Uktar 1, 151 Ickerous Prideaux The Last Stand Inn Regard Varia

I am able to scribe several of the scrolls you are seeking. If you wish to come by the Watch House we'll discuss the specifics.

I also note that you are planning to run for Council. I feel it is necessary to clarify a lie that you are perpetuating in your campaign. It is a pernicious one begun by a mass of ignorant people.

Sanctuary has no unwritten law. Every citizen in Sanctuary is fully aware of every law. I know not what "unwritten law" you refer to but I presume it is the late lie perpetuated by the Seekers that every citizen may run through Sanctuary with a greatsword in their hands.

As you may note:

1) WHEREAS Every Watchman in Sanctuary when queried about the laws of Sanctuary immediately informs every new comer and every citizen that they are not to walk through the city with their weapons drawn.

2) WHEREAS citizens running through town with weapons drawn cause a public nuisance. Other citizens fear they are bandits or trouble makers and alert the Watch. Watchmen who have historically been the targets of rebels and trouble makers also are well aware that a man with a sword drawn rather than sheathed or a battle staff at the ready rather than slung across their back is well prepared to launch an attack if they choose. Such individuals are also far more likely to break other laws.

3) WHEREAS it is unlawful for any citizen to fail to cooperate with a Watchman conducting an investigation-and any Watchman investigating why a citizen has a weapon drawn therefore has the legal right to request the sheathing of said weapon.

3) THEREFORE the carrying of weapons in Sanctuary has always fallen under the public nuisance act. No citizen has ever been arrested merely for having their weapons drawn: rather the arrest has always occurred when the citizen fails to sheathe or stow it when requested by a Watchman.

I will appreciate it if you cease with these pernicious lies that endanger the lives of my men. They have already suffered several attacks and conflicts with illithid thralls and outright rebels against Sanctuary's laws who use these mistruths as a shield for their unlawful and evil acts.

Respectfully,

Sheriff Fawkes

Uktar 13th, 1373 Dale Reckoning Sheriff Fawkes The Watch House Regard: Scrolls and "malicious lie"

First of all, I would like to apologize for the delay in my response, there was a problem with my letter box that has been since rectified.

Secondly, I most certainly would love to share in your knowledge and understanding in the Arcane, and will of course share with you what I know

Thirdly, in regards my so called pernicious lie, I did not deny that the rule was already enforced, yet you may note that the ignorant people that defy the Watch deliberately bearing arms are using the unclear laws as an excuse, and use it as a channel to perpetuate fear and uncertainty. My statement was not malicious in intent and I am not suggesting people follow the insane Seeker's rampant declarations. Sanctuary's lack of clear, comprehensive laws is a great concern of mine as they allow for easy misinterpretation -which- put your men in danger. I do not believe that this statement

Clarification of unwritten laws If I am elected into office I shall endeavour to put to paper laws that the Watch and Spellguard already enforce or would like to enforce such as the bearing of arms within Sanctuary.

is putting your men in danger. I will however alter it according to your wishes to sate your paranoid concerns and I hope this misunderstanding does not come between us should I be elected. One of my main wishes is to support the Watch and Spellguard more than they are by the current council while severely limiting the Seekers which put Sanctuary in great danger daily. If you have any laws that you would like to see enacted in future, I will be glad to champion them.

Sincerely, Ickerous Prideaux The Last Stand Inn

Uktar 13, 151 Ickerous Prideaux The Last Stand Inn Regard Varia

I can assure you that calling me paranoid is not garnering you the support of the Watch in your elections. Nor can you expect the support of the Spellguard if you are already proving yourself unwilling to cooperate gracefully with those in charge of defending your life. I also have made the laws of Sanctuary very clear in those areas where citizens do not think they are clear through public postings.

I find your very tone of correspondence indicative of an unwillingness to work with law enforcement agencies and quite contrary to your stated desire to champion our needs. Furthermore, your posters concerning "unwritten laws" even edited still is blatant pandering to the votes of the uneducated rather than a far wiser attempt to educate them to the fact that our laws are all clear to any who actually make an effort to study law rather than skim a brief pamphlet called "Sanctuary Lawbook". I expect that as always the Watch will continue to support more cooperative candidates during the election unless some shift becomes discernible in your behavior and voice.

Regretfully,

Sheriff Fawkes

Uktar 13, 151 Sheriff Fawkes The Watch House Regard: Laws

Unless there are laws that are not listed in the Town Hall, or the law book, which are off limits to the public, I will not say the laws are clear. As an example, no where do I see mention that dealing in slavery is illegal. Technically slavery does not even fit under "Endangerment of Sanctuary" if the slave in question has never entered Sanctuary or been a member of the settlement. I find this particular case greatly disturbing, as a citizen of Sanctuary could very well get away with slavery if the letter of the law is adherred to.

While it is true that I, like all candidates need votes, I am not "pandering to the uneducated" as you say, rather, I desire written rules for the uneducated to turn to so they may more easily avoid illegal activity and in some cases, be arrested for clearly morally questionable behaviour.

To my knowledge I have continuously cooperated with both the Watch and The Spellguard authorities and if at any time I have disobeyed the direct order of a Watchman or Spellguard Agent I would dearly like to be alerted to such so I can make reparations immediately. Indeed, perhaps I have cooperated with the Watch over zealously, with one incident leading ex-Private Sheevs misleading me and other good Sanctuary citizens into aiding him with illicit activity outside of Sanctuary's walls.

I apologize for my previous statement that you are paranoid, I see now that you are just overly concerned for the safety and well being of your men, and rightly so. If you still wish me too, I will completely remove the "Unwritten laws" section of my poster as an act to breach the wrong foot we seemingly got off on. I do not deny that I desire your support, and I do not deny that I will support you and the Watch in whatever way I can, cooperation is after all the only logical approch to surviving in this forsaken wasteland.

Respectfully, Ickerous Prideaux The Last Stand Inn

Uktar 13, 151 Ickerous Prideaux The Last Stand Inn Regard Varia

Again, the problem is a lack of education not a lack of well written laws. Slavery is outlawed by the charter of Sanctuary written by Frederick and Charles Bresley in the first year of Sanctuary's founding. There are no "unwritten" laws in Sanctuary enforced by the Watch.

Sadly, few citizens are truly legal scholars. Neither are many privates in the watch when they are hired. We put aside a portion of our budget specifically to train and educate our men in the details of the laws and their interpretations. However, we do not have the funds to spend training the common citizen to become a legal scholar. All we can do is hope they take the effort to query us about the laws when they have a concern or make the effort to actually research further than the tiny pamphlet so regularly abused by the illiterate to justify their own criminal behavior unwisely titled "Sanctuary Lawbook".

Citizens regularly make the mistake of consulting this book and deeming it the sole authority on law; rarely realizing that the Watch is bound by the Lawbook, common law precedent, the Elient Accord, the pact that ended the Ubel Rebellion, and the Charter of Sanctuary. All of which are easily researched, but the work of studying these documents is far harder than reading a small pamphlet of less than 500 words.

Sheriff Fawkes