Chancellor,

You rest upon what is, without a doubt, the greatest stockpile of arrogance mustered by any one individual that I have ever had the immense misfortune of observing.

Let us make something -profoundly- clear in the wake of your response to King Tu'eras.

You, and Imperialist nation you represent, are a vile perversion of everything for which Cyrene once stood.

I don't need to educate you on Cyrene's founding and history. You know it as well as anyone; it is no well-kept secret. And yet you have the unmitigated GALL to pursue a tyrannical expansion of influence and perpetuate the machinations of a bloody war, to conquer a people your city was once oath-sworn to respect, and then play the petulant victim in the face of criticism from the very people you have conquered.

Moreover, you have the astounding NERVE to, in the same breath, refer to ANY of your people's recent actions and words as COMPASSIONATE?

I have seen many an impressive dancer leap, spin, and tumble with agility and grace across many a stage in my life. No doubt you, with your many more years than I, have seen more. But I have never seen anyone quite so mentally agile as yourself, to be so DISGUSTINGLY capable of somersaulting from one cognitive dissonance to the next. You make horrible threats and offer impossible bargains and then claim to do it out of RESPECT? You have none. You have demonstrated an absolute lack of respect and empathy ever since you took up the Chancellery, and one cannot help but wonder if any previous examples of you exhibiting such virtues were naught but a clever ruse put forth by an NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATH.

No other nation in the world would dream of dressing up the bloody path Cyrene has chosen to walk as COMPASSIONATE. How dare you, sir. How VERY dare you.

In your missive, you scorn even your own family, likening King Tu'eras to one of your grandchildren in the most negative of ways. If this is what family means to a man such as yourself, you who have in the past often lauded "family" one of your dearest values, then I shudder for your descendants, myself included.

I expect you will dismiss me as a "grandchild proclaiming how something is unfair", now. Clearly, family and fairness matter SO MUCH to you.

You are an odious, arrogant, twisted, perverse, conniving, unfeeling, traitorous weasel of a man. Everything you have done and everything you have built since the God-Emperor placed you at the helm of His pet project in adventurer governance has been knee-deep in blood. And you do it with glee.

You deserve to rot.

-Taelle Starling

Penned by my hand on the 23rd of Chronos, in the year 992 AF.