Honored Legate,
It is with great delight that I read your letter, well-argued in all its respects.
Firstly, we are in agreement that arranging for a specific Magistrate to oversee a specific case is far from ideal. By every right and custom, the first Magistrate to arrive is the one who shall oversee a given case. I will have words with my soldiers, and with Lieutenant Colmes, on this, and ensure that it does not occur again.
Secondly, I would like to highlight a number of points of interest in this matter.
1. We are in agreement that the Janissaries of the Sultan should not serve any master but he, and his duly chosen representatives.
2. FURTHER, it is so far from the desire of the Janissaries to serve under the command of this foreign mercenary that it strikes any fair and well-reasoned man as laughable the implication that this Lieutenant of mine has somehow engineered this state of affairs that vastly denigrates and diminishes his own authority.
3. If there was an error here, it surely must rest equally upon all present, for you were empowered to speak, and indeed to give voice to objection if it was yours to give. I cannot, in my reason, understand the reason that Marcellus agreed to this request from Kha'esh, yet it is here and now the situation we must deal with.
4. This entire affair seems to me a great conflagration - a crisis of powers - that must now be navigated carefully. Treason charges shall only heap yet more fuel upon the fire.
Thirdly, you may be gladdened to know that there exists presently no intention among we Janissaries, in spite of your point the seventh, to bring charges against you. Given the drastic nature of the action, I wish to assure you once, twice, and thrice over that we would only do so for the most severe and certain of crimes - the attempted coup of the disgraced Legate Ricario Cassella, for example. The Fourth Legion considers itself at the service of the Legates in our posting here in Ephia's Well, which is indeed your satrapy, to rule in the name of His Sublime Majesty.
You need not fear us as looming sentinels that shall turn upon you at a moment's notice for the most minute of errors. We are, in every way, subordinate to the government of the Palatial Pyramid, and it is only with the authorization of the Sultan that such charges against his own satraps would be brought. Let us consider this, and rededicate ourselves once more to the war that yet waits ahead of us.
Ever in service,
Sorazin Bey
It is with great delight that I read your letter, well-argued in all its respects.
Firstly, we are in agreement that arranging for a specific Magistrate to oversee a specific case is far from ideal. By every right and custom, the first Magistrate to arrive is the one who shall oversee a given case. I will have words with my soldiers, and with Lieutenant Colmes, on this, and ensure that it does not occur again.
Secondly, I would like to highlight a number of points of interest in this matter.
1. We are in agreement that the Janissaries of the Sultan should not serve any master but he, and his duly chosen representatives.
2. FURTHER, it is so far from the desire of the Janissaries to serve under the command of this foreign mercenary that it strikes any fair and well-reasoned man as laughable the implication that this Lieutenant of mine has somehow engineered this state of affairs that vastly denigrates and diminishes his own authority.
3. If there was an error here, it surely must rest equally upon all present, for you were empowered to speak, and indeed to give voice to objection if it was yours to give. I cannot, in my reason, understand the reason that Marcellus agreed to this request from Kha'esh, yet it is here and now the situation we must deal with.
4. This entire affair seems to me a great conflagration - a crisis of powers - that must now be navigated carefully. Treason charges shall only heap yet more fuel upon the fire.
Thirdly, you may be gladdened to know that there exists presently no intention among we Janissaries, in spite of your point the seventh, to bring charges against you. Given the drastic nature of the action, I wish to assure you once, twice, and thrice over that we would only do so for the most severe and certain of crimes - the attempted coup of the disgraced Legate Ricario Cassella, for example. The Fourth Legion considers itself at the service of the Legates in our posting here in Ephia's Well, which is indeed your satrapy, to rule in the name of His Sublime Majesty.
You need not fear us as looming sentinels that shall turn upon you at a moment's notice for the most minute of errors. We are, in every way, subordinate to the government of the Palatial Pyramid, and it is only with the authorization of the Sultan that such charges against his own satraps would be brought. Let us consider this, and rededicate ourselves once more to the war that yet waits ahead of us.
Ever in service,
Sorazin Bey