian tequila as he read his copy of the letter, smiling and crying tears of joy as he looked up to the sky out his window.

A legendary builder, we'll all miss you hermano

Francisco burns his invitation, using it for warmth, "Mending pass wounds? The Red Hyspians are the masters of falsehoods"

Francisco would pen a letter back to the father the context of it would read, "Fear not dear brother, new knights had been knighted previous to you penning such a letter, I will urge both Holy Sirs Santiago Chicote and Alfonso Altamirano to take squires under their wings. I'd imagine that with new knights making up the order, our military will grow plenty men strong." @Basil Moroul

Funeral of Padre Javier (Portrait of Padre Javier Francisco-Altamirano) 1782-1808 It comes with great sadness and heavy heart that I must write such a thing. Padre Javier, a man of the cloth has died at only 26 years old. He died after being thrown in a pit, thank GOD that the noble Father Basil Moroul has retrieved his badly damaged body. Due to the damages brought to his body, we will be having a closed casket funeral for the late priest. The late priest served as a faithful and spirited vicar for Providence, and a faithful and loyal servant to the true Hyspian state. Javier was an example of a true Hyspian, always sticking to his morals and the holy virtue. All are welcome to attend the funeral of the late priest, and to mourn his loss. Sit laus Deo, Cardinal Francisco of Sutica (6PM EST TODAY IN OSANORA)

"The best rose in the bush..has withered" A melancholy Francisco would whisper

APOSTASY A Short Thesis by Cardinal Sutica "And so I shall guide you in a theater of virtue, and the virtuous shall not live except by My Word" (Virtue 1:7) "So I am the Most High, and in pursuit of My Virtue, I bid my faithful this: You shall not blaspheme My Word, nor any thing that is holy." (Virtue 1:8) Brothers and sisters of the faith, it is well known to you of what an apostate is, a baptized member of the church who has renounced their faith, and chosen to go down a path of paganistic and evil deeds. These apostates typically worship false gods, and participate in evil rituals. A devoted and virtuous member of the church would never allow themselves to be lead to such a path, a path of evilness. A true believer is one that embraces the Holy Scrolls of the Exalted, and therefore, the Holy Word of GOD. It should be known by all faithful for when you are baptized, you agree with the covenant of GOD. I, myself, have had experience with apostates, the state I once presided in, had abandoned GOD, and allowed themselves to fall under a dark path. They allowed themselves to fall under this path, on their own freewill, but this does not mean they cannot repent. If an apostate were to repent for their sins, their evil deeds against GOD, they would be able to rejoin the holy communion, and recreate their eternal vows to GOD. We as men of the cloth must help lost souls such as apostates back on the path of righteousness. If they do not want to accept our help, and they do not repent, then their soul is not saved, and they can enjoy the rest of eternity in the void. Even your duties as pious laymen of the church include helping the lost souls of the apostates back onto the path of GOD and his teachings. We as members of the church must make it our duty, our priority, to help the souls of the lost, not only apostates, but heretics and heathens as well. If GOD forbid that we must lay down the ultimate punishment, death upon the apostates, we must do it with mercy, as GOD would want us to. If these lost souls, these apostates choose to try to corrupt the minds of our faithful and pious members of the church, then they must be punished, by means that would not go against common morals, those being punishments with mercy and those that abide by the virtue. Apostates sometimes hide out in plain site of those of our common pious folk, and we as canonists need to find them, and help them go on the path of healing and redemption. All apostates can seek redemption and repent, and we must show mercy and allow them to, of course we must help them with this path or else they can once more lead themselves down a path of apostasy once more. To conclude, only us Canonists can help the world thrive, and apostates unfortunately get in the way of this, that is why we must help them seek redemption and repentance for their sins against GOD and his covenant, and if we must punish them, we use mercy and fairness. A thesis by Cardinal Sutica, Francisco Altamirano on the 15th of Horen's calling, 1808

"Glorious!" The aging Cardinal Francisco would shout from his office window.

"Excellent" Francisco Cardinal Sutica would simply say as he sipped his fine Hyspian tequila

The Cardinal sipped tequila as he thought of all the sweet products he could get.

Francisco looks out the window after reading the thesis, he rubs his mustache..thinking. He gives a silent nod approving of it.

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~`~`~A Response From Cardinal Sutica~`~`~ I have heard the points of both side, I have heard the calls and the cries of both, and I must say, they do not matter to me. I as a man of cloth, shouldn't be forced my hand, to have to write such a thing, but it must be done for there have been threats on my life as a supposed supporter of the "usurper" leader of Eastcliffe. I for one, do not care whatever the claims be, for it is not my duty as a man of the cloth to have to participate in political intrigue. The previous rulers of Eastcliffe have claimed me abandoning my Canonist brothers, yet they threaten the life of a man of the cloth. I do not have support for either side, for I have decided to stay neutral, for it is not my duty to have to participate in this. Though I do hope that both sides show no laxity in their worship of the true faith, and I do hope the supposed pagan "usurper" leader of Eastcliffe finds GOD, and lets him guide her with his infinite wisdom. I do pray for both sides and their families, and I do pray that they find a peaceful solution, but if there is to be war, GOD forbid, I will pray for peace as well. I do hope both sides do find my neutrality to be acceptable, as much as I do. From the always faithful, Francisco Cardinal Sutica

Francisco Cardinal Sutica laughs at the missive, then proceeds to show it to his Hyspian countrymen

"Lets hope they keep the good word of GOD close to their hearts" Francisco would exclaim in the Osanoran church.

A shaky Cardinal Francisco would gasp in his office after hearing of the declaration, silently saying to himself, "Oh no...."

~`~`~A Response from the Office of Cardinal Sutica~`~`~ Epistle to the Jorenites "4 And verily you are commended for your virtue in defense of man, for indeed your own king kept me from death." It has been unfortunate news for me to hear of a war in Haense, brought upon by the two sexes, male and female. It pains me to have to write such a document as this but I must. The girls of Haense have declared an offensive war against the peace loving boys. The girls must be extinguished for declaring such an act of violence. I hereby declare my full support for the boys of Haense as Cardinal of Sutica, Archbishop of Nescia, and Bishop of Cordoba. Let it be known to all forces of this war, there may be no laxity in the practice of the true faith, the Holy Canon. 13 There can be no laxity in faith for any reason, not war nor peace, not wealth nor poverty I hope to GOD that both sides continue to worship the true faith, and commit great acts of mercy upon their foes, and that this war ends, and all sides continue to love GOD and his infinite love, wisdom, and honor. From the always faithful, Francisco Cardinal Sutica [The Cardinal would laugh gleefully as he finished the response, which he made half jokingly.]