Indeed, if anyone else wishes to congratulate someone who has quite
happily robbed you, please do while loosening your purse strings? Ashtan
has many common enemies. One of them the recently enlightened, for want
of a better word, Mhaldorians who I did have much respect until the
course of this year. Do you dare harken the words of Ashtan again? The
same old call of crushing Shallam, yet oddly enough, every year where
did the effigy end? On the barely assembled streets of Ashtan. You saw
through this illusion, just as much as you have tried to cast a poor lie
through a man with no morals. Of course, you would have a far better
advantage re-joining the very city that cast out your forefathers, i'm
sure that teat might even revive your naga house with enough suckling.

But I once saw Mhaldor, with it's relatively small size, crush and
decimate Ashtan in the CTF. It is indeed true that Mhaldor has no
friends, but it certainly never found much of one in Ashtan. Merely, a
master to subjugate yourselves towards. Someone to suffer under indeed,
I can see the compelling.

Tenebrus may mock and chide the relationship of Cyrene and Shallam, but
you can say it was never, ever more pathetic than the days of Ashtan and
Mhaldor. Though of course, the city of freedom did profit mightily and
seems to be suggesting that possiblity again. Though from my books, it
seems there is not quite so much confidence in that. I do not in the
slightest feel any right to command Mhaldor in whom to attack, they are
to their own, and I at least have respect in them for that. If indeed it
have wavered recently.

--Finchy

Penned by my hand on the 4th of Glacian, in the year 450 AF.