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THE WINBURGH PROCLAMATION Agreed on this 13TH of OWYN’S FLAME of 1962 between the GRAND COVENANT and the DUCHY OF ADRIA LET ALL AEVOS HEAR AND TAKE HEED, For upon this day, the Grand Covenant and the Duchy of Adria, as both predecessor and successor state to the League of Veletz, have warred for ten terrible winters. This was not a campaign lightly fought, for, as recognised by the Duke of Adria in his Provisions of Ducal Austerity, the nations of the Grand Covenant were compelled to arms by numerous violations of their sovereignty and security, from the regicide of the late King Edmund of Aaun, to the wanton brigandry across Covenant lands. Tens of thousands of soldiers have marched across the Heartlands; innumerable farmsteads have been torched, and countless lives slain in the defence of home and honour alike. From its triumphs at the war’s maiden battle at Breakwater, to its death throe at Euler’s Steppe, the forces of the Grand Covenant have decisively defeated the Veletzian-Adrian hosts. Now, as winter befalls Aevos for a tenth time since this war was born in the bloodied streets of Whitespire, both the Grand Covenant and the Duchy of Adria accept that the war is won in favour of the Grand Covenant, and that there exists no reason for further battles nor bloodshed. On this day, denizens of all Aevos rejoice; for the War in the Midlands is ended. I. Surrender of the Duchy of Adria I.I. The Duke and Siege Tribunal of the Duchy of Adria, as successor-state to the League of Veletz, accept responsibility for the following acts of aggression committed against the Grand Covenant: - Conspiracy with the vanquished House of Stassion for the murder of King Edmund of Aaun whilst allied to the League of Veletz, - Kidnapping Queen Sybille of Balian without provocation whilst she was heavy with child, - Failure to comply with the provisions of the 23rd Golden Bull of Jorenus issued by High Pontiff Sixtus VI with a view to resolving tensions, - Armed attack on the Haeseni capital of Valdev after the Brotherhood of Saint Karl provided protection to High Pontiff Sixtus VI during his visit to the League of Veletz to resolve tensions, - Forcing Queen Renilde of the Petra to withdraw her Commonwealth from the Canonist League under wrongful duress, - Armed attack on the Petrine capital of Vallagne due to Queen Catherine’s diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haense, - Armed attack on the Holy See and the forceful kidnapping of High Pontiff Sixtus VI, - Burning of the Abbey of St. Edmund in the Commonwealth of the Petra, - Destruction of the Cloudbreaker artefact, and, - The enfeoffment and hosting of bands of marauders, whose intention to raid and harass the realms of man was long-since known to the Duchy of Adria and the League of Veletz. I.II. As atonement for these crimes and following its military defeats at Breakwater, Brasca, Hippo’s Gorge, Stassion, Drusco, and Euler’s Steppe, the Duchy of Adria hereby surrenders to the Grand Covenant pursuant to the terms agreed. I.III. Consequently, all hostilities against the Duchy of Adria, its ensuing diaspora, and its ally the Iron Horde are hereby ended. II. Dissolution of the Duchy of Adria II.I. The Duchy of Adria - as a sovereign state - shall, upon execution of all terms, be dissolved in its entirety. II.II. The titular title of ‘Adria’ shall henceforth enter abeyance. II.III. The inheritance of the ducal title of ‘Adria’, as a title of immense cultural and historical importance, shall be determined by way of traditional Dumapalooza, the terms of which shall be determined by way of subsequent decree by the Holy Mother Church within three years. III. The Middelan Diaspora III.I. The present free citizenry of the Duchy of Adria shall, upon the Duchy’s dissolution, be termed as ‘the Middelan Diaspora’ for the purposes of this surrender. III.II. The Middelan Diaspora shall be free to seek sanctuary within the lands of any present or former Canonist sovereign state of the Grand Covenant, provided that they do not: - Lay claim or attempt to reconstitute the League of Veletz, nor, - Host any of the wanted persons pursuant to condition III.III or any of the exiled bloodlines nor the Ferrymen marauders pursuant to conditions IV. III.III. The Middelan Diaspora, including the Duke Markus Sarkozic and his Siege Tribunal, shall be free from harassment or persecution, with the exception of the following who shall be recognized as wanted and sought for persecution: - Heinrik Sarkozic, former Duke of Adria, for his treason against the Kingdom of Aaun and his excommunication by High Pontiff Sixtus V, and, - Gaspard van Aert, former Captain-General of the League of Veletz, for initiating