I wondered when we would be subjected to the plaintive crowings of Truax. After your utter failure of a tenure as City Leader--from its ignominious start by shoving out a more competent Archon, through its ineffectual length marked by a string of abject failures, to its embarrassing culmination with your long-overdue ouster--one would have expected you to gracefully retire to a life of quiet solitude. I hear sifting clay and gold from the riverbeds is theraputic work. Instead, you come to the boards with your puffed up proclamations and expect to be taken seriously. La, more fun for the rest of us.

The discerning reader will have noticed some... inconsistencies in the Archon's pabulum. However, in fairness we are discussing a very delicate situation. Negotiating your loyalty to City and Order is a challenging task. Who takes precedence? When do you put aside your concerns as a citizen in favor of your beliefs as a supplicant? These questions should be treated with careful deliberation. They should certainly not be handwaved with such casual indifference. We agree that this conflict is city versus city, but perhaps the Archon has not taken this line of reasoning to its obvious conclusion. Truax characterizes Hashan as "insinuating that Aegean Eleusians should draw back from shrine defense because of something that none of us has the power to stop: Oblivion's encroachment." It is my understanding that the raison d'etre of Eleusis is to fight this encroachment with tooth and claw, and outcome be damned. Aegean Eleusians are then faced with a dillemma: support their Ordermates in Ashtan--Ordermates who, like the Archon, so blithely conflate their professed love of conflict with their undeniable hunger for Oblivion--or defend Nature. The deafening silence from the non-Aegeans in Eleusis gives scant hope that Nature is remembered as anything more than a word to shout to the world without context.

Standing as I do outside the Order of War, I cannot comment on the internal justifications the Aegeans use to excuse their incomprehensible actions. I cannot tell you why the Order would brag about getting help to attack Darkness from four other Orders. I would not presume to speculate as to why an Aegean would volunteer for a Ministry position in Hashan while refusing to attack our long-time enemies in the Ashtani. And I would certainly not ask you to take my word over the evidence of your own eyes and logic. Our mission in hashan is simple: to speak truth and awaken minds. Exposing the hypocrisy and demagoguery that cloak the true intentions of the Ashtani is our only aim here.

One final thought, for those who believe only the posts put forth on these boards and not the actions behind them. Our answer to Aegeans can be summed up in three little words: Bring. It. On.

For Truth,
Ammar

Penned by my hand on the 12th of Phaestian, in the year 814 AF.