Daes,

Dear boy, your delusional tendencies have progressed much further than I
thought, I suggest you seek the attention of a healer at the earliest
opportunity. I will not slander your House any further, as my dispute is
not with them, save only to note that any group which elects you as
their leader must have a serious lack of substantial leadership and,
further, that while the Serpentlords may well have a surfeit of numbers,
the Naga has a surfeit of talent. The two are hardly the same. "We are
assassins, thieves and spies..." so reads your manifesto, and yet with
the notable exceptions of my fiancee and her ex-husband, you have not
produced any notable examples of any of those professions in decades.

Now, as I understand it, your brief history as a thief consists of the
following "highlights": (1) your own shop is cleaned out by Szanthax,
(2) the personal stockroom of the House Master of the Serpentlords is
cleaned out by yours truly (organisationally it is yours, if not
personally), (3) you clean out the Ashura stockroom...and are promptly
scared so witless by their attentions and so cowed by your feckless city
leadership that you return every single item. A case study in how to
embarrass oneself through lack of backbone, courage and general
all-round worthlessness.

No doubt you have made a few profitable trips around the areas
frequented by youngsters - the Great Rock, Manara Burrow perhaps, but
any thief worth his salt knows that that is sniping fish in a barrel.
Profitable to be sure, but hardly noteworthy. Uncle dearest, any time
you want to review the numbers of unique items stolen, collections of
House, Order and City items, exchange stories of derring-do, just let me
know. It would do my heart good to see you slink off with your tail
between your legs.

You may have been elected leader of a minor House in a minor city
(through some form of collective organisational insanity, one must
assume), it doesn't mean that you have any class or style or skill.
Remove the title, Uncle. You're only embarrassing yourself.

Yours in familial concern,
Tenebrus, Grand Larcenist, Disposessor of the Mighty, Master of
Misappropriation; Lord of Legerdemain; Proselytist and Cutpurse.

Penned by my hand on the 14th of Ero, in the year 428 AF.