Honorable & Esteemed Councilors,
I write this letter to stress the threat posed to Sanctuary from House Montezzi’s thugs in lower. When they first enacted their slaughtering of people in lower, the Seekers were among the only organized group who responded. With the assistance of few brave citizens, we attempted to put down these violent and dangerous thugs in lower and were initially successful. However being the Seekers lacked funding for resources (pay for informants, explosives, etc), the Watch with their blades and armor, or the Spellguard with their command of the Weave, our successes were short lived. Although the brave citizens who responded to mitigate this threat did the best they could, they were largely inexperienced in prolonged battle, which resulted in our lines braking and our adversaries being successful in attacking our flanks. We had no other choice but to gather the fallen, and conduct a tactical withdrawal from lower.
I must relay to you that I fear the longer that House Montezzi is in lower, the more they will be able to consolidate the sparse sources of revenue through extortion of people and aggressively recruit forces. It would be only a matter of time before the members of this house will begin to challenge the stability of Sanctuary as a whole.
As a newly elected council, this seems to be among the first test posed to you. Will you not challenge the threat that grows beneath our feet? Will you be content in the doom that will fall those citizens of lower who are unwilling or unable to venture to Upper Sanctuary? Will you not afford Seekers additional resources to adequately gather intelligence and monitor the progression of these threats?
Airandir Calmcacil, Seeker Emissary to the Council