Never-Crown: Letter of Petition [Legates of Ephia's Well]

[Succor]

A HOLD KNOWN ONLY IN DREAMS
A CLAN UNMADE AT THE SEAMS

YET BRIGHT, HIS COURAGE STILL GLEAMS

IN LONELY GLOOM HE NOW SLEEPS
AWAITING DEATH IN THE DEEPS

AWAITING THE AXE THAT REAPS

LORD OF UNGLITTERING GOLD
SPEAKER FOR SOULS YET UNSOLD

WE CALL ON YOU, LEGATE BOLD


Three topics do I call for, from the government of Ephia's Well.

Three conversations do I beckon, from those who swore friendship and alliance to the Doom-Fate.

OF THE FIRST: I am told that the Murderer's mark remains upon your Stele of Law. This, I have been told by Argent Argyris, and I demand that it be amended promptly. It is a thing of madness to revere the dark god of our enemy, worse still to name him paramount within your walls. I call upon you to change the patron of Ephia's Well to another, and to condemn the Murderer and all who worship him.

Further, in three parts, I make comment on this item:

• I tell you that this day, Tabbah 3, 7788 IY, my warband journeyed into the depths of Nusrum and discovered many brutal sacrifices laid at the feet of an altar to the Murderer, the tortured corpses of men, elves, dwarves, and Ashfolk alike. We of Got Valdhazr spit upon this depraved god. We spit upon all who praise him.


• I tell you that priests of the Murderer should be censured, and driven back into the secret lodges where their full numbers hide. Under your own law, Illegal Worship and Practise, it can be said that such cultists are a threat to Ephia's Well, for their rites and prayers empower the very same Axe that comes to cut apart the world.
  
  
• I tell you that a more fitting god of battle would be Umbur, the EARTHQUAKE, or as you know him, the WROTH. I propose alternately, if you begrudge the Fourth Legion too much to make common cause with their fearsome patron, that Kali & Gali, the SHEPHERDS, would make unflinching allies to any hero that might risk their lives for the betterment of the world.

OF THE SECOND: I behold that there stands two empty embassies in your demesne. I ask that one such space be apportioned to the dwarves of Got Valdhazr, pledged allies within this Union, where my grandfather may place huscarls and a secretary of our nation. In doing this, a line of contact shall be available even when the Minningar are far afield in distant battles.

OF THE THIRD: The Warmaster has dawdled in sending the Sukaitza saboteurs to destroy the siege engines of Obatauk, the Slayer of Dynasties, and thus bolster our embattled position against the foe. In the aftermath of our meeting with Yataghan, he claimed that he delayed because he sought first to take the measure of this eastern general. He has done so. He then promised again that he will commit the Sukaitza to Got Valdhazr. And yet as I continue to visit the Imperial Divan, I still see their token camped idle in the shadow of Ephia's Well. I bid for the joint chiefs of this city, the Legates, to directly give the order to deploy the Sukaitza. These reinforcements have been repeatedly promised for our hold throughout the two weeks following our arrival, but have still not been sent. This should be corrected without further delay.


We trust that your answer shall be immediate and thorough.

ZOSMERE
THE NEVER-CROWN
CAPTAIN OF THE SACRED MINNINGAR
DOOMED PRINCE OF GOT VALDHAZR
UNBROKEN SCION OF HIGH KING ARCHAZ

[big metal rod]

ZOSMERE
THE NEVER-CROWN
CAPTAIN OF THE SACRED MINNINGAR
DOOMED PRINCE OF GOT VALDHAZR
UNBROKEN SCION OF HIGH KING ARCHAZ

We will see what we will see.  Await promptly our answer.

-ARGENT,
LEGATE,
DRAGON

[Ziya]

Prince Zosmere of Got Valdhazr,

I am wholly supportive of the dwarves of Got Valdhazr having one of the embassies in the Palatial Pyramid to call their own. It is an unideal state of affair that they do not.

As for topic the first and topic the third, I will discuss them with Argent.

Balstan Gloamingdaith
Legate of the First Seat