Marponeth 18, 151 Great Shadow Shadow Tribe Territory Regard Request for Audience
Great Shadow, you have demonstrated time and time again your overwhelming might and your incredible tolerance and patience for Sanctuary. Your disciple was an honorable and courageous warrior who time and time sought to open a dialogue between Sanctuary and yourself.
Sanctuary's leadership baffles me with its unwillingness to consider your offer. You have spoken with much justice when you said that your offer to protect Sanctuary was withdrawn after Julian Fryar murdered Baldev Cole.
Yet I humbly recognize that we can not survive without allies in the blackness of the Underdark. I appeal to you as the source of shadow spoken of in legends to grant me an audience to reopen a dialogue. I believe that Sanctuary's inability to appoint a diplomat to discuss terms with you has led to a foolish situation caused by our own ignorance.
You spoke once that you sought to protect Sanctuary because you wished to study it and Dunwarren. You have never attacked us, even when you had just cause to do so. Yet we entered a strange dance where you slowly claim our territory peacefully, while in return we do nothing but cede more territory to you and consider a way to fight your forces that won't result in our decimation once your mercy is withdrawn.
I find this unteneble. I wish to discuss a solution that the people of Sanctuary can accept and that meets with the approval of your vast wisdom and intellect. As a gesture of my good intentions, I also offer the return of Disciple Baldev Cole's weapons and the suit of armor you clearly crafted for him because only a being of your might could create such a work. I offer these whether you wish to open discussion with me or not, they are rightfully yours.
I believe I have the status and position in Sanctuary to conduct these discussions and force the Council listen to wisdom. I wish to hear your terms, your desires, and work under you guidance to find a solution between what has too long appeared to be a difference between the latter and what the people of Sanctuary want and understand you to want.
Respectfully,
Lieutenant Fawkes