Reply: [Personal letter, Ivandur Reynolt] 5th day of Nightal in the year 150 Agent Delgado

In response to your letter to the Watch and Spellguard concerning the "aegis of Reynolt" I answer you this:

Throught your actions you have conciderably weakened the Spellguard and Watch authority in the Lower quarter, for the few dissidents who voice their opinion through rioting and such your verdict in the recent case against the Tigereye Patrick this was a complete victory. The Officials of the Law in Sanctuary must stand together and not allow such individuals to further hamper both our movements and actions, in stead of backing down and agreeing to their criminal-like threats of rioting and threatening of law officials the Spellguard, Watch and Tigereyes should take action against these individuals in order to show that such actions are not to be allowed within Sanctuary. Rioting because an officer of the law is doing his duty is a criminal offence and those responsible should be brought to justice instead of listened to. Your failure to see this simply sheds light on your immense incompetence, as well as brings new threats upon Sanctuary. You have singlehandedly given great leway to many criminals within Sanctuary by showing them that the officials of the law are weak and will be swayed by idiotic shoutings and violent behaviour. I sincerely doubt that you would feel as you do if you would be set upon by numerous citizens while trying to work on council business.

Even though it irks many to see that the Spellguard and Watch are capable of doing their duty within any part of Sanctuary and that criminals should not be safe to roam either the Upper or Lower part of the city, the officials of the law should not simply sit back and allow those individuals to get away with such things.

You wonder why the Spellguard and Watch are dissatisifed with your ignorant views? It is simply because you have removed a large fraction of both our credibility and power, for such organizations to be told that they are not allowed to pass into certain parts of Sanctuary simply because some criminals wish for it is a great strike to our way of living.

I wonder if enough people ask that law should be disbanded as a whole in Sanctuary, would you agree to this? I don't think so, you are not a complete fool although greatly mislead. Reconcider your actions before it is too late, even though you do not think you have given any additional power to the Tigereyes I would prove to you otherwise. It was just yesterday that a watch private was attacked by a tigereye, from behind, while trying to detain a criminal that we were trying to apprehend. The private was struck to the ground and then the Tigereye sat back and watches as the criminal moved on to attack myself. In the Tigereyes opinion he was completely in his right since neither I nor the private should be "meddling in their business".

Your actions, be they goodwilled or not, mean that now people think that simply by disagreeing with the law enforcers, law will indeed be reduced and swayed to their likings in order to allow them better leway in their criminal behaviour.

It is no simple coincidence that most crimes in Sanctuary happen in the Lower Quarter, the Tigereyes are both incompetent at their supposed duties as well as indefinately disregardful of authority. They are not great minds Ivandur, rulings such as yours have given them false thoughts of grandeur and made them think that they are indeed the sole authority of the Lower Quarter. You must think matter through before acting as you have, atleast take time to explain the matter in detail to the lackwits in the mercenary company. As a similar personality you must realise that such things need to be explained to such people and failure to do so may result in situations as we have seen since your verdict.

I know that I am not a patient man and that we have had our grievances in the past Reynolt but that is no need for your spite of me to have effect on the rest of the populace, keep a level head, try to remove the prejudice from your mind and view the matters as a whole instead of looking simply at one situation.

I hope it is not too late for you to remedy your actions in order to further assist the town of Sanctuary to keep the peace. You have said yourself in the past that you do not trust the mercenaries and they have been reported for both violence and indifference towards the citizens of Lower Sanctuary.

Perhaps the citizens I labelled as criminals before are simply acting in such a way because of fear of the Tigereye, have you investigated that? Did you in fact research the situation at all before coming to your appaling decision?

*signed* Agent Delgado

Throught your actions you have conciderably weakened the Spellguard and Watch authority in the Lower quarter, for the few dissidents who voice their opinion through rioting and such your verdict in the recent case against the Tigereye Patrick this was a complete victory. The Officials of the Law in Sanctuary must stand together and not allow such individuals to further hamper both our movements and actions, in stead of backing down and agreeing to their criminal-like threats of rioting and threatening of law officials the Spellguard, Watch and Tigereyes should take action against these individuals in order to show that such actions are not to be allowed within Sanctuary. Rioting because an officer of the law is doing his duty is a criminal offence and those responsible should be brought to justice instead of listened to. Your failure to see this simply sheds light on your immense incompetence, as well as brings new threats upon Sanctuary. You have singlehandedly given great leway to many criminals within Sanctuary by showing them that the officials of the law are weak and will be swayed by idiotic shoutings and violent behaviour. I sincerely doubt that you would feel as you do if you would be set upon by numerous citizens while trying to work on council business.