the sovereign violations committed against the Grand Covenant under the treaties first article and his excommunication by High Pontiff Sixtus VI. IV. Adrian Titles & Lineages IV.I. Duke Markus Sarkozic’s title of the County of Aldersberg shall be retained, to be held and maintained by him and to be inherited by his kin. IV.II. All other titles of peerage within the Duchy of Adria, whether landed or otherwise, shall be distributed as follows: - The Barony of Brasca shall be assumed by Queen Catherine of the Commonwealth of the Petra, - The Duchy of Blackvale shall be dissolved entirely, and, - All other titled peers are relieved of their holdings, but are free to petition any sovereign state for re-enfeoffment. IV.III. The following lineages shall suffer the following consequence per the wars conclusion: - The lineage of the House van Aert, with exception for the Queen of Aaun, is barred from ennoblement, and any other van Aerts may reject their name and legacy to live lowborn lives, and, - The lineage of the House of Stassion, be exiled from the realms of man, and offered no land nor sanctuary forevermore, - The lineage of the House of Mareno, save for those who swear fealty to Basiyl Mareno, be exiled from the realms of man, and offered no land nor sanctuary forevermore. IV.IV. The marauders known as the Ferrymen shall be exiled from the realms of man, and no nation shall permit: - The erection or display of paintings, statues, nor artwork portraying the Ferrymen, - The wearing of uniforms resembling the Ferrymen, namely a teal bandana, nor, - The public praise nor commemoration of the Ferrymen. V. Adrian Territories V.I. All lands still retained by the Duchy of Adria shall be surrendered in full to the Grand Covenant. V.II. The Adrian territories annexed by the Grand Covenant throughout the course of war shall be distributed as follows: - The Kingdom of Haense shall annex the territories of the West. - The Kingdom of Aaun shall annex the former lands claimed by the Principality of Stassion. - The Commonwealth of Petra shall annex the former lands belonging to Drusco. V.III. The city of Winburgh shall be peacefully evacuated over the course of two years with Covenant oversight, then demolished, and replaced with a monument to wars past and present for the peace and commemoration of all mankind. V.IV. The ‘Winburgh Memorial’ shall be claimed by no nation. VI. Reparations VI.I. By way of reparations for the punitive military campaign propagated by the Grand Covenant, all remaining assets of the Duchy of Adria are to be seized, furthermore, Lord Markus Sarkozic as the leader of the Middelan diaspora shall inherit reparations of the Horde, these shall be paid through: - The national treasury, - All funds retained and belonging to the Duchy of Adria and, - All caches of weapons and armaments. VI.II. These assets shall be distributed to members of the Grand Covenant which are not annexing Adrian territories pursuant to Article V, namely the Grand Kingdom of Urguan, the Kingdom of Balian, and the Protectorate of Hyspia, in respective order of priority. VI.III. In lieu of territorial reparations, the Kingdom of Haense, the United Kingdom of Aaun, and the Commonwealth of the Petra undertake to furnish a further total of 5,000 mina to mitigate the campaign costs incurred by the Grand Kingdom of Urguan, the Kingdom of Balian, and the Protectorate of Hyspia. VII. Future of Man VII.I. The Grand Covenant and all its military and political obligations shall remain indefinitely intact. VII.II. The crowned sovereigns of the Grand Covenant shall attend a conference held within the following two years with a view to determine the course of mankind and to prevent the outbreak of future wars and conflicts between Descendants. Peace upon the victor and the vanquished alike. With the conclusion of this monumental war, let all warriors sheath their swords and let ashen fields be tilled. The weaving of the Tapestry of Man is often greased by blood, and thus let the end of hostilities between the Grand Covenant and the Duke of Adria serve as the cornerstone from which the future of man -- the peace of man -- is charted. The war is ended. T H I S I S O U R P E A C E SIGNED BY, HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, Aleksandr II, by the Grace of Godan, King of Hanseti and Ruska, Grand Hetman of the Army, Hochmeister of the Order of the Crow, Prince of Bihar, Dules, Lahy, Muldav, Slesvik, Solvesborg, and Ulgaard, Duke of Carnatia, and Vanaheim, Margrave of Korstadt, Rothswald, and Vasiland, Count of Alban, Alimar, Baranya, Graiswald, Karikhov, Karovia, Kaunas, Kavat, Kovachgrad, Kvasz, Markev, Nenzing, Siegrad, Torun, Toruv, Valdev, and Werdenburg, Viscount of Varna, Baron of