Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20150518062512/@comment-24696651-20150523001650

As the crowd began cheering, Lysander felt himself slipping into a manic euphoria. The sane part of his mind noted that what would have been pleasant surprise at the success of his speech warped into something else. The sane part of his mind was rapidly shrinking, and it's final comment was that debate was perhaps not best suited to a manic-depressive. But nevertheless, Lysander spoke.

"I have seen precious little of this idyllic Daggerfall you present to me," Lysander replied. "I haven't seen safe roads, nor streets free of beggars, nor a well-fed and educated workforce. I have seen beggars on streets, roads preyed upon by bandits, and people starving in the gutter. If your own kingdom is divided against itself, if you cannot provide the food and wages to keep the workers safe from a life of poverty and crime, then how can you possibly bring Daggerfall, nay, High Rock, to greatness? How can you fight this war? Why should we trust you, a man who indulges in lavish feasts and sleeps in decadent satin and silk beds, while his own people starve in the woods? The only work you have had to do is to see that those who try to spread the light of truth see the darkness of your dungeons, whilst your guards fail to keep innocent people safe as they accept a bribe from another bandit!

You say that I want to see brother against brother, father against son. That could not be farther from the truth. I wish to see all Bretons united under one glorious nation under Aetherius. But what is a life under a king who would threaten to imprison those who disagree with him, who fails to feed his people, who is a mere puppet whose strings are pulled by the Thalmor? And at the last, brave Bretons, I ask you this: if a king would infiltrate a meeting at the beer hall of good folk, if a king would bear arms against those realise the truth, if a king would seek to imprison one of his own people who dared, for one second, to dream, then what sort of king is he? Certainly, not a king worthy of the great people I see before me!"