Hail and soft greetings to you, citizens of Sapience, and travelers from
distant lands.

I apologize for the hubris I must be exhibiting in writing such a public
missive, but I implore you to spend a moment and consider what I say. I
know the topic must be of great importance, even though I am not for it
brought the wrath of Eleusis, in a gathering of no less than eleven of
their fine warriors led by Delphinus himself to batter me, alone, to a
pile of bones on the banks of the Zaphar. This was of course preceded by
many threats, and promises of violence in righteous retribution for my
heinous acts. Including , but not limited to, threatening to somehow
expose me as a spy or traitor to anyone who would listen, and the threat
of using the punishment of a God to have me enemied to Oakstone as a
means of assuring my docile surrender to the will of Eleusis.

Sorry to disappoint them but, the first one has already been done. I am
still enemied to my beloved Ashtan, and will remain so until such a time
as they see fit to bring me home. I have no care for who or what else
may cast me out for Ashtan has my whole heart. The second threat is why
I am writing this letter to you. While I am not an erstwhile supporter
of Evil, and I do not reckon to the Seven Truths even as I sleep on a
couch in Mhaldor, they said something many years ago, even prior to the
arrival of the red fog, which is becoming clear to me as having a tone
of truth to it. Some of the elder forestals of Eleusis who double as
Hierophants on the Council of Oakstone past, present, or with future
aspirations, have wielded so much power for so long in the realm of all
things Nature that they seem to think themselves above reproach when
they abuse their influence.

This does not begin and end with the pack-like attacking for the
resurrections of soldiers who die in battle, who happen to be forest
enemies, or the cruel threat of using my punishment to have me enemied.
They enemied a young woman who was yanked out of the sky, who was in the
process of creating a bomb which would have caused damage to nature, but
did not, because the grove was preserved. This knee-jerk reaction of
naming her an enemy to Oakstone was amended, but others like it have not
been. She was also told to consider herself lucky that one of the
council was taking pity on her. Entire parties of soldiers are enemied
because one of the party acted against nature, by himself, outside the
knowledge of the party. And the one that really bothers me, the only
copy of the Oakstone charter is inside a great library in Eleusis, where
it can not be read by any enemy of Eleusis, and I have been denied
access to a copy on three occasions. Once as a librarian.

I digress, my apologies. This is not a missive about the Evils of
Mhaldor or Oakstone. I simply want those who keep coming to threaten me
and beat me to understand. Like many other individuals in this world, I
love Nature. I abhor her injury, and it saddens me to force my will on
her when I must resurrect her enemies. But I do so as a matter of course
in this war. I accuse the Eleusians of being every bit as guilty as I
am, of harming Nature by forcing her will, every time I have to force
her to resurrect an enemy who is only an enemy of Nature because it was
a convenient way to punish an enemy of Eleusis, and not because that
person Willfully and Intentionally did cause harm, or Actively Aid
another in causing harm to Nature.

In Service,

Jaisiane


Penned by my hand on the 10th of Lupar, in the year 543 AF.