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Public News Post #3585

Breaking the Treaty

Written by: Mistral, of the Wild Blue Yonder
Date: Saturday, January 1st, 2000
Addressed to: Everyone


If you want to accuse anyone of breaking the treaty, please make use of
concrete evidence & gather witnesses, then get someone official on your
side to make a public post about it, rather than incessant rantings just
because you have broken the treaty, got the warnings and become an
enemy of three cities yourselves.

In other words, how can one like me trust the words of one like Dalamar,
whose words have very little weight with me, if at all? His credibility
was lost on me long time ago, when he tried to get away with killing me
while I was watching the arena.

About all this argument whether one is protected by the treaty or not,
breaking the treaty or not, I'd like to point out one thing. As long as
one remains a citizen of Ashtan, Hashan or Shallam, one is bound by the
terms of the treaty, and is protected by the same as well. In that sense,
performing a rite of convocation on any citizen of any city without the
subject's consent is breaking the treaty, no matter whether it is a
personal war or a war between cities.

About Shastaan, Ashtan hasn't made any agreement or treaty with Shanugis,
so Isamu wasn't breaking any treaty in defiling a shrine in Shastaan.
Ashtan has only agreed to two shrines in Azdun, no shrine on the highway
the Flame to Minia (Thera included), and no defiling on the rest of the
highway.

We may negotiate & argue all day & night over which shrine is protected,
which not, but I am having serious doubts how well it may be enforced,
considering that only the church members may make queries on the
shrines in regards to defilers. It is still beyond my understanding, but
I have been made aware of the mysteries of church members being
involved in defiling their own shrines. If a church member is out there
to splatter defiling blood on a shrine, perhaps in attempt to bait the
next defiler, it is still an act in breach of the treaty.

Penned by my hand on the 13th of Lupar, in the year 237 AF.


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Public News Post #3585

Breaking the Treaty

Written by: Mistral, of the Wild Blue Yonder
Date: Saturday, January 1st, 2000
Addressed to: Everyone


If you want to accuse anyone of breaking the treaty, please make use of
concrete evidence & gather witnesses, then get someone official on your
side to make a public post about it, rather than incessant rantings just
because you have broken the treaty, got the warnings and become an
enemy of three cities yourselves.

In other words, how can one like me trust the words of one like Dalamar,
whose words have very little weight with me, if at all? His credibility
was lost on me long time ago, when he tried to get away with killing me
while I was watching the arena.

About all this argument whether one is protected by the treaty or not,
breaking the treaty or not, I'd like to point out one thing. As long as
one remains a citizen of Ashtan, Hashan or Shallam, one is bound by the
terms of the treaty, and is protected by the same as well. In that sense,
performing a rite of convocation on any citizen of any city without the
subject's consent is breaking the treaty, no matter whether it is a
personal war or a war between cities.

About Shastaan, Ashtan hasn't made any agreement or treaty with Shanugis,
so Isamu wasn't breaking any treaty in defiling a shrine in Shastaan.
Ashtan has only agreed to two shrines in Azdun, no shrine on the highway
the Flame to Minia (Thera included), and no defiling on the rest of the
highway.

We may negotiate & argue all day & night over which shrine is protected,
which not, but I am having serious doubts how well it may be enforced,
considering that only the church members may make queries on the
shrines in regards to defilers. It is still beyond my understanding, but
I have been made aware of the mysteries of church members being
involved in defiling their own shrines. If a church member is out there
to splatter defiling blood on a shrine, perhaps in attempt to bait the
next defiler, it is still an act in breach of the treaty.

Penned by my hand on the 13th of Lupar, in the year 237 AF.


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