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I'm closing the book on the PC after several months with a month break in between as I've lost the drive to continue him and honestly looking forward to a new PC so I can refresh myself and begin new stories.

I made the PC with the idea that he would be a Thomas Locke sort of figure in the League of White, very attached to the idea of 'reason' but let the road take him where it took him.

He served Alexandria Sayburgh as her Prelate and served a short tenure as Legate and things really kicked off during that time and didn't really pick up again. He left the League of White and joined the League of Gold after becoming disillusioned with his old League and tried to carve out a career as a more devoted Twindari lawyer, albeit seeing little trials.

He gave it up to join the Fourth Legion, and on an outing with the boys found himself at the end of a Scorpioid's glaive. The end. There's a lot more to say here but those who know, know and those who don't, I don't blame you. I really lost wind after his time as Prelate and Legate and the death of Alexandria and I just didn't have the motivation or the schedule to pick up the slack or support the ambitions I had for him.

Thank you to all the PCs I interacted with on him and a shout to the DMs that put up with his short lived antics before he tried to be a more sane and upright fellow.

See y'all on the next.

P.S I was actually nearly blackout drunk when he confessed to Inanna's murder, coinciding with Edmund's grief and alcoholism. Method roleplaying wins the day.

Ruital,

As per our discussion, here is a brief overview of the Palatial Advocacy and its history;

It was created during the last days of my tenure as Legate as part of a larger agreement. A clause that acted as a social contract of some kind to ensure my position was secure after my time as Legate was over, as my successor was hellbent upon unraveling all I had made an effort to accomplish alongside Vellyn.

Some of those agreements she succeeded in unraveling, but legal contract signed by two Legates is difficult to make disappear on one's whim. Thus, before even beginning my career as Palatial Advocate, its creation was perhaps 'for the public good' but in reality showcased that the most powerful lawyer in Ephia's Well is indeed a Legate of the Assembly!

It was Lhyrian's Vizier, Dunstan Feldg, that concepted the idea. He acted as my financial advisor and funded many of my public works, including the Honorable Guild of Advocate's property at the time next to the Union of Glaziers. Though after a Makhyoon of the Wroth was placed under house arrest there, the property value began to diminish and my funds escaped me, as he had placed a most profound curse upon it. To this day, it remains empty and of little desire to investors.

The intent was simple. Coupled with Legate Lhyrian's tendency of paying and advertising for public advocates (offering boons of 200 dinari for anyone off the street to act as defendant in ill organized trials), my retainer would be paid for by hourly wage and also be offered a bonus of said 200 dinari should I attend as defendant. But the Palatial Advocate's role was to manage, organize and recruit for the Guild, to usher in a new era of lawmakers, reformers and public advocates in close correspondence with the Twindari clergy. It did not pan out in such a way, as those who care much for the law it seems are few and far.

Lastly, the Palatial Advocate would advise and offer counsel upon proposed laws from the Legates, and also seek such proposals from the Accord and the Voiced Assembly, to perhaps present it during Assembly and save us all precious time, in an attempt to continue any efforts to make our noble Assembly a more organized and less chaotic affair.

I also leave you with two names whom have expressed interest recently in serving the Honorable Guild of Advocates (this name is not cemented in the contract and so if selected by the Legates I leave you to its creativity);

Kana Morai who currently works for the Ashen Conclave as auxiliary merchant and Innas yl-Saod, of whom I know little of.

With all due regard your friend,

Janissary Edmund Lothere

C/O Fourth Legion Barracks

Honored Legates Lhyrian and Linwood, First and Second Seat of the Ephian Assembly,

As I now serve the Fourth Legion of the Sultan's Janissary, it is only formal that I relinquish my position as Palatial Advocate and in my place recommend a notable son of Baz'eel that I have grown fond of recently, and has earned my nod.

Ruital ibn-Kharim would be a fine choice to take my stead and continue the Honorable Guild of Advocates, though I believe he has some notion of wish to rectify its purpose and redefine its future, and I have no doubt for the better, as he is bred of Baz'eeli stock and grew up in the very same streets of the Martyrs' Adliye itself.

Thank you for honoring our agreement, Vellyn, however I shall like to say that it perhaps did not suit me well beyond a steady income in the aftermath of political failure, and the reform of the law I envision will not come into act until the Fourth Legion fixes its position and sets a straighter path through these narrow corridors we call our Penal Code.

