Loyalties have been declared and are known regardless of acceptance, or consideration of fairness. Accusations flow like a fast-moving river current. The balance of power should be recognized by the astute, there will always be mitigating factors and possibilities, but sometimes a regrettable outcome seems inevitable.

Ignoring all the ways the Village of Eleusis has been called a city, or implied to be a city, as being inflammatory and rude or potentially unintentional it is still so wrong to be considering Eleusis to be acting in alliance with any City! It should not be questioned that Eleusis is in support of Titania, the Dryad Queen. Indeed it would not be worth making a Public News post to say such.

Would anyone seriously think any of the Cities to be so dedicated to a figure devoted to the reclamation of urban constructions to the embrace of Nature? I am another small person only daring to speak out of line because of the business occupying the leaders of my Village, but I have spent enough time listening and contributing to the chatter to be aware of many sentiments held within.

No matter who wins this Reckoning and is awarded the lofty position of joining the Conclave, everyone who bitterly struggled to raise a candidate will remember this time as a time that the woods filled with the piled bodies of city-dwellers. Yes I know there's the place with the person that's not a forest because it's a Thera.

But after hearing far too much claims that Eleusis can only fight at sea or that it has a raider population numbering in the bottom half of Sapience's sovereign adventurer states, maybe this Reckoning will provide a much needed opportunity for the world to be reminded of the territorial capabilities of forestals especially with access to favourable terrains.

Just a sapling,
Sapling Leiri, of the Fiery Rose

Penned by my hand on the 7th of Sarapin, in the year 827 AF.