Firstly let me congratulate you on your success gaining access to the Council of Old Sanctuary. It was particularly impressive considering you did not run any type of an election campaign.
I was at first pleased that a resident of Lower would be in power, since this might give voice to the disenfranchised and impoverished folk here in Lower. However I see that your grim face and bare feet cannot hide your love of Old Sanctuary and its law enforcers. Your name is attached to flyers in Upper offering a bounty for Aleczumberzeil te Esoterotept, apparently you offer a holy artefact for his capture.
I hope you have thought carefully about your current stance, and the ramifications it has both for Lower and the Church of Hoar.
The Scholar is a necromancer. He has been completely open about this from the first moment he stepped into the city. He has animated many beings, but none to my knowledge with the gates of Old Sanctuary. Your council charges him with “necromancy within Dunwarren”. The legal bounds of Old Sanctuary’s power are ambiguous since Azzam usurped the throne in Lower, but Bhast previously had sundered Lower, recognising the independence we have fought for many times. By recognising necromancy in Lower as a crime, you have tacitly accepted that the rules and laws of Old Sanctuary apply here. Let me be the first to remind you that they do not! Lower is an anarchic protectorate, we do not accept the decrees of Old Sanctuary, and never will.
His crimes of “resisting arrest” stem directly from attempts to enforce the power of Old Sanctuary onto Lower. He was attacked by various agencies, all of which were attempting to normalise the idea that Old Sanctuary’s laws extend as far as they are able to enforce them. If you are a true comrade of Lower, you should be cheered that they were rebuffed, showing that at least some people still possess the will to fight back against this tyranny from above.
Please carefully consider your policies from now on. Either you are with us, or you are against us. Show Lower that you intend to work to keep us safe from the incursions from above, or risk our wrath. If you have an issue with the Scholar, I suggest you resolve it Lower fashion, with posse of your choice.
Regards, Yvonne Rhune.