It needs a man who does not seek to build a career with this city's expense, but a man who seeks to build a city at his expense, and I have long considered the invitation from Sergeant Gilbracht. Accepting the offer, I now live to truly serve Ephia's Well, rather than serve myself or my agenda for the future.

In apt display, I act the Martyr, not of my life, but of my days as a politician. A statesman though I shall always be, and it is to the Ephian state I dedicate my service to. Now and forever.

Please call for Ruital once you are able, and discuss the details; or arrange your own appointee in mind, and vice versa. Here is to a new beginning.

P.S Congratulations on your appointment, Garen. Katya would be so proud of how far you have come. You have my condolences. We will find the ones responsible and see justice served. That I vow to you.

Regards,

Janissary Edmund Lothere

C/O Fourth Legion Barracks

Honored Bey & Deferent of His Sublimity's Commander, Fourth Legion, Sultan's Janissary;

Noble Lieutenants, willful Sergeants, brave Legionnaires. Soldiers all.

I write this petition in the abnormality of a curious career change entrusted unto the mind and invitation of Sergeant Hanson Gilbracht, and in memoria of the late Lieutenant Rennik Colmes of whom I held a deep and professional respect for.

As the Lieutenant once likened me to the late Legate Ahmet Yildirim, who once served the Second Legion, I have long considered where it is my path lays and I have decided upon the counsel of those I trust that it lays within the Fourth Legion.

I have served as Legate of Ephia's Second Seat in the Ephian Assembly, I have served Her as Prelate, as Palatial Advocate and as Vizier of the People, and in my short tenure I worked closely with Sergeant Gilbracht to offer all and any aid I could, treating with each of the Accord with the temperament taught to me by my mentor, Alexandria Sayburgh.

That is to say, of all the things one should not do. While my duties fell upon me in the slightest notion of virtue, I sought to correct my past mistakes and live a life worthy of the Mother; of a life in honor of Izdu and a life in memory of his children, the Twins.

I have done these things, and now, I would serve as soldier of the Fourth Legion, and make right the scales of travesty beheld in the Halls of Jurisprudence. What I shall bring with me is the repertoire of knowledge bestowed upon me by my study of Twindari law and tenet, and to rap, I am trained with dual-sword, and may wield them with prudence in service to the Bey.

Through diplomacy, through war, through trial, through order, I will bring into your fold an air of professionalism, of determination and of a justice unheard of by many who mock Galim and His court. And when Ephia's Well finds itself at last, tamed and obedient, so too shall the Fourth Legion's name be spread across the Great Ash and become revered. As my oath to the Twindari states, alongside these things I will honor those tenets, and see our dead delivered to the Preparators to be given their last rites. Not a name in our ranks shall go unremembered, and not one death will be in vain so long as I live to serve.

I hope you will consider this proposal. Live and Drink.

With regards,

Palatial Advocate Edmund Lothere

Honored Legates,

Is it possible to have a list of those whom shall be tried for the descent into Al-Nasr? I've been approached by Apothar Cosmatos regarding Advocation though I'm uncertain that is what you meant by aiding this case.

The streets are bustling of late with hearsay and yet I have no little birds to keep me appraised. I would welcome a detailed report of the situation so I might choose best how to approach the matter.

The soldier has eluded my meeting, however I cannot stop but feel as if this entire case weighs upon a great conflict of interest for all parties involved. A trial leaves room for error, and we can presume the presence of Q'tolip and his lot in the party as a means of their need to be so in earlier policies.

Recent changes to that policy have perhaps forced their hand, and we ought to ask ourselves if this would have happened if the Tower of Q'tolip were still in charge of moderating access in and out of the Depths.

Sergeant Hanson Gilbracht is the one responsible for leading this expedition, and whether or not the pretenses were legal for their entry, the fallout has seen the massacre of many, many Ephians. An entire generation of Ephians, in fact. So many children, robbed of their due futures. Futures we owed them. Futures our city and its champions fought for in the Iakmean War. We were at peace; we are at peace, for now.

It was to be a time of renewal, blessed by B'aara, and yet in our city there is the gall to delve into a place that is unnecessary at best, and at worse, pointless curiosity. In the Exit Poll, a question was asked; should Al-Nasr be buried?

