As the Ashtanite opens its mouth, a torrent of blind, brain-washed words
comes gushing out . . . drenching all about it with hypocritical
pomposity, the world is blinded by the 'free' lies criminality.

Is Ashtan not a Democracy? There for, one can only surmise that the
majority of such a City State will dictate which side should or should
not be joined. And I ask you this Achaea, who keeps Ashtans authority's
in power?

The weak within such an institution will flock to the majority's cause,
seeking recognition and respect amongst their pears. They will not
create their own opinions with the freedom their city is so proud of,
instead they are encouraged to be chameleons, changing personal
philosophies at whim in the vain hope that it may get them some
recognition from their corrupt authority's.

This, is how Ashtan controls its populace . . . suffocating social
conventions, pig ignorant righteous moral structures . . . it will
freeze out that which it doesn't want and all the time it hides behind
this fasard of freedom and justice!

Sartanites, Darkeys, Vastanarians even . . . all victim to the moral
majority of Ashtan . . . all enemy's to Ashtans freedom, because they
used its freedom to stand up against the authorities that are dragging
this once great City's name threw the proverbial mud.

Because they up-healed 'Un-Ashtinnean' ideologies.

Ashtan . . . *spits* . . . 'tis a lie and nothing else . . .

Achaeans, be cautious when you listen to the silky words of Ashtans
puppets. For they do not understand the meaning of the sounds that spill
forth from their wooden lips, for 'tis their masters who place them
there . . . they pull the strings and then the puppets miss-associate
their controlled movements with the freedom their masters carved into
their faces . . .

I am a man of the quill, not the blade. I am no mindless thug, but a
scholar, thinker, philosopher and preacher. We in Mhaldor understand our
short-comings in the last Crossing, and our shame is great . . . but do
not assume that this post is some childish retaliation against this
situation. Nay, one could not be further from the truth, we will take
this failure on the chin and learn from our mistakes. For failure causes
pane, and pane is an integral number in the equation of perfection.


Nay, this post is a retaliation against Ashtans point blank denial of
the allegations brort against them.

Ashtan, you are the city of the Free, and yet every crossing you go out
and help up-hold a totalitarian regime with far more fascist leanings
than us here in Mhaldor.

Your false freedom is no justification for this blatant hypocrisy.

The Rev. Lodi Vespic de'Ta'sa

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Penned by my hand on the 13th of Daedalan, in the year 333 AF.