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Public News Post #19319

Well played

Written by: Ambassador Hiroma Moliuvia, Iron Alchemist
Date: Monday, December 9th, 2013
Addressed to: Daeir Wintermourne, Warden of the Hidden Blade


Daeir, I must say that your response was both well written and intelligent. Surprising, given the fact that Targossas' main exports are hatred, violence, and idiocy. Though, with any luck, that may change after you all have a few tradesmen. I'm honestly quite surprised anyone remembers my silly postings from my days as a youth, worshiping Lady Pandora. Kudos for your researching skills or your long memory, whichever that knowledge may be attributed to. I must confess that though I may salivate at the opportunity to mock your home and all those who reside there, I cannot lay claim to the damages wrought within. I'm always careful to towel off after trips to the lakes and upon returns from Ulangi, lest I drench my papers. As for transmutation, it is indeed fortunate that I no longer sell my curatives, lest the dangers you speak of befall some poor innocent individual.

Returning to the pointed of the damages in the Archives, I have to point the finger to the guilty party after being accused of such. I find it amusing that Targossas regularly comes and destroys the Archives, and gambling parlor. Considering that and the fact that most Targossians I've heard speak, yourself aside, are complete and utter idiots, this leads me to believe that Targossas is not the enemy of Chaos and Evil, but rather the bane of knowledge and entertainment. How does regularly attacking Ashtan's gambling parlor and the Archives assist with protecting Creation? By your own fellows' words, we live in ignorance, and yet you destroy your foes' center of knowledge? Seems to me that you and your ilk wish us to remain ignorant by that logic. If we do not serve you due to our profound ignorance, would it not be better to teach us?

No, no it would not. For as Sapience sees on a daily basis, Targossas is no friend of knowledge, nor intelligence, nor free will, nor even the good of the world. Nay, Targossas does what Targossas wants. Targossas doesn't attempt to speak to or teach Ashtani. No, Targossas comes and breaks our homes, our places of business, our centers of knowledge. Targossas comes and kills our people without regard to who is a soldier and who is not. And then, in Targossas' most grand of contradictions, Targossas claims to be helping everyone as they shatter our homes and bodies. Idiocy and a lack of foresight at best, and outright lies at worst. That is all I can gather from the words of most Targossans. Your lot demand servitude, attempt to prevent individuals from learning or enjoying themselves, force all your citizens to pray to your choice of Divines, and wantonly attack anyone and everyone whom you dislike. Hmm, now that I think on it, can't all those same things be said of Mhaldor? What a strange and amusing correlation. The Dawnspear is no more "Good" than anyone else, and it seems that everyone in Sapience realizes this except for the citizens of Targossas, which would make sense, seeing as Silas has alluded to the evils of free will, and the actions of Targossians are perfect evidence of their ignorance, even as they point an imperious finger at all around them, calling us heretics, blasphemers, ignorant, and worse.

Although it happens often enough to be irritating to most, I honestly don't care that Targossas is so violent. It reminds me so much of my dear Ashtan that it warms my apathetic little heart. Truly, your brutality is equal to if not greater than that of Ashtan's warriors, even if my fellows' quantity and quality far exceed the Dawnspear's. Strange, is it not, the amusing resemblances you bear to that of your hated enemies? So if you must send someone to kill me, please keep in mind that it's always amusing to me to have you all sink yourself low enough to hire assassins and to hunt down and murder those who speak out against you. At least Mhaldor is correct in their assessment of their actions. I've never spoken to a Mhaldorian stupid enough to claim their killing of innocent individuals is "Righteous" or "Good". Nor have I heard an Ashtani stupid enough to believe they have some kind of inborn right to slay anyone who gets in their way. Many Ashtani warriors may kill whomever they wish, but at least they don't consider it to be their right. We do as we wish, say as we wish, and believe as we wish. And despite these "failings", as Targossians would say, we still manage to, somehow, remain coordinated enough and powerful enough to match the Dawnspear on our worst day. However, I will leave it at that, as I believe this rant has gone on long enough.



Forever in service to the Bastion,
Greatest city in all Sapience,
Ambassador Hiroma Moliuvia


Penned by my hand on the 14th of Miraman, in the year 642 AF.


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