I answered yes, and I believe going forward we should hold an Assembly to discuss this matter and hear the thoughts of the city, but in sooth, it *should* be buried. Too many have grown an adverse taste for that hell, and it has gone on long enough in relative secrecy from the majority of the city but this recent slaughter has of course not gone unnoticed. They know now something sleeps there, and it has been awake for some time.

Orcs bleed. The Tormented do not, they only return with vicious ire deserved of their horrific nature.

Gods preserve us.

Palatial Advocate Edmund Lothere

Good day to you, honored son of Baz'eel.

I welcome you to Ephia's Well and offer my apologies for we met in poor circumstances as I fumbled (failingly) to bring light upon the death of a pious citizen of our home.

Your treatise regarding the woes of the White League have caught my eye. As a former member, Prelate and interim Legate of that unfortunate breeding ground for the Rose's concentration of influence, I cannot say much disagreement was found in your words.

There is a deeper issue at hand here and I would welcome your thoughts. Coin shall of course be offered for your time if nothing else.

Though here be it the inquiry to ponder in your head ere we meet soon enough to discuss it; are the issues you describe not reflected in the other Leagues? After all, the League of Purple is little more than a cult of personalities one after the other, seen most notoriously throughb Legate Lujayn al-Farisyya's rise to power upon the platform of "The League of Purple can do all that the Lily promises and more."

Her philanthropist approach indeed honored Princess Hasheema in more ways than any Lily effort I have witnessed and yet behind her governance was hidden a poisonous ego that bled through her pristine toga and endearing smile. She was more populist than most in the League of White let alone Legates, and such a thing is even writ on the tenet.

The League of Gold saw a stroke of long gilded fortune, as Argent Argyris steered the decaying faction into not only the wealthiest but also the most powerful party in the city, while before him its credibility was slowly fading. Even now, two victories by Legate Lhyrian on the platform of correcting the tyranny if the former Golden Regime of Gloamingdaith and Argyris, and winning the hearts of the adventuring class as John Syter did long before her has earned her a firm foundation of support.

The true downfall of every Lily effort is indeed the entrenched influence held over it by the Cinquefoil Rose, and their continued insistence to run platforms based on emotion and fiery rhetoric, instead of reason and logic, as you say.

I lool forward to our conversation.

My regards,

Palatial Advocate Edmund Lothere

[To the League of Gold,]

To the League of Gold,

Having found myself departing the League of White, I intend to branch out and embrace my new found ideals in the League that once saw the rise of enterprising Ephians such as John Syter.

Our past is muddied by our former Legates, but I think it foolish to escape their legacy, for an objective mind must confess this League found great success under their suffocating thumb.

The rule must be thus, that there is always room for improvement. As in the rumors of fabled conversation, one Legate said to another, 'I wish you not to be me, but to be better than I ever was,'

And per our tenets, our shared vision, our goals, I say to that; Idealism is not the venue of the Lily but the pilot of a Golden Renaissance. Wealth has many meanings. We seek it, for all, but most importantly we define it. *We* define what is wealth. Wealth of the mind, wealth of the soul, wealth of the citizen's clause! Wealth of our pockets, wealth of our city.

And in this Commonwealth bequeathed to the greatest minds of Ephia's Well, we do not only dream it, we invoke it. With every discussion, with every action, with every victory, small or large, we invoke it in our very fiber of being. For what is the life's blood of our dear city, but the Assembly of Ephia's Well and its Voiced, whom breathe such vim and vigor into our every day.

We are the future. I know this now, and I will stand by you forever more, as I am not confused any longer, I am no longer adrift. My place is found, and it is here, in our halls. In the absence of a proper Secretary, I shall take up this mantle and guide us forward, through wit, through diplomacy and through my tenacity.

Here is to that future.

Live and Drink!

Yours truly
Palatial Advocate Edmund Lothere

[THE FIRST REFORM - VOICES AND CITIZENSHIP]

In regards to His Sublimity's Esteemed Majordomo, the honorable Siursum avak Res,

Live and Drink. I am writing this letter to you as a formal inquiry towards the future of Ephia's Well, and as the Sultan's representative in our fair government, I believe your stance on this matter imperative, for I was told by the Legate I was serving at the time (Alexandria Sayburgh, may the Martyrs preserve her soul) that it was the want of Mother Baz'eel to disallow such course of action in policy and reform.

Therefore, I will bring to light this reform in question, albeit an aged one;

Disclosed and attached is an old document.

