by channe » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:23 am
The boy who couriers this message to Lothbury is, understandably, breathless.
Seneschal:
While we all wish to see the drow threat eradicated, doing so at the cost of more Myrken Wood lives is inadvisable and against the law.
While there are no laws against bounties themselves, your instructions may plunge this province into bloodlust, and there are laws against that -- and the result of bounties, which is murder. Farm-boys who should be staying at home will end up as corpses when the creatures attempt to defend themselves. People will turn against their neighbors in an unneeded, idiotic witch-hunt, in which innocent blood will be spilled. It is the course of history, sir, and I will be damned if I let it happen here.
I charge you to withdraw your bounty on the individual drow. Not every drow citizen in our province is a supporter of Audmathus; also, you must leave the prosecution of drow associates, when they are uncovered, to the law as is meet and proper. By all means, however, offer the bounty on Audmathus -- it was how the beast was slaughtered last time, wasn't it?
You have your sovereign rights, yes, but you also have no right to bypass the lawful government of this land. Repeal this bounty or the Council will respond within the instructions the law gives us in this case. If one innocent life is destroyed because of your instructions, murder charges will be brought.
There are other ways of getting what we want -- the death of the drow Audmathus, his Successor Faeryl, and the drow that follow their disgusting lead -- without sacrificing the lives of good men and women to utter insanity. We have Janeiro and the militia and we plan to use them. We are not beasts like they; we should not stoop to such bestial madness.
We are far better men, yes?
Coriolanus Helstone
Governor of Myrken Wood