House Shavsbane
Posted by Orrin on 07/29/19
Events surrounding the Grayreeve rebellion in the gray forest led House Seliki to survey the lands near those we defend. We found in the name of tradition an extensive slaughter of Abandoned tribes. We are people of our word and of the Compact, and were the tribes in question aggressors, attacking Compact brethren, we might have celebrated their demise. We are also of the Faith; were the tribes in question engaged, as we have seen, in heresies and atrocities, we might have celebrated their demise. But these tribes slain were neither; they were peaceful nomads and traders that we have had no quarrel with save their desire to remain independent. They were cut down trying to flee, their homes burnt, dead left to rot in mass graves.
We do not reject what arms can yield. Indeed, we fight as the gods demand: for justice, redress of wrongs, and the purpose of freedom. The campaign of House Shavsbane and others under the pretense of tradition bears no marking of nobility, but of barbarous cruelty. Should they find quarrel with our newly knelt citizenry, they may answer first to our swords. They have no quarter or business in our lands nor with our people, and we will have none with them.
By my hand,
Count Orrin Seliki
Count of Pearlspire
--- Bisland Stance via Gabriel ---
War is an ugly business, but there are some things far uglier. This behavior will not be tolerated.
We do not reject what arms can yield. Indeed, we fight as the gods demand: for justice, redress of wrongs, and the purpose of freedom. The campaign of House Shavsbane and others under the pretense of tradition bears no marking of nobility, but of barbarous cruelty. Should they find quarrel with our newly knelt citizenry, they may answer first to our swords. They have no quarter or business in our lands nor with our people, and we will have none with them.
By my hand,
Count Orrin Seliki
Count of Pearlspire
--- Bisland Stance via Gabriel ---
War is an ugly business, but there are some things far uglier. This behavior will not be tolerated.