It never ceases to amaze me.

You forestals are so astonishingly parochial.. so blinkered in your
world view. A forest room has been holocausted. So... you replant the
room. Is it hard? Is it difficult? Is it ultimately problematic for
nature? No. Are there adequate stocks of herbs? Are there many other
places to harvest? Yes.

It is symptomatic of all of you that rather than embracing the
opportunity to start anew, to re-create, to innovate, instead you bemoan
the loss of a few plants. I remember once... I helped the Gardeners of
the Basilican gardens with their weeding. I gave them an opportunity to
entirely rethink the Basilican garden plan - which was, I must say,
extremely pass�. Was I rewarded? No. I was enemied to the forests.. What
was the difference between my minor, and helpful exterminations, to the
weeding that I was assured was about to happen? In practical terms,
nothing. However, I broke a minor Oakstone rule. No one had the breadth
of vision to understand me, and EVEN IF THEY HAD, no one, not even the
hierophants would have had the authority to let me off. Such is the
inflexibility and stupidity of Oakstone. How can one legislate a charter
and expect it to remain valid a century later? Foolishness. The world is
in flux; all is transient. Rules and regulations must always become
outmoded through the operation of time - but it would seem that this has
not occured to our primitive troglodyte brethren.

To finish: I am amused by your posts. You criticise Tiamat for holding
all forestals responsible for the actions of a few, yet Oakstone has a
track record of exactly the same measure. Herbs have been withheld from
Mhaldor many times in the past because of one or two. Frankly, I applaud
Tiamat in daring to defy the hypocritical, unpleasant, rigid and corrupt
organisation that is Oakstone.

Well done him.


Rhadamanthys Coldraven.

Penned by my hand on the 12th of Lupar, in the year 392 AF.