Salutations People of Sanctuary,
To my sorrow, many fear me. For those that do, I offer you the solemn assurance that much of my business here in the caves of Dunwarren has been concluded, and that I shall soon leave this place for another. To those that do not, I have a proposition.
Many accuse me of monstrous things. The truth is, I am a far more peaceful and generous man than your leaders. I have only sought to bring the power of unrestricted knowledge, the promise of harmony and cooperation between the living and unliving, and the assurances of a better future to this sad little settlement. Due to my beliefs, and the intolerance of certain rigid religious codes, I have been attacked and assaulted every step of the way. Yet I endure still, with most of those who attacked me simply chastised and gently sent on their way.
The people of Sanctuary, and even those of this place that seek my destruction, are not my enemies, and I have never treated them as such. But I do have enemies, and those I shall not be gentle with. The illithid are a monstrous race. They have enslaved and consumed many of our kind, and I do not doubt for a moment that --
[There appears to be a break in the writing, and there are a few bloodsmears]
-- they are the true enemy of all goodly peoples.
I have been accused of much, but one sin I am truly guilty of. In the past, when I sought the books of Po, I slew an illithid and freed its thralls. Yet, to my sorrow, I allowed these thralls to be retaken into slavery, in exchange for the Primer of Po. I swore then that I would use the power of Po to free them, and I intend on doing just that.
People of Sanctuary, I have under my control an army of the unliving, the servants of Po, and there is nothing that the illithid fear more than the undead.
It is my intention to march to Ysinode with this army, and there break the illithid, and free as many of their thralls as I can, and then lead them to the surface.
I welcome all who wish to join me.
To those who do not, I wish you a weary fare well. I shall remember Sanctuary, and its ignorant people, for many centuries.
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