The Rain-Lotus Declaration
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:21 pm
MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM TALA
DAY OF RAINS AND LOTUS, AURORA SEASON, S'5907
All through the past week, Tala has been a hive of activity as the government of Raikoth tries to respond to the latest developments in the Northern Benacia region. Oracles, bureaucrats, priests, ambercasters, and axiomancers* have stayed up long into the waning hours of the midnight sun, frantically calling and emailing and comparing calculations with one another.
This morning, the various systems seem to have reached a stable equilibrium, and one of the Councilors made a public appearance beside the Dream-Origin Stone to announce wide-ranging government policy changes on a host of issues, the contents of which announcements I now relay to you.
Raikoth hereby alters its status from a County of Shireroth to a Territory of Shireroth. It will continue to follow Shirerithian law and swear allegiance to the Shirerithian Crown, but its citizens are no longer automatically Shirerithian citizens and it will not hold a voice in the Landsraad. Raikothin citizens may continue to be counted with Shireroth for bookkeeping purposes, especially as relates to the MCS, but will not participate in Shirerithian public life.
All negotiations with the Elwynnese state are officially over. Although we once saw them as a legitimate project for the glory and further development of Elwynnese culture, recent events, including the vehemence of the Retrocession controversy, the breakdown of informal talks with Prince Daniel, and the public comments of Lord Erion, have disillusioned us of this view. We believe the Elwynnese state is an attempt by one or more foreign empires to acquire Elwynn as a trophy, after which it will be left to rot in a state of cultural and material poverty, just as many of the same noble houses tried, and eventually succeeded, in acquiring and neutering Treesia and other once-great lands. It disappoints us that, after ten years of Shireroth carefully raising Elwynn from infancy and nurturing its every need, as soon as being anti-Shireroth becomes a fad, the Duchy would desert her and run off to throw its lot in with any other power it can find, and though we wish it the best, we expect the worst.
Raikoth intends to annex Wintergleam and Agnesia as protectorates unless there is a Kaiserial objection. The lands of Raikoth, Cimmeria, Bjorngard, Wintergleam, and Agnesia will be integrated into a political unit called Lirikoth Syaivene, "Rightly-Guided Elwynn". Here we will try to form a sanctuary for the Elw in case the dark fate we forsee for the rebels comes to pass.
The Rhavakalion Raikoth** will take upon themselves the responsibility of protecting the small frontier between Syiavene and Lirikoth Moivaster, "Elwynn That Has Strayed", as well as the far northern frontier between Moivaster and Raikoth itself. We will seek negotiations with the Kildari about sharing the defense of the main frontier between Illumination and Isderia-Farewell.
The instability to our west makes it especially pressing that we keep our home islands as peaceful and united as possible so we can face the foreign threat as one. Some of you may have heard of the recent bombing in Cimmeria. A league of Cimmerian rebels under the command of clan chieftain and minor religious leader Otter Sundrawer has claimed responsibility. We will be sending Fern and Rose divisions of the Paladins to Cimmeria to find Sundrawer and his men and bring them to justice. Any further disruptions in the Cimmeria territories or in any other lands of Kai-Raikoth and Lirikoth Syaivene will be met with unusually severe deterrence.
In the center of Echo, we have commissioned leading architect Nevri Surudenion to build a great cathedral to the goddess Lirie***, Lady of the White Orchid. It represents our invocation of her blessing that her lands will endure, flower, and one day be reunited again.
* Amber is used as a currency in Raikoth, therefore "ambercasters" is a term for investors, especially the ones who power Tala's prediction markets. Axiomancers are priests who distill values and help guide national policy.
** The Paladins of Hyperborea
*** More commonly called "Elwynn"
DAY OF RAINS AND LOTUS, AURORA SEASON, S'5907
All through the past week, Tala has been a hive of activity as the government of Raikoth tries to respond to the latest developments in the Northern Benacia region. Oracles, bureaucrats, priests, ambercasters, and axiomancers* have stayed up long into the waning hours of the midnight sun, frantically calling and emailing and comparing calculations with one another.
This morning, the various systems seem to have reached a stable equilibrium, and one of the Councilors made a public appearance beside the Dream-Origin Stone to announce wide-ranging government policy changes on a host of issues, the contents of which announcements I now relay to you.
Raikoth hereby alters its status from a County of Shireroth to a Territory of Shireroth. It will continue to follow Shirerithian law and swear allegiance to the Shirerithian Crown, but its citizens are no longer automatically Shirerithian citizens and it will not hold a voice in the Landsraad. Raikothin citizens may continue to be counted with Shireroth for bookkeeping purposes, especially as relates to the MCS, but will not participate in Shirerithian public life.
All negotiations with the Elwynnese state are officially over. Although we once saw them as a legitimate project for the glory and further development of Elwynnese culture, recent events, including the vehemence of the Retrocession controversy, the breakdown of informal talks with Prince Daniel, and the public comments of Lord Erion, have disillusioned us of this view. We believe the Elwynnese state is an attempt by one or more foreign empires to acquire Elwynn as a trophy, after which it will be left to rot in a state of cultural and material poverty, just as many of the same noble houses tried, and eventually succeeded, in acquiring and neutering Treesia and other once-great lands. It disappoints us that, after ten years of Shireroth carefully raising Elwynn from infancy and nurturing its every need, as soon as being anti-Shireroth becomes a fad, the Duchy would desert her and run off to throw its lot in with any other power it can find, and though we wish it the best, we expect the worst.
Raikoth intends to annex Wintergleam and Agnesia as protectorates unless there is a Kaiserial objection. The lands of Raikoth, Cimmeria, Bjorngard, Wintergleam, and Agnesia will be integrated into a political unit called Lirikoth Syaivene, "Rightly-Guided Elwynn". Here we will try to form a sanctuary for the Elw in case the dark fate we forsee for the rebels comes to pass.
The Rhavakalion Raikoth** will take upon themselves the responsibility of protecting the small frontier between Syiavene and Lirikoth Moivaster, "Elwynn That Has Strayed", as well as the far northern frontier between Moivaster and Raikoth itself. We will seek negotiations with the Kildari about sharing the defense of the main frontier between Illumination and Isderia-Farewell.
The instability to our west makes it especially pressing that we keep our home islands as peaceful and united as possible so we can face the foreign threat as one. Some of you may have heard of the recent bombing in Cimmeria. A league of Cimmerian rebels under the command of clan chieftain and minor religious leader Otter Sundrawer has claimed responsibility. We will be sending Fern and Rose divisions of the Paladins to Cimmeria to find Sundrawer and his men and bring them to justice. Any further disruptions in the Cimmeria territories or in any other lands of Kai-Raikoth and Lirikoth Syaivene will be met with unusually severe deterrence.
In the center of Echo, we have commissioned leading architect Nevri Surudenion to build a great cathedral to the goddess Lirie***, Lady of the White Orchid. It represents our invocation of her blessing that her lands will endure, flower, and one day be reunited again.
* Amber is used as a currency in Raikoth, therefore "ambercasters" is a term for investors, especially the ones who power Tala's prediction markets. Axiomancers are priests who distill values and help guide national policy.
** The Paladins of Hyperborea
*** More commonly called "Elwynn"