You are welcomed to ask the Citizens of Lower what they think of you, and I'm quite sure the majority if, not Ninety percent, will say they care little for the Spellguard. That trial was a joke, it was a mockery of the law to even make a trial out of it. My judgement was fair, a strict fine for Patrick's unreasonable actions, and a stern -request- that the Spellguard and Watch honor the feelings of the citizens of Lower to their best ability.

What you propose is to turn ourselves into Tyrants, that when a man acts out of line, he is to be crushed, to dissuade those who would follow in his foot steps. What good will come of it? You will take rioters and fine them of all their coin, and it will only anger more. What will you do after that? Fine everyone, rob them of their coin? Kill them? Exile them? This obscene hatred for the Spellguard will -not- be solved by throwing more punishment upon those of Lower.

Even though it irks many to see that the Spellguard and Watch are capable of doing their duty within any part of Sanctuary and that criminals should not be safe to roam either the Upper or Lower part of the city, the officials of the law should not simply sit back and allow those individuals to get away with such things

If you are in pursuit of a criminal and they lead you into Lower, you are in your right to give chase, in my opinion. If a Tigereye interferes, you are more than free to take this case before a Councilor or press charges once the criminal has been dealt with. If you require a criminal to be apprehended in Lower, put out a warrant and have the Tigereyes do it. If they refuse, you are more than welcome to contact me and I will -force- them to do it (Assuming you've legitimate charges and they aren't akin to the Rotheshit you tried to feed Three Councilors concerning my 'Endangerment' actions).

You wonder why the Spellguard and Watch are dissatisifed with your ignorant views? It is simply because you have removed a large fraction of both our credibility and power, for such organizations to be told that they are not allowed to pass into certain parts of Sanctuary simply because some criminals wish for it is a great strike to our way of living

What power? What creditability? The unique skill to incite a riot upon entry into Lower? Please refer me to the past when the Spellguard or Watch have -EVER- in the recent past Apprehended a Criminal in Lower Sanctuary. If so, please refer me to an arrest that did -not- incite a riot afterwords.

I don't wonder why the Spellguard or Watch may seem dissatisfied with me. I know it is only a few individuals who, for the most part, simply seek to argue or hinder my efforts as best they can. Some, children who feel slighted by another child who's poking them, and so they cry to their friends in private and then scheme to return the poking tenfold.

Reconcider your actions before it is too late, even though you do not think you have given any additional power to the Tigereyes I would prove to you otherwise. It was just yesterday that a watch private was attacked by a tigereye, from behind, while trying to detain a criminal that we were trying to apprehend. The private was struck to the ground and then the Tigereye sat back and watches as the criminal moved on to attack myself. In the Tigereyes opinion he was completely in his right since neither I nor the private should be "meddling in their business".

Is this "Additional Power" I've given to the Tigereye's any different? To me it sounds as if you ignored my -request- to honor the considerations of the Citizens and barged into lower, promptly being stopped by a Tigereye Mercenary who couldn't give a half-damn about the law. To me, that sounds as it's always been, as I can cite several times the same has happened before I even made my request. Did you even bother to place a Warrant out on this Criminal before moving into Lower? Did you even bother requesting the Tigereyes apprehend her? I know you did not place a Warrant before you had made the attempt, as it was only recently posted a few hours ago. If you feel slighted, get the name of this Tigereye, or a description, and we may take it up with his superiors.

Your actions, be they goodwilled or not, mean that now people think that simply by disagreeing with the law enforcers, law will indeed be reduced and swayed to their likings in order to allow them better leway in their criminal behaviour.

Only when the majority disagrees, Delgado. I am no tyrant.