Astfield, Buck, Esenstadt, Kraken’s Watch, Kralta, Krepost, Lorentz, and Rytsburg, Lord of the Westfolk, Protector and Lord of the Highlanders, etcetera. HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, John Alexander, by the Grace of GOD, King of Aaun, Prince of Alstion, Duke of Vienne, the Lowlands, Balemena and Corazon, Count of Whitespire, Enswerp and Florentine, Baron of Blanchet, Protector of the Realm HER ROYAL MAJESTY, Sybille I, by the Grace of GOD, Queen of Balian, Princess of Providence, Duchess of Helena and Lorraine, Countess of Pompourelia, Viscountess of Eflen and Anatis, Baroness of Renzfield, Brucca, Valens, Malenos and Ciavola, Lady of Portoregne, Atrus and Monterosa, Warden of La Costa Rubinissima, Protector of the Heartlanders and the South, etcetera. HER MAJESTY, Catherine I, Queen of the Commonwealth of the Petra, Marquise de Val d’Estenou, Countess of Temesch and Moere, Baroness of Garmont, Valfleur, Vallagne-en-Petra, Artois, and of the Phoenixspire, Protector of the Meadows HIS RADIANCE, Kello the Lime, Grand Poobah of Serrimor HIS HIGHNESS, Cesar II de Pelear, Viceroy of Hyspia, Duke of Pacazu, Baron of Arenisca and Del’mar, Lord of La Dorada, Lord of Niseep, Gereon's Hold, and Ciudad de Plata, Protector of the Hyspian People, Patriarch of House de Pelear. HIS GRANDNESS, Sigrun Stonehammer, Grand King of Urguan, Clan Father of The Stonehammers, Priest of Dungrimm, Hero of Dungrimm, Three-Time Grand Champion of Urguan. HIS GRACE, Markus Marie Sarkozic, Duke of Adria, Count of Aldersberg

PRIDE OVER PEACE: ON THE PEACE SUMMIT OF 164 SA I U D I C E M A C C E D I T Issued by the GRAND COVENANT In the year of 164 SA People of Middelan, It is with regret that the War for the Heartlands is fated to continue. Know that upon this day, the Duke of Adria convened with the sovereigns of the Grand Covenant within the Haeseni capital of Valdev in order to determine whether the war could be ended in a manner both peaceful and sustainable for the future peace of Man. This did not transpire. The Grand Covenant has affirmed at length that it does not seek the arbitrary annihilation of all Veletzian nor Adrian citizens. Your death is not desired. Your death is not necessary. The Covenant began its march in order to exact judgement against the state that rules over you, and that which has led you astray down this path of folly and tragedy. This war began because of grievous crimes committed by your lieges -- this much is confessed by the Duke of Adria in his Provisions of Ducal Austerity. However, by way of clarity, we recount them once more as follows: 1. That the League of Veletz wilfully conspired with the vanquished House of Stassion to murder King Edmund of Aaun - God keep his soul - whilst the United Kingdom of Aaun stood as allies to the League; 2. That the League of Veletz, without provocation, kidnapped Queen Sybille of Balian prior to her coronation and whilst she was heavy with child; 3. That the League of Veletz compelled Queen Renilde of Petra to withdraw her Commonwealth from the Cannonist League under duress whilst the Commonwealth of Petra stood as allies to the League; 4. That the League of Veletz invaded the city of Vallagne with a view to capturing the young Queen Catherine of Petra due to her diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haense; 5. That the League of Veletz ignored the commandments of High Pontiff Sixtus VI in the 23rd Golden Bull of Jorenus; 6. That the League of Veletz desecrated holy ground, namely through the burning of a consecrated church in the Commonwealth of the Petra; 7. That the League of Veletz conducted armed attacks upon holy ground and captured High Pontiff Sixtus VI; 8. That the League of Veletz gave land and sanctuary to marauders who regularly pillaged the lands of the Grand Covenant long before its formation, namely the Ferrymen led by the Elf Vyllaenen. That you no longer call yourself the ‘League of Veletz’ means nothing. As Adria preceded Veletz, so too did it succeed it. The Duke of Adria is not a redeeming rogue who defied the callous acts propagated by the Veletz before or during this war - the banners of Adria stood firmly astride their liege when all the crimes enumerated above were committed. It matters not if you did protest these acts, for just as a bandit might question the conduct of his crew, his own guilt is not mitigated if he still assists in cutting a wayfarer’s throat. These crimes are not mere stains left by your predecessor; they are scars which you helped carve. They are scars which many of your Siege Tribunal, chief among your Tribune of Civic Defense, helped carve. Thus, ask yourself - how could the Covenant ever accept that you are not one and the same as the League of