Dear High Warden,

You may consider this my formal appeal, as I have no interest in letters being lost in your inbox.

I would like to begin with a question which has pestered me the last couple of days;

What the hell is an Elder Tree?

I have since discovered it is a tree spirit. I can confidently say I have done nothing to any tree spirits nor the trees in which they live.

The tone of your post suggests that this is recent, and I can further confidently say that I have not been involved in testing nor deployment of any 'spike bombs' in decades.

Further, I am not in civic leadership, nor within any inner circle. I resigned my army commission a few months ago in fact. You could say I'm presently retired from public life.

I mention this to drive home the point that I couldn't even tell you what those explosions you mentioned were about if I wanted to, as I have no idea. I didn't even know where they were doing them, as I was on Meropis and I cannot farsee people who have been reduced to chunks. Someone actually asked me about them and I said that they were probably left-over munitions on their last legs, because as far as I knew, we haven't had supplies in ages.

But as I said, they don't tell me stuff.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that this is probably in error and would request that you to retract it in a way that I and everyone else is aware of.

Should you insist on your false information, I will use all methods at my disposal to secure the safety of my person.

Until then, I will be building as I have been doing all year. A year that involved absolutely no explosives, but quite a bit of artistry and design. The only spirits under threat from me are those of my poor stewards who must figure out how to fulfill all of my increasingly unhinged ideas.

I hope this clarifies.

Countess Nezaya Visindi,
Witch


Penned by my hand on the 15th of Sarapin, in the year 987 AF.