legal scholar albrecht eggebrecht writes a letter to leonard van halen concerning a tangential bill rider
dear sir i write to you over my morning brew
now that a temporal limitation is introduced to imperial law, why is there no geographic one?
should a man break an existing law in a realm that is later imperial territory, does he suffer criminal liability through the infinite regress of time (not that time regresses infinitely, for we do know it was Created – but let us not bog down in canonical eisegesis! we have law to lawyer!), or are there geographic limitations to the punitive power of the state?
if i were to kill a fellow man in wildylands uncharted nor claimed until decades later, it would be murder, but would i be hot-footed to the prison wagon and gifted six foot of an “orener’s necktie” should these lands later become imperial territory? after all, it would be a crime committed on imperial soil, but soil that had yet to be imperial soil at the time.
your kindly orc states that its purpose is for “the dispensation of justice within our realm”, but to what temporal degree? is it within the imperial realm-in-space or imperial realm-in-moment? i demand and implore for geographical limitations to be explicated
if someone as wizened as myself is confused, i can only imagine your top academics are banging their heads against their tables in frustration
i hope this letter finds you in good health and i send you a bouquet attached and a million sympathies on hearing of your brother edwards recent passing from this realm to his eternal reward,
yours,
albrecht eggebrecht