Veletz? The question before the Grand Covenant today was whether the Duke of Adria and his Siege Tribunal could be trusted to aid in ensuring that the Middelan institutions never again spawned a conflict of this magnitude. Based on all described above, the Duke failed in this task. The only solution apparent to the Grand Covenant, therefore, was the dissolution of the Adrian-Veletzian state. The Duke of Adria was compelled to see reason and to do so bloodlessly, so that you - the people of Middelan - would be free from war to resettle wherever on the continent you wished, with the Kingdom of Numendil namely being a loud voice in offering hospitality and swearing upon themselves their goal of fair treatment - as all Covenant nations vowed. This was refused - the sovereignty, legacy, and name of an Adrian-Veletzian state took priority over all else such as the lives of Middelan people for the Duke of Adria. He has hence decided to value his pride over peace. Having failed to demonstrate why he, as one complicit to all crimes of Veletz, could be trusted to maintain the peace of Man, he affirmed that there could be no independent and sovereign Veletzian-Adrian state tolerated. He has therefore condemned the War to continue. We issue this missive not only as memorandum of the ill-fated peace convention held on this day, but as warning to the people of Middelan: Your deaths are not sought, nor are they necessary. Flee the crumbling remains of your liege’s folley, and be granted amnesty in any Covenant lands. From the Duke of Adria, to the Captain-General of Veletz, to the Duke of Adria once more; your lords have led you down this path, and brought you only ruin. They do not deserve your blades. Winburgh is fated to fall. B U T Y O U A R E N O T

SHOULD DAWN COME: ON THE RECONCILIATION OF ADRIA I U D I C E M A C C E D I T Issued by the GRAND COVENANT In the year of 164 SA Duke of Adria, We congratulate you on your ascension as sovereign of the remaining midlands, and on your dissolution of the League of Veletz. While the Covenant readily welcomes a world in which a polity that has wrought war and tyranny upon Aevos is a thing of the past, it is prudent - should you aspire to walk the path of peace - that the nature of our cause is understood. For while you have proclaimed we are no longer your enemy, you remain ours. This is not because of your blood, your House, nor your heritage. No -- it is because of your deeds. For you, Duke of Adria, have stood as our enemy upon the shattered bulwarks of Breakwater; your standard flew from the ruined ramparts of Brasca; your kinsfolk triumphed upon the field of Westmark, and perished on the sands of Hippo’s Gorge; you donned your colours amidst the rain of stone at Stassion; and your blade was raised on the burnt hoardings of Drusco. The sovereign realms of the Covenant collectively bore their arms to avenge grievous acts of war committed against them. We therefore beseech you, Duke of Adria, to realise that your lone words do not wash your hands of the blood of martyred Edmund; your words do not hide the steel brandished against the Queens of Petra; your words do not undo the kidnapping of the Queen of Balian whilst she was a princess heavy with child; your words do not expunge the Darkspawn harboured within your halls; and your words do not douse the flames of the marauders sicced upon our lands long before this war erupted. Your reconciliation was pleaded not in the wake of any of these atrocities, but in the face of absolute defeat. That you held firm to the course charted by your disparaged Captain-General is the very definition of conscious complicity, as is true for those who now compose your tribunal. Disavow yourself of the notion that the destruction of Veletz, Adria – or whichever name you abide by is sought for destruction’s sake. The Covenant marches for two reasons: The first of these is to render judgement unto those who propagated these crimes, which is measured only by justice -- a murderer on the gallows cannot undo his crimes through his lone plea. The second of these is to dismantle the midlander institutions from which these acts of war were birthed for the peace of all mankind, an objective that the Covenant was forced to pursue through force after the demands of His Holiness were unabashedly rejected prior to the outbreak of war. If it is peace you seek, it will not be brought by crocodile tears. You shall be permitted to come before us to seek a resolution, but know that the forces of the Covenant will not tarry in their march to see this war through should your words prove to be but wind. Two months prior to the coming battle, and the worth of your words shall be measured. By your will or ours, judgement still comes.

