I would like to first of all state that I do not hold a personal war or
grudge against the Infernals. My Divine Patron stays out of such
matters. I am guided in this by nothing but the powers of observation.
This is what I see.
I see a great many sheep rushing about in panic. I see a great many
empty voices screaming false threats. I see a great deal of hot air and
pretty slogans thrown about. Cut the fluff, Malaclypse. You threw down
the glove at the meeting, when you should have been throwing an eye
sigil. We're calling you on your bluff.
You want us brought down to our knees? Attack us from within? You want
the city to bow down to you and apologize because we did not wipe you
out for sanctifying landmarks, for attacking us?
Fine. Bring your fighters. Bring your men. Come out of the shadows, for
you have no right to slink there. You claim you have honour. You claim
you have pride. I have respected you greatly in my youth, Malaclypse. I
do not know what happened, but you are not the knight I once saw as a
brilliant leader.
Come out and support your threats, knight of a five room house, or admit
to what you are. You think you can challenge the Bastion? You think you
cannot be stopped by the coalition of the Gods? Show us more than
huffing and puffing, then. I hear those scream the loudest who would die
to a single bite of my chimera, and I admit I am by no means a top
fighter.
Although you do have a point. You can't be stopped from what you're
doing now. One cannot stop another from doing nothing.
Lord Sartan is acting according to His nature, as is His right as an
Immortal, which is beyond our place to question. But you have chosen to
follow Him. So do it. Don't sit there and scream how you'll do this and
that and can do such and such. Do it. Dance the dance of war with us,
Malaclypse Thorn and Co. Or are you afraid that by your very own codex
you will turn out to be a weak sheep and be eliminated?
But I do not live by the 7 'truths'. I do not live by your code. And
neither does Ashtan. The city is no longer your toy to play with. Are
you going to run crying now?
As to your reply to Deven, we would not give you the pride of thinking
yourself a great big bully. You are not. It is the principle of you that
abhors us. The very idea that you dare to challenge the Bastion of the
North. The very idea that you dare to stand against seven of the Divine.

Your words are empty. Come support them, or admit them for the false
claims they are.
To those Infernals and followers of Sartan out there who retain a sense
of honour and loyalty, I ask you, look around. It is not Ashtan that
brought you to this. Find the cause. I am personally willing to speak
with any who would rather follow reason than blind, simpering, sulky
hatred.

It is not with honour or strength that Ashtan has issues. It is with
hyporitical whining and useless scheming from behind.
So I ask you now, Malaclypse Thorn,
War or peace?

Silverstorm Trismegistus
Archon of Ashtan

Penned by my hand on the 19th of Ero, in the year 300 AF.