The following is written in clean, blocky lettering.
A burden has been thrust upon you, Councilor Tyrell, with the demise of Demetrius Bhast. You have long stood as a proponent of reason, knowledge, and tranquility amidst the troubled walls of Sanctuary. It is this history, and this knowledge, that Sanctuary will so desperately require from you in the coming times.
You will know by the time this letter reaches you that Demetrius Bhast has been slain by our blades. You will perhaps detest the extremity of this action, and that will make our words difficult for you to accept. Yet, we state now, there is no other means by which we could have removed this growing tyrant from the power he sought. Demetrius Bhast was not the human you consorted with for so long during your years upon the Sanctuary Council. He was an agent of the Chosen; his only goal was to subvert and corrupt all the power within Sanctuary that he could, in order to establish his reign of tyranny and destroy Sanctuary, as the Chosen destroyed Dunwarren so many years ago.
You will wish knowledge to prove this. The ultimate proof is no longer available to you, as the creature you knew as Demetrius Bhast is now destroyed. Examine his actions, however, and you will see the harm he sought to sow within Sanctuary. You will see the darkness that permeated the very air around him. You will see how very close to the brink of ruin ignorance and neglect brought Sanctuary.
Perhaps this will still not be enough. Perhaps you will be unable to reconcile the human you interacted with as a Chosen agent intent upon dominating and then destroying Sanctuary. Your inability to reconcile these facts is why we acted as we did; it is why we took the decision from you, and drove the tips of our blades into the unnatural and corrupted body that sustained the being you knew as Demetrius Bhast.
You may desire to hunt us down for the acts we committed. You may desire to persecute and arrest any whom you believe may have been involved. We are aware that this has already begun with the Seekers. We state clearly and unequivocally, however, that we did not act on behalf of the Watch, the Spellguard, the Seekers, or any other security apparatus of Sanctuary. We acted for a single purpose-to restore the chance at freedom that has been the hope, and dream, of all who have found this refuge in the night for the past century and a half. By persecuting and attempting to eradicate all within your security organizations whom you believe may be made illusionary perpetrators of this act, you ignore the true crisis, and only serve to further weaken Sanctuary as a whole.
The true crisis is the dictatorial assumption of power that Demetrius Bhast so boldly took to himself, in order to further his dark aims for this city. You may choose to ignore this crisis-you may allow the Watch and the Spellguard to run amok searching for us, you may destroy the Seekers and other factions that you believe may harbor dissent-but in doing so, you only further the damage Demetrius Bhast did to Sanctuary.
For a hundred and fifty years, the reign of the Bresleys brought a moderate, tempered leadership to the often-chaotic structure of the Sanctuary Council. A tyrant sought to usurp that role. That tyrant is now dead, never to return. It is time for a new leader to rise up, and show the citizens of Sanctuary that freedom continues to uphold the foundations upon which Charles Bresley established a refuge against the terrors of the darkness, so long ago.
That leader, Adelia Tyrell, is you. You alone, of all the other Councilors, possess the skills necessary to restore peace and order to Sanctuary during this crisis. You may choose to spurn our words; you may choose to ignore these needs; you may choose to lust after our blood, and take any measures necessary to achieve this. If you do this, I pity those who will be harmed in our stead, and I pity the people of Sanctuary, who will have lost their last chance for freedom.
If you accept this challenge, Adelia Tyrell, and rise up to meet it, then I am confident others will flock to your cause, and find the courage to stand beside you and affirm that Sanctuary remains, in spirit, as it was a century and a half ago.
The knowledge of this moment has been shared with you, Adelia Tyrell. We hope, and pray, that you use it as it should be used.