Ve Jurasz Stalka THE STALLION DECREE KRUSAE ZWY KONGZEM Issued by the CROWN on this 10th day of Grona ag Droba of 513 E.S. VA BIRODEO HERZENAV AG EDLERVIK, Throughout the esteemed reign of my ancestors, the House of Bihar has been blessed with many virtuous servants in their eternal quest to champion the Highland peoples. Foremostly among these servants in recent history are the Great Houses of Baruch of Valwyck, who have stood as the foremost governors and legislators of the realm for centuries; Ruthern of Vidaus, who have stood as the unflinching bulwark of Haense since they brought the Kongzem back from the grave in the miraculous Greyspine Rebellion; and Barclay of Reinmar, who, despite the relative youth of their bloodline, have defined their military and tactical prowess from the fires of the War of the Two Emperors to the cementation of the Kongzem as humanity’s foremost power in the Successors’ War. It is the Great House of Barclay who shall form the subject of this Decree. Long have the Reinmaren been scattered across the realms of Almaris and Aevos, serving various lieges under various names, namely the Sutican dynasty, the Savoyard bannermen of Freimark, and the Aaunish bulwark of Minitz. The Duke of Reinmar has approached the Crown with a request; To gather these disparate tribes under a single banner, and to live as one behind their own walls. It is as the Protector and Lord of the Highlanders that I grant the Reinmaren their wish. The Ducal House of Barclay shall, at the conclusion of the Covenant War, be released from their oaths of fealty to the Dual-Kingdom. The Reinmaren are permitted at once to join their brethren in the Principality of Minitz in preparation for their exodus into the hinterland. All titles currently held by the Ducal House of Barclay shall be gifted to the Duke of Reinmar upon the signing of a final agreement between the Reinmaren and the Crown of Hanseti-Ruska. Any lands associated with said titles shall be forfeit. DLUM EDLERVIKI, DRUZ ZVAERDI, HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, Aleksandr II, by the Grace of Godan, King of Hanseti and Ruska, Grand Hetman of the Army, Hochmeister of the Order of the Crow, Prince of Bihar, Dules, Lahy, Muldav, Slesvik, Solvesborg, and Ulgaard, Duke of Carnatia, and Vanaheim, Margrave of Korstadt, Rothswald, and Vasiland, Count of Alban, Alimar, Baranya, Graiswald, Karikhov, Karovia, Kaunas, Kavat, Kovachgrad, Kvasz, Markev, Nenzing, Siegrad, Torun, Toruv, Valdev, and Werdenburg, Viscount of Varna, Baron of Astfield, Buck, Esenstadt, Kraken’s Watch, Kralta, Krepost, Lorentz, and Rytsburg, Lord of the Westfolk, Protector and Lord of the Highlanders, etcetera. HIS PRINCELY GRACE, Alfred Konstanz Barclay, ESTSR, ROKSG, Prince of Sutica, Duke of Reinmar, Count of Freimark and Kretzen, Baron of Madvon and Freising, Lord of Sankt Johannsburg, Wilheburg, Erwinsburg, Freiburg and Rozenfeld, High Chief of the Reinmaren