To everyone involved in this futile struggle against one another, I
offer a few words of diplomacy, something which seems to have been
forgotten in the haste to insult and debase eachother.

To the followers of Chaos:

Your cause is right. You have been assaulted, and I do not fault you for
calling to arms your compatriots. I do not have much to say towards your
reaction to this new threat against you, as I do believe I would act
much the same in your shoes. But! I beg of you to stay open-minded, as
you are proponents of such.

To Rho and the New Templars:

I am vastly disappointed in the way with which you employ violence and
destruction to prove your point. I thought you and your followers far
more intelligent and sage than to provoke a very real, very dangerous
threat to your own people even amidst the -constant- attacking of your
people by Mhaldor and your 'enemies' (the list grows longer and longer
every day, to the point that I have come to believe you must simply
enjoy conflict). I am no general, no warrior, no soldier or priest, but
a simple poet...but I can honestly say that your move in this particular
game was a rash one, and not one that will benefit your home, your Gods,
or your people in any way. Needless death is no substitute for
intelligent reasoning between equally-damned mortals.

Your reference to the Burning Times is loathsome, indeed, in light of
the tragedy and suffering those people endured under the onslaught of
the proponents of 'Good' at the time. I can understand how the Luminai
were worried about the threat of Occultism and the encroachment of Chaos
in those times...but now? Today? We are a sane, intelligent people at
our best, but we can't look past the sterotype of the 'heart-eating',
'blood drinking' Occultist of ages past, and begin to understand that we
are all but pawns in a game of chess profound beyond the reach of our
disadvantaged and oh-too-mortal minds? I beg of you that you listen to
your reason at this point, and not your ego, and come to the realization
that a balance can and will be struck, by force or by nature, between
any and all factions that our world is divided into. It's inevitable.
You throw yourselves at Chaos as if it were an unintelligent child that
stole a bit of candy from the sweets shoppe. These are people, just like
you, that follow their own system of beliefs, just as you do. And these
people, until now, have left your lot alone on a grand scale, as opposed
to what you are facing now, with their entirety provoked into ire. If
they ask freedom to pursue their own aims and dreams, what entitles
anyone to stop them? We are all given the freedom of choice, and for you
to damn them for using it is only hypocrisy, for you command the same
freedom in following your own goals in serving the Light. I think of you
far more highly than that, and I don't want to see you and your people
led to your deaths, no matter the end, for taking for granted something
that was gifted to the mortals of our world by the Logos Himself.

With high hopes I sign,

Soulfyriani Lokelinde, Wand'ring Bard

Penned by my hand on the 13th of Valnuary, in the year 458 AF.