Oh dear Shakti,

Have you been swimming in your own lies? Are you beginning to believe
yourself? Do you really think I would accuse you, the Overseer and her
ruling council of being idiots, tyrants, oppressors, morons, corrupt,
infantile, cretins, and imbeciles?

Hell yeah, of course I would!

You can't honestly believe that you can justify your oppression, can
you? You are smarter than that. You aren't that retarded. Your own lies
are beginning to seep through your pores. You honestly think you are
going to justify such injustice? You and I both know I was outcitizened
for childish reasons.

Perhaps your immaturity has overcome you. Have you seen anyone hold a
grudge through all the stuff we've already been through? If it hasn't
sunken in yet, I'll go ahead and repeat it for you. The Malddathi are
not the Infernals. The Infernals are those who left our cause and stayed
in Ashtan. That is their choice. Who cares? We, the Maldaathi, moved on.
The Infernals were not leaving Ashtan to regroup to destroy Ashtan. You
think much to highly of yourself, as your archon does. The Infernals
were leaving to build their own, new home. A place of peace, and
monopoly. A place that can be ruled by us, and dictated to our
standards. A place where we can worship Sartan without religious
oppression. No matter how much you argue that Ashtan didn't oppress the
Infernals it will do you no good. The only people that care already know
the truths. Everything Sartan did you provoked. You have a problem
admitting to that, but it's common knowledge. However, you still haven't
justified the prejudice you hold for Maldaathi as a group. A group newly
reformed and regrouped. A brand new guild. As with every new guild
people flock to it. So what if the coincidence happened that all the
ex-infernals flocked to it and took it under control. Ashtan destroyed
our previous guild. So, it's rightfully ours to start a new beginning
with. Don't you think it's kind of hard to do that with five year olds
running the Ashtan council screaming about future hostilities? Get a
grip, and run your city of the free.

The problem you have is with singled out individuals. The ones who
harmed Ashtan. You can spew crap all day long, but you still can't
justify the oppression of freedom your council has voted on. You kick
out all Maldaathi, branding them traitors for being innocent, and claim
freedom. If you wish to abuse our trust, then rename your city to the
City of Chaos, oppress everyone you want and kick out all the people you
hate (i.e. Me). But until you do so, you are all hypocrites who have
nothing in mind except anger, hatred, and antipathy. Until you infants
learn how to control your imagination, step down and let real men do the
job you can't handle. It's always sad to watch a city kick out and enemy
people for being in an organization and still, arrogantly and
ignorantly, call themselves freedom-fighters. It's always painful to
watch friends turn into green, pathetic hypocrites that they once
disputed. Grow up, and take your mistakes like professionals for once.
You messed up, big time.

You believe that everything and everyone is revolving around you, and
Ashtan. You think you know what went on inside the Infernals during that
period of time. It's sickening to listen to you claim to know us, and
our plans. It was a game to us. We wanted our way, and we were going to
pitch our fits until we got it. You were oppressing our religious
freedoms, and we were planning a move. We were going to try one last
time to settle the scores with Ashtan, but the tyranny proved to be to
powerful. So the guild left, and that's when it was destroyed. It wasn't
a massive plot to destroy Ashtan. You enemied impalers, not because it
was against any law. It's because you, once again, were thinking
everything revolves around Ashtan. You thought Sartan was going to come
back and trash Ashtan like He has so many times in the past. Sartan
couldn't care less about Ashtan. But it is always a good laugh and a lot
of fun to watch deamons roam mortal streets and people shrieking in
terror. You were too busy being arrogant to realize we didn't care about
Ashtan, and didn't want anything to do with Ashtan.

Regardless of the many attempts to tell you that the Maldaathi have a
completely new view on life, you have ignored us. We wanted a place to
worship our Lord without being oppressed. We got it. We have a home and
religious freedom. We don't care about Ashtan. We don't need Ashtan
anymore. Stop believing your own paranoia, and grow up.

So try being the leader of the City of the Free, and let people be free.
Don't make the same mistake as you did with the Infernals. Don't lose
another once loyal guild to your Church like standards. It's a word to
the wise. A city is made up primarily from it's organzations, and so
far, you are good at getting rid of them. Don't mark your own demise,
blinding yourself by your own ego. Kick out citizens who harmed Ashtan
during the war, not the ones that might or could have if they were here.
Enemy the ones who did wrong. But don't try flexing your muscles in my
direction, as it makes you look foolish for even believing that your
doing this for the good of the city-state. Your argument is weak, as
it's been backed up with weak, feeble, and pathetic attempts to show
people who's in charge and who's the boss of Ashtan. We don't care.
Mhaldor is our home. I think you're jealous. Leave the innocent
Maldaathi alone until they actually break one of your laws you haven't
just thought of.

In your best wishes, Shakti, Overseer of Ashtan, the City of Chaos.

- A. Ikari

Penned by my hand on the 18th of Phaestian, in the year 303 AF.