Legate Faith,
I can make an exception, I was participating in the gathering information for this before my candidacy begun, so it would not be a breach to begin again. There does not seem to be a record for this conversation. It was possible that this meeting was behind a locked door, where no scribe could reach it, if it happened at all. I will confer with Legate Vellyn and get the details from her.
There is, the transcript of events, however, including the willful disobedience of a lawful order from a Legate.
while I was doing my duties within the Palatial Pyramid. The occurrence was worth abandoning my current situation to begin transcribing.
For any irregularities or questions, please send a letter at this same address for me.
Amnai al-Ibrahim.
Transcription
Entry one, unauthorized broadcast, unknown speaker, deep and sonorous voice, sad:
"Upon edge of eyes, darkness. There of pained face, all of wicked smiles."
"Theirs of claws, and gnashing. Come there from shadow, from beneath. Beyond, behind, there above."
"Come they, hunting. There released. There a passage, given purchase. Given purpose, by the turning of the Long-Dead Keys."
"We flee, and upon our backs, they fall upon. They come for us, and all we tend."
"You have doomed us, we last few. Our blood stains the gardens, there that lie beneath."
"It it is not of thee, you defiant young. The wounds you carve, deep and endless. From without flows water, flows blood, flows sorrow."
Half an hour into the 24 hour candle that burns in our office, Zol Nur makes a message on the bellows.
Entry two, Zol Nur: "Things buried never stay this way. The stone alone sees all our sins. It is the nature of all beings to seek. But it is also nature of beings to help. Atone. Grow. Come you up! Come you here, to safety. We make of you a haven. We give to you, refuge. Come we now, to help and aid. Endure a little longer.".
He summons Shum with expediency. Shum arrives before the hour candle burns into the next hour nail. Shum summons Eva.
The 24 hour candle reaches another hour nail.
Entry three, unauthorized bellows, aforementioned unknown speaker:
"Library, breached. Records, sealed."
Immediately after, Legate Vellyn makes a message.
Entry four, Legate Vellyn Lhyrian:
"Apothars. Hanson. The Pyramid, if you would be so kind.
Your permits to descend are, by my authority as Legate, revoked. Kindly make your way back to the surface and provide an explanation."
The voice interrupts Legate Vellyn.
Entry five, unauthorized bellows, aforementioned unknown speaker:
"Great Gate Abaru, overrun. Passage, barred. Threshold, compromised."
The city shook violently. Legate Vellyn made a message immediately after.
Entry six, Legate Vellyn Lhyrian:
"Hello. The Tormented assail our Well. All active Janissaries are requested to aid in the defense of our home. Those of you who cannot fight are urged to barricade yourselves someplace safe. The Krak, the Barracks, the Pyramid, or your homes if naught else is available."
A short time after, Lieutenant Vardgul Skarn leads a strike team to one of the bellows to make a message.
Entry seven, Lieutenant Vardgul Skarn
"Hans! Where the hell are you?! You were given a lawful order, son. Get yourself back up here now!"
Entry eight, immediately after, Lieutenant Vardgul Skarn.
"Praying you aren't taking up so long because you're dead."
Entry nine, High Zenithar Q'tolip.
"The Astronomers of Q'tolip heed the will of the Legates. You are not changing anything, Zol Nur."
From the balcony, ten minutes later, I see Balladeer Aurelio d'Lyon mustering a force and pushing into the Pilgrim's Plaza, where the fighting is at its greatest intensity. He engages by saddleback. The battle is bloody but it is won.
Entry ten, Simon Tallen, scribe, frightened:
"This is Scribe Simon. Legate Vellyn has decreed that the events that took place throught the city will be addressed tomorrow when the Legates are both present. In the meantime, please stay indoors as much as possible until we are certain there will be no further incursion. Live and drink."
Entry eleven, unknown Kulamet:
"A wound festers below, oozing black ichor to poison her roots. Jamileh, Nessia. Both of you are summoned before her Shrine, both are called to explain your continued efforts to poison her Garden with these 'Tormented'. To encourage tempt fate and bring harm to her Sacred Waters. You are called to explain your motives and stand trial before her Shrine, before the Daughters of Fierce Kula."