It is no simple coincidence that most crimes in Sanctuary happen in the Lower Quarter, the Tigereyes are both incompetent at their supposed duties as well as indefinately disregardful of authority. They are not great minds Ivandur, rulings such as yours have given them false thoughts of grandeur and made them think that they are indeed the sole authority of the Lower Quarter. You must think matter through before acting as you have, atleast take time to explain the matter in detail to the lackwits in the mercenary company. As a similar personality you must realise that such things need to be explained to such people and failure to do so may result in situations as we have seen since your verdict.

It's an unfortunate fact that the crime rates are far higher in Lower than Upper, but that will only be changed by the Tigereyes tightening the reins on their own men, something I am in the process of working on with a few of their members. Furthermore, these situations have only been brought about by your supposed -failure- to adhere to my request. Forcing your way in Lower Sanctuary, opposite of how I suggested, attacking a suspected criminal before a warrant is even posted so that the Tigereyes might know the woman is a criminal, and as if that is not enough; the hiring of a SECOND Mercenary group to enter lower as Deputies and detain this suspected criminal, inciting -another- riot. This same riot resulting in the death of this same suspected criminal, followed later that day by the death of one of the Doubloon Mercenaries. All this done, before you even placed a damn warrant.

I know that I am not a patient man and that we have had our grievances in the past Reynolt but that is no need for your spite of me to have effect on the rest of the populace, keep a level head, try to remove the prejudice from your mind and view the matters as a whole instead of looking simply at one situation.

I find this humorous, also the fact you are seeking to lecture me on maintaining a levelhead when you were the same man who sought to have me executed or exiled for the most rediculous charges I have ever heard, and then further -insulting- all the presiding Councilors in a fit of childish rage, followed by a little storming man out the door.

In truth, all I see now is a failure to adhere to my -request-, for that is what it is. My ruling was only a -request-. It was not an order, I hold no authority to establish such laws without approval of the Council, and this is something you should know. My ruling was a large fine on Patrick and then a -request- followed by advice on how to conduct yourselves in Lower.

Instead, you take this as an opportunity to place words in my mouth and pass it off as a new "Aegis of Reynolt", using it as a convenient excuse to blame all your failures in ensuring Sanctuary's safety. It could not be because you fail to go along with my request, and thus are dealt with the same response you have always been, thus making your attempts to deal the law all the much harder. It is clearly because of the "Aegis of Reynolt", the request you and others fail to adhere to.

I suggest you spend half as much effort doing your job as you do scheming and trying to pick witless battles. Perhaps then we might get something done.

Please take your further inquiries before my face, so you might look me in the eye while trying to maintain your deceit and hypocricy.

Sincerely,

Ivandur Reynolt

Reply: [Personal letter, Ivandur Reynolt] 5th day of Nightal in the year 150 Agent Delgado

Reynolt, once again you prove your ignorance. It is of none of my concern what the personal opinion of the citizen of the Lower Quarter are of me personally or my companions in the Spellguard. They are to adhere to the law and rioting or simply behaving as they have in the past simply because an officer of the law is doing his duty is by no means something a proper citizen of Sanctuary should do. You, for example, have had many an encounter where you claim to have been set upon by those who disagree with you; did you not ask that those men be made responsible for their actions? I am sure that in their minds you were simply someone they didn't like and they decided to riot against your immensely intolerable visage. Surely you must see the hypocrisy of your words.

The Spellguard have no wish to become neither tyrants nor anything like that, we simply do not see the need to allow the citizens of Sanctuary to sway the laws because of personal disputes. If the citizens of Lower have a qualm with either the Watch or the Spellguard then I'm sure you agree it would be best for them to bring those matters up with the Council, they -do- have Council members from the Lower Quarter, surely they can bring what matters the citizens from the Lower Quarter are dissatisfied up with the rest of the Council. But no, you wish to allow this charade to continue, for us to allow them to set upon the protectors of Sanctuary in the way they have in the past, if a man breaks the law by attacking another man you would not simply let him walk away because "Well, he didn't like him".

There is not always time to walk to the Herald and issue a warrant, wait for it to be distributed between those who should receive it and then wait for them to apprehend the criminal. As for example with Vara then she committed a crime and I pursued her, I could not simply allow her time to cover her tracks and escape.

