To all Orenians of Stout Heart, and Pious Virtue,
I pen this open letter to you to inform you, and to beseech you. The events of the last month have been tumultuous and dark beyond belief. The Emperor, Philip III has shown his hand, and revealed himself to be a kinslayer, regicide, and fratricide. He, using the D'Azor family, and Savoyard Assassins and bandits, slew many of the Imperial family in a reckless and selfish bid for power.
Not satisfied with such inconceivable villainy, the Emperor then orchestrated a plot by which to see the MURDER of the Pontiff, and his replacement with an Anti-Pontiff, citing schismatic doctrines. This man who claimed the 'Mandate of Heaven' would launch the Empire into another dark age of not just civil war - but holy war, in the fruitless throes of heresy and degeneracy.
This letter is short, but it lays out the deeds.
Orenians - Countrymen - I have served since the days of Peter III. Yet this was the action that chased me from my country, and my home. Leave the Empire. Desert the army. Fight agaisnt those who remain. They must not continue, nor shall they not, for the revenge they have summoned upon themselves shall strike in Heaven, and on Earth.
Godspeed, my wayward countrymen.
John Napier.