Eve Keter, Manos Cosmatos, Zol Nur, Jamileh Attar

[Qari]

Hello,

As discussed with the Nadiri, preparations for your defence are enclosed with a mock of how I would prosecute your case. If I am unable to be present to act as advocate, ensure my stand-in is well prepared.

Prosecution strategy:

1. Highlight & Establish guilt. With the massacre and chain of events clearly established, this will not be difficult.

2. Highlight bellows made by Legates and Senior Accord officers requesting your return as "Treason" at most, or "Recklessly poor judgement" at the least. Attack the character and judgement of the accused to bias crowd and magistrate.

3. Weaponize witnesses. Find: Sole survivors of families, individuals grievously injured. Paint the misery of the harmed for all to see. Bias crowd and judge further via sympathy.

4. Establish intent.  Question the purpose of why you were there, why you disregarded orders to return.  Cite past tormented attacks, including but not limited to the most recent as justification for delving being forbidden.


5. Closing statement : Re-state all of the above. Weaponize any poor statements made by the defense.

If the court follows proper procedure, you will not be allowed witnesses. You will have only the statement from the defense and your own closing statements to defend you.

Eva posited that there was another delve happening simultaneous to yours. If this cannot be proven, it should not be mentioned. It will be seen as a weak deflection and any competent prosecutor will be gleeful to rip it to shreds. She was directed to find proof.  This is your only hope of a true "Innocent" verdict but extremely unlikely to succeed.

Eva and Manos were directed to gather certain documentation pertaining to the reasons and causes for your delve.

This trial will likely result in more being revealed than anyone wishes.  State the danger we are in if we do nothing. State the intended benefit of further delving. Do not instruct the public en massse how to delve or bypass anything below that would impede them.

Focus on documentation and established fact. Bellows, orders, and Letters between yourselves and the legates following previous delves. Establish mutual culpability and responsibility. This is important, for reasons discussed with Eva and Manos.


Establishing innocence will likely be a waste of time. Attention should be put on the fact that harm is ongoing, harm has been ongoing for some time, and harm will get worse. Highlight the danger and the need for it to be stopped. Do not dismiss the lives lost, express regret. Make some offer of reconciliation, collectively. Bring gifts and apologetic gestures for the witnesses and affected individuals in the crowd. Wear respectable clothes for mourning.


Accept punishment and responsibility and seek lenience rather than execution or exile. (If legates wish to pursue the latter, countermeasures discussed with Eva)


The outcome of this trial is already assured. You will be found guilty. The goal of this exercise is to ensure you all survive.

If you have questions, I would urge you to write to me or seek me out.

Qari Alriyh,
Scholar of Baz'eel,
Legate of the First Seat, Gold League