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THE FIRST REFORM - VOICES AND CITIZENSHIP
Penned by Edmund Lothere
Iyar 1, IY 7789



For too long has this city felt the weight of a 15,000 dinar Voice. With the ascension of Alexandria Sayburgh to the seat, the People have once again been given the hope they crave, and the avenues of growth from which the olive branch of peace is extended, and the Nascent Lily given rise again.

This Reform is regarding three matters;

• The Price of a Voice
• The Definition of a Voice
• The Declaration of Ephian Citizenship, abolishment of the term 'Voiceless' in law

On the first, the price of a Voice shall be lowered to 5,000 dinar from 15,000 dinar.

On the second, the definition of a Voice is more formally a Speaker in Assembly, with the right to vote and own property in Ephia's Well. A Voice is no longer attached to any definition of citizenship.

On the third, terms and criterias shall be written for the definition and declaration of true citizenship in Ephia's Well, defined not by purchase but through providence and merit, and fundamental rights.

It may be called the Citizen's Act, followed by a brief set of rights owed to all citizens of Ephia's Well.
On the terms and criterias of citizenship, it has been discussed in a number of proposals from;

• Length of residency in Ephia's Well (1-2 months)
• Purchase of a license
• Membership of an Accord constituent or city faction (i.e the Scribes, the Glaziers, the Sandstone College)
• An application (the most straining of options on our bureaucracy)

Therefore, with these proposals, I suggest a meeting of the League of White be held soon to formalize these proposals and present them to Legate Achaeus Komemnos so that we may see if he shall budge, or if we will have to wait for victory in the next election and begin to strategize our approach.

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When this proposal was sent to Legate Sayburgh, she informed me it would never come to pass or be allowed. Whether this was due to Legate Achaeus' stance or not is unknown to me but while serving as interim Legate after her passing in the Iakmean War, I found no such report. In fact, the copy that was placed into her hands had been vanished entirely. There was no trail or sign of it.

In earnest, Master Siursum, I wish to know if such things would ever be entertained by His Sublimity. It is my belief that the Sultan wishes Ephia's Well to be content, but in my experience, such a thing does not stem from stasis, and sooner or later the people shall cry out for change. Not violence, not blood, nor treachery, but change.

We are all loyal to the Sultan, and we are thankful for what he has given us. We, who without Ephia's Well, would be homeless vagrants lost adrift in a world we perhaps no longer belong in, and yet fight each and every day in His Sublimity's name to earn our place in the Great Disc.

The details are not precisely how I would pen them, but in soothe, my hope is for every Ephian to have the right to call themselves an Ephian citizen, with rights set in Baz'eeli law (so that in the future, these rights cannot be trampled on at the whim of a Monochrome Pyramid, as seen during the days of Legates Balstan Gloamingdaith & Argent Argyris), and for our Voiced Assembly to be empowered with our democracy. As it stands, we are votes and little else. Play things for politicians, to be dismissed when it pleases them, while nearly every decision of import to the city is done at the behest of our two sitting Legates and not our Assembly at all. We may only make suggestion, plaint and discourse but it changes little if the Legates wish it so.

This is not the way it should be, and I dare say this Experiment would fair much better if the Legates could not hold absolute authority over the Assembly, and the Assembly could, if necessary (and at the behest of the League Officials & past serving Legates) hold some part in the foreign and domestic policy of our city. Voting in the Legates is not enough, for it is far too simple for Legates to promise the world during an election and do the complete opposite while in power. We need accountability, order and function. A General Assembly that sees us forward, not a vanity gathering.

I leave this thought in your hands, Majordomo, and thank you for your time.

His Sublimity's humble servant,

Palatial Advocate Edmund Lothere

Lujayn,

That you still espouse those days as anything but strong faith has always alarmed me. You claim to care for those friends of yours now gone and yet break bread and publicly put coin in the hands of the man who saw his back broken? El'vel Serian is in a cold grave now, and cannot brandy you a vote, so I suppose that is where your friendship ended, now that anew can be kindled with the old, and you can shake hands with a murderer. A true murderer, by the way, and not a woman who only played with the idea.

Alexandria was very human. She bore many flaws, she was young, she was bold and she was ambitious, yes, but she was good. No blood was spilled by her hand, and I have made peace with my suspicions then, and have called them as they were and are-- the paranoia of a man in love. For I loved her, and indeed, I was willing to shatter the very thing that has held me dear for many years since the Ringfall; law and order, and a strict moral code upheld by my found faith in the Martyrs, just so I might remain close with her.

