Patrick Henry Rusden

"An ill-meaning, malignant and unjust rebellion, precipitated by no slight nor crime perpetrated by the sovereign, barring of course, that wretched vice of foolishness on the part of our Emperor in trusting such scurrilous islanders in the first place," dictates the writer and pamphleteer Patrick Henry Rusden to his assistant, who quickly transfers his words to writing atop a series of parchments upon a board. "For one must question why whenever this 'Black Tom' Ruric has the choice between what is right and is wrong, he shall pick the latter course of action every time, betraying without cause or pretext the authority which has protected and rewarded him. History has proven and will continue to prove that the men of Avar are naturally treacherous and seek only to make war upon our country, so lowly as to solicit the aid of nonhumans, Harrenite partisans and Dunlander mercenaries to enforce their various tyrannies upon the people. The consummate desire for anarchy and misery embedded in the Ostavarite psyche is the root cause of this rebellion, and that is why every true-blooded Imperial countryman must take up arms against the Rurikid menace to defend the commonwealth," he pauses for a moment, waiting for the aide to catch up to his words, "Yes, yes, that fits, I should think?"