Montezzi,

I have delivered safely the corpse of the Lady Stromir, your Warden of Pain, to the fortress. The body has been cared for to the best of my ability. I ask that you muster the honor you seem to lack and give her a proper burial.

The body of another woman in your service, the sneaky halfling, can be found buried by the gates to the Low Road, if you wish to give her a service.

I ask also that you show the two men I trounced today some mercy if they are wise enough to heed my warning for them to leave your service.

Finally, I wish to bring to your attention my challenge to you to a duel in which our disagreement may be lain to rest one way or another in a final manner. If you are, as I suspect, craven enough to not accept, or send one of your hired thugs in your stead, I will be forced to continue my campaign against your ill-won, murderous rulership in a similar manner to that displayed today.

I may be reached with a reply at the Last Stand,

Martel Rorst Knight of Tyr

Martel Rorst,

I accept your offer of a duel, to the death, to take place before my fortress at a time of mutual acceptability. We will speak more of things in person.

Prince Rinaldo Montezzi

Prince Rinaldo,

As you might suspect, I will not accept the area immediately outside your fortress -which a wise man must assume will be brimming with thugs hired by you with the gold stolen from the many you've murdered- as a place for our fateful duel.

I will leave the arrangement of a more neutral location up to you. I only ask you do not take me for a fool as you surely must have when offering to have it done where you did.

Martel Rorst

Martel Rorst,

Wherever I go, I will be accompanied with my guards. That will not change. However, I respect the institution of dueling and you may count on no interference from my guards. I prefer the location of outside the fortress, so that the people of Lower may witnesss my victory, and it will not be an undu convenience to have your body dragged back to be impaled.

You seem to believe me an honorless man. I am not. Study your history, and you'll find that all dynasties began with a man much like myself.

Prince Rinaldo Montezzi