You and her are very different. She came from nothing, and made something of herself in this city and no matter your claims, she saw to it that the Stockade received thousands of funds and the coin that was to ensure another vein of water is still in leeway, but no doubt it will not come to fruition under your reign for you would do all that you can to erase the history of Ephia's Well and its pioneers, and instead write upon it the fable of Ghalib's young daughter made Legate. Herein lays our own differences. You only see those from Baz'eel worthy of your respect, and while you might say I am some Peerage enamored fool looking to make myself King, I am here in sooth to make of this my home, and make of it a home worthy of those that come after. You already have a home. You could throw it all away and still sleep in linen sheets and on satin pillows that very night.

Most of us do not have that leisure nor privilege. Many of us rely upon the success and prosperity of Ephia's Well for in its absence, we have nothing but the reminder our lives were torn apart and our homes destroyed by Nothing. All the while, I was in the service of one who had unveiled to us the Great Lie. That more than destruction, our livelihoods, our history, was at the pretense of a Monster that preyed upon mortal life and used us for his machinations to bring ruin and death upon the City of Rings.

So I am sure you are quite proud of your family, Lujayn. I am sure of it.

The Sultanate is not nothing to me.

The Sultan is the Last Peer.

And he is our new King.

Unsigned

To my beloved friend, Lujayn al-Farisyya, Legate of the First Seat (in the Assembly of Ephia's Well)

I have heard so much since my return and before that. Indeed, I seem to recall us once being friends truly and not made light of in a half-jested letter that I now write to you.

That you are not fond of myself nor my actions, and for what reasons? Perhaps you have them, but they would be the reasons of a spoiled child, running temper tantrums through the Palatial Pyramid. So long as they are not seen by the public eye though, I suppose you can continue to belittle others from your now high chair, and fit the bill of your prior plaint as others sat in that chair.

Not so righteous anymore, are we, Lujayn? Perhaps now you see not all can be done with the flick of a finger and that your time as Legate will be remembered as yet another tenure of status quo and a holier-than-thou leader who found herself so afraid to take a chance that she took no chances at all, and thus, accomplished nothing at all.

I would not expect you to know the difference between personal provisions acquired for oneself and common provisions acquired for the state's well-being, for that is what the position of Palatial Advocate and the formation of an Honorable Guild of Advocates is for and intended to be. Do you know why that is?

Because you, dear Lujayn, know nothing about the sanctity of law and order and that is ironic coming from myself (I had to place that there for I know it would be your first quip). Yet knowledge does not change, actions or otherwise, for knowledge does not fade like friendships do, when one considers themselves better than the other, liberated of any 'stain' they so eschew upon once a fellow. If you did, why would you appoint a Magistrate obsessed with her own image and vainglory, who would spit on the Adliye's chosen Witness that observes each and every trial this city has made a mockery of, and consider it a dignified choice? Her stain falls on you now.

For the Palatial Advocates to come, for all the reforms to the Penal Code to follow, and for all the proper Jurisprudence to engage with the Living Brother as witness and the Martyred Brother as final judge, this city will become a more lawful place.

You cannot see past anything but your own childish remarks for you are a conceited and snobbish woman that bleeds aristocracy and an incessant need to please her father. Not only that but you are a liar and a grifter, and I do not think you truly care for this city at all. As I've said before, I think you are here to make a name for yourself no matter what that entails.

Lujayn came to this city an aspiring scholar and archaeologist, and spoke sweet words to me. 'Oh, I'm not interested in politics.'

A week later, a week after that, the excess of your campaign, your war chest by the beginning of it; no, you came to this city to become Legate, to rule over it. At least be honest with yourself for those sweet words only work so long until it is plain for all to see, and I do think we are seeing the beginning of your façade unraveling itself.

Rest assured. I wish you the best, and I do hope your time as Legate is draining your sanity every moment that passes until you have no patience for theatrics and gentle words, for at least then, you shall be honest for the first time in your Ephian career. Speak what you will of me, but you might say I am brutally clear; flaws, mistakes, passions and all. It is who I am, and I am not a feared of it. Admire me to my face when no one is looking, as you always do, and then speak ill behind my back as you always do. It has become amusing, the various faces of Lujayn al-Farisyya I've been graced with since meeting you. I look forward to more.

