"If a law prevents you from your task, rewrite it. If a moral gives you pause, expunge it. If a man stands in your way, cut him down. Any obstacle that impedes us is our foe, and the foe of all Creation."

This is one of your rules, your Axioms of Righteousness? And you dare to claim you're any kind of unique in your motivations? Pure? Laughable. Let's break that law down, shall we?

"If a law prevents you from your task, rewrite it." So... rules aren't important if they don't agree with your motives... Sounds rather anarchic.

"If a moral gives you pause, expunge it." So morality is as irrelevant to you as laws. So anarchic and amoral... Interesting.

"If a man stands in your way, cut him down." So murder is totally acceptable, as long as you're the ones murdering. Arrogant, self-important, and immoral. Though, I suppose that, per my previous point, relatively useless to note here. Though it IS entertaining to point out your lack of morality.

"Any obstacle that impedes us is our foe, and the foe of all Creation." So we're back to arrogance and self-importance, on an even more extreme level. Though extremism is no stranger to Shallam or Targossas. Or Mhaldor or Ashtan, for that matter.

So, in the end, we've found that you're a group of anarchic, amoral, self-important, arrogant murderers with no regard to the well-being or wishes of those around you, all simultaneously suffering from severe delusions of grandeur and wrongfully believing you're any more moral or righteous than your average Mhaldorian or Ashtani,

At least Ashtani and Mhaldorians are honest with themselves, if not everyone else.


Yours in all due sincerity,
And forever in service to the Bastion of the North,
Masterful Metallurgist, Hiroma Moliuvia, Iron Alchemist

P.S., I am fully aware that one of you anarchic, amoral, self-important, arrogant, delusion-ridden murderous psychopaths will likely go home crying for a while that I insulted your ever-shining-and-glorious Morningfork, and subsequently hire on me. I find this to be a minimal concern, and (obviously) entirely predictable, per this prediction.

If given evidence to the contrary of this behavior, such as even making an attempt at a peaceful resolution with any faction without the over-hanging threat of violence, I will happily consider the reconsideration of my above words. I'm not as unreasonable as some.

Penned by my hand on the 25th of Glacian, in the year 655 AF.