To all those to whom Sapience is called home,

Firstly I must say to Thera that I am deeply sorry for what occured, we
were your ally and so the people of Ashtan cannot avoid the burden of
grief and guild coming from your destruction.

We face here a danger greater than any I have known in my years upon
Sapience, we face a mortal danger, and unknown threat, and we do not
know how to stop it. Certainly we the people of Ashtan, even with the
aid of Mhaldor, have shown no progression in our endeavours to stem the
tide of Vertani progression.

We are facing an "ascendant wave", not just Ashtan, not just Thera, not
any city alone, nor any individual alone, but the whole of Sapience
together is facing the domination of those from outside. A grain of sand
is enveloped by a wave, but together the beach might hold back the
ocean.

As I held a memorial service for the destruction of Thera, which was
attended by numerous members of all cities of Sapience, and those from
without, it struck me that we were all united by common grief, that a
piece of our world had been lost. As much as we fight and argue, we do
not stop existing, and we all share our common grain as the people of
Sapience, this is what can unite us in times of need.

In the time of Nicator the people of Sapience were persuaded of a common
good, and then united over a threat from without. We do not have the
luxury of a common good, or Seleucar, but as we face this conquering
dominion, who have shown themselves to be powerful upon a scale none of
us can achieve but by the will of the divine, we must unite through our
common grains, and form that final beach head of free peoples or else be
swept away by the tide.

It is an old maxim, but wise, that united we stand, divided we fall.
Therefore I call upon the free peoples of Sapience, the cities, the
villages, the forests, the wanderers, and any others that share in this
world, to stand and protect their home and freedom from invasion.
For those cities such as Shallam, who choose not to react as a city, I
call upon the free citizens to take their personal responsibility and
stand with their fellow mortals upon the battlefields.

This is a moment of decision, indecision will be ruin. Atrocities such
as the genocide of Thera cannot be overlooked, and we all must react.

Heed theses words for they may yet save our lands,

Mendax Mendacis, free person of Sapience

Penned by my hand on the 11th of Glacian, in the year 385 AF.