These bold declarations are found scattered all throughout the city, in great number
The Watch
The noble founders of the Watch would be struck with a powerful, disgusted sickness if they knew what has become of their legacies. The founding vision has been lost, mired in greed and self-gratification. Instead of the brotherhood of good-hearted warriors sworn to protect a temporary camp as its denizens strove for Ascension, they have become a regimented, brutal and authoritative organization dwelling on law enforcement and internal agendas.
Their main duty has become the enforcement of rules which restrict individual choices and breed slavery to the status-quo. They smother us with laws and penalties while taking for their own that which is greatest in all of us: our liberties. They prescribe robotic thinking and punish us brutally should we show resistance.
Like the other Upper institutions, the Watch has grown beyond complacent in regards to the search for the Way. The Watch has become a bloated, bureaucratic and encroaching organization which has cast aside entirely the promises of the surface and the ideals of liberty and freedom, and is instead increasingly focusing on petty matters such as factional politics and excessive law enforcement.
Frederick Bresley once called for the dissolution of the Watch 139 years ago. It still persists, a bloated parasite feeding on fear and uncertainty, binding people to the city and thereby condemning our Ascension. The thwarting of the Ascension is by design of its commanders, who have a vested interest in perpetuating their authority and eminence down here.
Remember Dhogur? We do. Remember Short? We do. Remember Bhast? We do. Acknowledge that his brutal hound now commands the Watch, has stamped into them a misplaced loyalty, and that he abuses his mayoral powers? We certainly do.
Take heed Sanctuarians! Come to realize who chains us here in the crushing darkness. Cast of your manacles and recapture your faith in the surface and the wholesome Freedom it represents.
A paradigm shift is coming. Oppose it not; lend it instead your greatest energy and your unbounded hope.
Down with the Watch. Up with the Ascension.
-The Unchained-