Regards,

Your friend

Legate Edmund Lothere

Protecting the Citadel - Isolation over Frontier

It has taken me some time to determine what ink should find this parchment, in this part and parcel of this treatise in State and Being, of that and what a State must Be.

In the League of White we have a tenet we abide by. In full, it goes like this; Avoid entanglement with the dark powers of the desert, who would bring us into their troubles, to look inward, not outward.

Nary a conversation goes in the theater of politics within Ephia's Well, it seems, that does not make mention of Arslan. I hear it from colleagues, I hear it from rivals and competitors and I hear it from newly arrived!

Yes, due to our decisions in the Iakmean War, we are faced with a reality that was decided for us, and not as a whole, not as an Assembly. The Union of Kardesler in the end was made a mockery, and Ephia's Well did betray the Emirate of Kha'esh to liberate the City of Arslan. Now we are forced, as a whole, to decide its future.

However it was to the design of those I shall not mention that Ephia's Well is the frontier in all things, that we never know peace everlasting, and I do not mean only war, but also our politics, that which are implemented in a way that enforces a long and grueling status quo, where opposing Legates shall never see eye to eye in truth.

So we are the frontier, the ever whittled Citadel, and so long as the water flows, all is fine. But all is not fine, and we have indebted ourselves to a lifetime of commitment that we cannot afford, and have therefore weakened our city, our people and our future, that we have worked so hard to proclaim. That we have bled to honor and make sacrosanct.

I am not so cruel as to suggest that we abandon Arslan in her time of need, as we must now take responsibility for the actions of our city, as a responsible government should. I am however suggesting that we have made a mistake, and Ephia's Well shall suffer for it.

They say Ephia's Well is now in the spot of light, that we are emerging on a grand scale of the Great Disc and that eyes are watching. That we are indeed becoming great.

But are we becoming great, or is it that our name has become one with infamy on the lips of foreigners? To those who would align themselves with us now, will they see us as heroes, as victors, as saviors, or shall they see us as betrayers? As untrustworthy? That is the question, the Ephian Question, perhaps the Arslan Question, that we must be asking ourselves.

So we must ensure Arslan's future is secure, but we must not decide it for them when the time comes that they might stand upon their own two feet, nor should we partition the city amongst the Accord like we are vultures, twisting the helping hand we have extended into one that was not extended without condition, as it appears. We are not conquerors, nor are we colonists. We are pioneers, not of another's future, but ours. We must focus on ourselves, and our future, if we are to grow and expand and care for the many refugees that continue to pour into our walls that seek to proclaim safety and sanctuary for all, and opportunities to follow.






Ephia's Well - Sanctuary for All

Ephia's Well must become a Sanctuary for All, and in that future, we need no borders but where our walls begin and end. There is much to do here, at home, before we gallivant into the Ash and begin dictating the futures of other city-states.

We must redefine citizenship, work towards fair representation for the Voiceless, ensure proper legal practice that is liberated of any malpractice and corruption and we must invest in our city and our people.

Thus I will conclude here, this treatise, that has aimed to clarify some of the terms I've used over my career for the betterment of the Citadel. I've made an effort to illuminate the Common Good over the Greater Good, and how our city is entangled in what is truly a Dinarcracy, not a Democracy, where coin wins the day and votes can be bought like a gourmet meal by the rich, thus ensuring ever an unfair system that does not properly represent all Ephians, nor give voice to the many Voiceless.

There is contrast between what I have called a politician and what I aspire to be, a statesman. So too, I stress the need for more care in the law and Jurisprudence, and for the Twins to be rightfully honored, for the law is sacred.

Finally, it is my hope that in the future, once our commitments are settled, we look to focus on Ephia's Well alone over the constant entanglements of foreign interference and cities that do not belong to us. My vision is that Ephia's Well be a Sanctuary for all peoples, a place of justice. A place of prosperity. A place of true representation, where the future is built upon the strength of its own citizens and the government ordained by the Palatial Assembly, and not merely the nigh autocratic rule of two opposing Legates. An end to the status quo, and the beginning of progress.[/font]

As the suggestion says, I think any concept tied to Appraise would benefit a lot from its effectiveness being dramatically increased. When the point gets to levels such as 15+, I think it should offer steep, steep discounts from notable stores such as Voiced buying waters, or buying potions from the Souk so that even non-brewers could make a business out of re-selling them.