As to your claims that no arrest has been made by Spellguard Agents in the Lower Quarter without inciting a riot, I offer you an excerpt from a Spellguard Arrest report:

...Dorus the Grim was spotted on Marpenoth 2nd of the Year 149 by a Tigereye Mercenary in Lower Sanctuary. Spellguard Agents with appropriate spell protections captured him on the following day in the Canal Ward and secured him at the Watch House without incident...

There are several others which I found while simply scanning the archives for a couple of hours.

To me it sounds as if you ignored my -request- to honour the considerations of the Citizens and barged into lower, promptly being stopped by a Tigereye Mercenary who couldn't give a half-damn about the law

Once again I would like to point out the fact that it was indeed you that pointed out that both the Watch and Spellguard were allowed to follow criminals into the Lower Quarter without consorting with the Tigereyes in any way. I repeatedly notified the Tigereye in question that the elf was a criminal and that she was to be apprehended, he did not react in any way other than to strike down the private.

Your claims that the law should be swayed when the majority wishes so is all and well but such things should be taken through the correct avenues. The citizenry should apply to their Councillors to have laws changed, not riot at the mere sight of law enforcement. They have become too used to the lax rule of the Tigereyes which allows known criminals to roam free within the Lower Quarter and the sight of proper authority makes them fear for their supposed freedom offered by the Tigereyes.

It gives me a wanting amount of satisfaction to be able to humour you, your charges were fully rational but I doubt that anything I say can ever sway your mind, your are known to be unable to understand any accusations made concerning your inabilities or foolish way, made by me or any other.

In regards to the rest of your letter, if you intend by that utilization of obscure colloquialism to imply that my abilities as a law enforcer are not up to scratch then I suggest you take the matter up with the Council you currently reside in. I am sure you have plenty of proof to back up your words.

*signed* Agent Delgado

Delgado,

I tire of receiving these letters after clearly asking you to address me as a man and not behind a veil of parchment and ink.

Regardless.

Once again I would like to point out the fact that it was indeed you that pointed out that both the Watch and Spellguard were allowed to follow criminals into the Lower Quarter without consorting with the Tigereyes in any way. I repeatedly notified the Tigereye in question that the elf was a criminal and that she was to be apprehended, he did not react in any way other than to strike down the private.

If you are unwilling to post a Warrant, and furthermore, are unwilling to attempt to improve relations with the Tigereyes and Citizens of Lower, then I think it should be fully expected that a Tigereye who thoroughly despises you decides to smack you upside the head. Now, this is not to say the Tigereye had just cause, and if you managed his name, we may see him face a punishment for his actions.

I will acknowledge the lax amount of law that is common in Lower, but that would appear to be what the people wish, and it would be damn difficult to change that and enforce Order as there is in Upper without risking another rebellion or civil war. If you've any hopes of seeing order brought about in Lower through the Spellguard, I suggest they make efforts to clear their image of a Tyrant.

If you insist on my proposal being poor, then I insist you think of an alternative that might improve the opinion of the Spellguard in the eyes of the people. It isn't their job to serve you. It's your job to serve them.

It is clear a lack of structure or sense of rank between all three Law agencies is a factor in the degree of chaos or lack of seniority when it comes to matters of justice. Because of this, I am going to be drawing up a draft in the near future that will establish a ranking system to ensure each faction knows their place, and it is obvious who takes commands from whom.

If you've anything else to say, do so personally. This "Aegis of Reynolt" is not a law, but a request and advice. If you choose to ignore my advice, then you do so at your own peril and at the risk of the Spellguard Reputation, something that has clearly not made you hesitate in the past. I also suggest you tell your fellow Agents of this, as many seem to believe that my judgement was indeed a law, though I specifically recall saying, "Request" during my judgement in that trial.

Lastly;

You, for example, have had many an encounter where you claim to have been set upon by those who disagree with you; did you not ask that those men be made responsible for their actions? I am sure that in their minds you were simply someone they didn't like and they decided to riot against your immensely intolerable visage. Surely you must see the hypocrisy of your words.

The difference is that I am a man of honor.

Sincerely,

Ivandur Reynolt