An Unsent Letter or Two

[Zambition]

Following the arrest of former Prelate Edmund Lothere, an unsent letter or two begins to circulate from a public trust. The first is addressed to Apothar Margarethe Eisenberg, the second to himself, entitled 'Democracy, not Dinarcracy'.

Dear Apothar Eisenberg,

I pen this letter with a heavy hand and a heavier mind, for your actions during the election of Iyar 7789 I find deplorable and difficult to justify the sense of in the face of your long standing commitment on paper to our League of White, which therefore brings me to suspect you do not truly hold our tenets to heart.

Often I see, as spoken by Apothar Mae Stern upon my arrival to the Citadel, accusations accosted upon the Balladeers and the Priorty for supposedly exerting no room for independents to breathe in our party, and for manipulating its meetings and tempering in our Primaries, however I must ask you;

Why is it that your fellow Apothars, specifically Estillise Azim, are found to be bragging upon our bellows her very own confession in guilt of tampering in the League of Purple's Primary, and of seating and unseating Achaeus Komemnos, Saenus?

It then seems to me, coupled with what I have now witnessed in this very election, that you, Apothar Eisenberg, alongside your accomplices Mae Stern and Estillise Azimi, of whom claim to be so called members of the League of White, have betrayed us and conspired willingly and openly against your own fellows, and to make matters more vile to write of and ponder, it dawns upon my concerned mind that these turncloak antics are perhaps not the first time, so blatant with thou disregard for the welfare and common interests let alone the common good, and shall not be the last!

So you have placed most nefariously you and yours interest above them, the common interest, and therefore, the common good that we in the League of White stand for so vehemently, because we are proud, and pride in a thing, as passion in a thing, dictates the spirits of man, and his very essence, his emotion, of which if we must make a moral high ground in these bitter politicks, this battlefield, must ever stand by in earnest.

This then leaves me no choice but to now righteously oppose these so called interests of yours as self-interest, and not the interests of the Accord or of Ephia's Well, and to label thee a traitor of the Lily Standard, and to strongly denounce your actions as unpatriotic and a pronounced breaking of the Accord Agreement that your organisation has adhered to in good faith, for in its manyfolded agreement is a shared duty above all to protect and safeguard the Citadel from harm in whatever shape this harm doth take.

Your actions are not for the good of this city, not for the good of its people; they are not for the good of the Accord, nor the good of Q'tolip, therefore you are most assuredly a villain that shall as the Living Brother be my witness, see to it that in this life if not the next, see the scales right, and justice sweetly served onto thee with a silver platter.

May your hopes, dreams and destructive plotting turn to ash upon thy tongue, forked like a serpent's would be.

We will see your removal in one way or another.

Yours truly,

Esquire Edmund Lothere

[Zambition]

Democracy, not Dinarcracy

Here have we demonstrations of a dream that began with Magus Asterabadi, instead of fostering it, instead of expanding it, we have seen its desecration and the advantage taken upon the poorly implemented system of democracy.

Instead of a charter of rights and obligations alike the Noblesse Oblige of auld, a citizen's cloth cuts only as deep, deep as their coin purse or the coin purse of the corrupt lobby that has made of them a debt-slave. A debt that cannot ever be paid, for this debt will grow larger than the shape of a man's footprint, and grow endlessly, like quicksand. It will bury us deep, and we will not escape.

Furthermore in the place of a constitution that speaks aloud the institutions and their duties in our Citadel, we have an agreement on paper but in actuality, a coalition of interests more aligned with their own than the people they deign to protect. We have the Accord. But as some would ever seek to deny this, to oppose the Accord is to oppose the standing harmony of Ephia's Well.

Co-prosperity in Ephia's Well means co-operation between the Leagues and the Accord signatories, each branch of this olive tree representing some core and fundamental part of the city, that without, that in its absence, would lead to its eventual and rapid collapse.

I would quite enjoy the notion of mutual respect between myself and a Purple, or myself and a Gold, but the fact of the matter is, they are cults of personalities and self-interested, hegemony seeking mad men that deal, steal and bring men to heel. One purports a dinarcracy ruled by oligarchs and corruption, the other seeks to make of Ephia's Well their blood-ruled Satrapy, with intervention at every cornerstone so we are reminded daily that we are not free. We are not free.

I myself, I support harmony and democracy. Harmony and democracy, not hegemony and dinarcracy.

I support every Ephian's dream, the dream that anyone from anywhere can call our city home, and thrive. My words can and shall, however, be twisted by those I accuse. For I accuse the would be leaders and officials of these Leagues, not the people within them whom have been misled into believing that the League of White supports and has ever supported tyranny, or that we lack the know-how and integrity to bring this city into the hopeful horizon. The truth is, we are the only League capable of doing so, and yet those who place status quo upon their tongue like it is a pretty word, are pulling the strings. They despise progress, and the League of White is PROGRESS incarnate.

E.L