The economy of EFU V6 is, as it stands, cool when it comes to discussing it such as the importance of water, but when it comes to water itself, people would rather (understandably) use it themselves than sell it. Only a few that could be counted on one hand have decided to act as peddlers of water, and beyond the roleplay, there is little incentive to be a water merchant.

Not all water merchants will be philanthropists doing it for a good reason. John Syter made his fortune from it, why is it so hard for other up and coming merchants to do the same? It should be the go to reason for aspiring Voiced with an eye for business to chase the value of Ephian water, but it doesn't feel this way IG.

That's the main reason for my suggestion, but beyond that I think it would be cool for Appraise to impact prices more in stalls. I very much dislike that the player economy from the time I've joined EFU to now (from late V4 to now) has always been dependent on finding and selling found loot in quests, whereas every other aspect has to be imagined. Imagination is fun, but I think we would see a lot more merchants if it wasn't the same dull routine every merchant and some strategy and fun could be involved in it.

[Magus Ramez Hour Sobhy of the League of White]

Dear Ramez, or more formally, the honorable scholar, colleague and Magus Ramez Hour Sobhy of the League of White;

It is I, Edmund, and though I would not consider us friends, I have valued your counsel both as a colleague and as an interim Legate of our League.

You have always been there through thick and thin, even to critique and speak your mind, never brushing from the subject.

Thank you for this. I write to you as I would feel remiss to leave without saying a word. I am departing the Citadel for a time, for how long, I know naught. Perhaps I will not return.

You should place your bid and begin campaigning. The Well needs wit such as yours, and the firmness to uphold the will of the People. Or convince Jamileh to do so. We owe her that much.

Farewell, my friend, no matter what. It matters little if you would consider it or not for the Lily upon your shoulder brands you so! I wish you the best of luck in your future ventures.

Yours truly,

Edmund Lothere

[Legate Lhyrian]

Dear Vellyn, or more formally, the honorable Legate Lhyrian;

I shall open this letter with a thank you. It is perhaps sad to say this, but we all lost many good friends of ours in Bet Nappahi, and you are the only friend I have left in the city. Alexandria's death has hurt me deeply and though I hide it well, the Citadel hasn't felt like a home to me since. More oft than naught I find myself ridiculed as a blackguard, and I know when to take a hint.

We were not always so cordial with one another, mostly on the part of my own addiction. But that is all I would push forth on this; thank you. For giving my Legature a chance for us to do some good. Alas, fifteen days is not long enough, but we had the beginning fruits of a fine working relationship to be.

These things take time. In truth, I find my stances and policies shifting, and it is no time then to focus upon politics but to gravitate and adapt to the times. I leave the Honorable Guild of Advocates in the hands of another. Perhaps Mr. Ibsum, who showcased his exceptional talent in the trial of Makhyoon Yaawar.

I have lost my way and found apathy instead, and I shall take some time to myself. Though the law is my passion, so too is diplomacy, a facet I have failed in before due to my own stupidity and foolishness. I do not know if I shall return.

So I wish you the best of luck in your tenure and future, and I am glad that in my parting days I was allowed to see a redeeming quality of the League of Gold so to the point that between departing the Well, I also considered departing the League of White to join your own, as I find my policies gravitating towards them more and more as I see the largest issue in the flaws of democracy, that each League does purport a democracy, only in different ways, and I am envious of the manners in which the League of John Syter has cemented themselves as the best of all worlds, when one sensible enough to lead them comes forth and shine them.

Farewell to thee, and my condolences for the hardship I have ensued with mine words and mine demeanor at times; Ephia in Victory.

Yours truly,

Edmund Lothere

IMPERIAL YEAR 7789, MARIBEH 6

Itinerary for the Meeting on Maribeh 7;

1. The Maribeh Election and our Candidate

2. A unified message

3. Recruitment for the Honorable Guild of Advocates

4. I, Lothere, in offering amends and branches to those against my policies & actions. My intent is clear to once again place my name upon the ballot for our League.

5. Policy, platform and our tenets (I shall be presenting my findings and reflections, as per my Treatise both written and unwritten, I invite others to do the same so we might refine and progress and move forward from the replica of talking points our party seems to regurgitate)

6. A blank slate, for suggestions and proposals from all attending

Live and drink, my friends. I will see you there.

Regards,

Lothere