Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170105222240/@comment-24736819-20170201033711

"Here it is, sir.", the courier handed Knight-Commander Hugh the letter and stepped back to allow the knight privacy.

The letter carried the seal of the Adamantine Order and it all seemed very official:

Knight-Commander Ivo hugh, Sir.

''I write you this letter to explain the events which followed throughout the last year, an explanation that will be ensued by a warning. As you should be well aware, Sir, King Edgar Stentor was named Protector of the Realm after our High King's demise, which at the time seemed like a wise choice to us, knights of the realm.''

''King Edgar Stentor was later found guilty and executed due to his participation in his own cousin's death, in a shady and hurried way if I might add. Proofs of his doings were apparently strong enough for his conviction and I did not questioned it, even though such actions were uncharacteristically odd in the eyes of anyone who knew King Edgar, or even just heard of his doings. Unfortunately, for the evil doers of our lands, it came to my knowledge that the whole ordeal was but a plot to lift a noble family above all else in Shornhelm, giving them a throne that they did not deserved. That family was the Aulds and the plot's perpetrator was none other than Emeric Auld himself, clearly blind by greed.''

''Something had to be done and when the newly crowned King of Jehanna came to me alongside Knight-Commander Ormax Ondre of Fort Iceblade, I knew what path to follow. Naturally, being a servant of the Realm, I sent a messager, my own knighted squire Sir Tristan Gallahad, to inform the new High King about my findings and that I was in motion to make things right. Obviously, I requested the High King to inform my peers, as protocol, and to ask the nearest Forts to march against Shornhelm with me. A request that was left unanswered until the fateful day of the battle of Shornhelm.''

''Now, I had been fed what I thought to be lies by my new companions and I heard from Emeric Auld's own knighted child, Sir Cassander Auld, that not only his father was the responsible for what happened to our late High King, but the new High King was also in on it. Perien La Rouche. Despite Sir Cassander title, I thought his words were those of an angered person and dismissed them until the day we marched on Shornhelm. What we witnessed that day was the work of an evil person doing everythin in his power to hide the truth, truth which you are about to read.''

''I am a renowned knight, a renowned Commander of an Order which has truth and honor amongst its main directives and here I say to you, Perien La Rouche and Emeric Auld were responsible for the deaths of thousands innocents at the battle of Shornhelm when they hid and fired up explosives within the city. Knowing that their secret was about to be uncovered, they killed their own only to stop my side's forces from capturing Emeric, who fled the city in a act of cowardness only returning after Daggerfall's forces ended the battle with their arrival.''

''I fought against my own companions in this war, trying to do the knightly thing. Despite my best efforts, I was lacking. Since the beginning of this war I was lacking, seeing that I fought a hidden enemy for the entire time. An enemy, whom once saw his doom knocking at the door, decided to show himself. Unfortunately, for that enemy, I survived and with me the truth of what happened.''

''Therefore, I sent you all these letters which contain an ultimatum. Our Order has very strict rules, which I followed to the letter and now I'll be enforcing them. If you continue to follow King Perien as the High King, it will mean that even with the knowledge you now possess, you chose to follow a murderous, sniveling King who, so openly acted against the interests of High Rock in regards of his own interests. Hereby, I strip you of your titles and name you enemy of the realm.''

''Now, if those informations left you speechless and enraged, such as I was, I ask of you to join me in marching against Daggerfall to destitute its bloodlusty King and bring once again peace to our beloved land. I know that the content of this letter is a lot to digest and as such, we hopefully await for the true Knights of this lands to join us within two weeks from now at the borders of Daggerfall.''

Don't allow our great Order to become a madman's mercenary company of hounds!

Knight-Commander Doraleous Toreau of Fort Storig.