Is no longer your business, thankfully. Squirm in the ignorance your Patron sought so persistently for mortals that He would become a fratricide. Or accept it - it doesn't really matter, now.

For the rest of your handwringing nonsense, if I felt you had any moral compunctions in the first place I would accuse you of hypocrisy. Instead, I will settle for letting you know that you've the subtlety of a rhinoceros yet notably lack the rest of its charm. I have asked time and again: no slaves were slain by Duirani hands. The only civilian I can think of slain during the war, was, in fact, Duirani - killed and gleefully dissected by one of your agents. This, coupled with the identity of the only people who seem to know anything of this apparent killing - your citizens, again, and one who left Duiran only to mysteriously find their way into your ranks shortly afterwards - raises a question or two in my mind as to your insistence that it happened. Perhaps it did - but I do not think Duiran responsible, if so.

The minotaurs, whose barbarity you toothlessly condemn now that it is no longer within your power, were given chance after chance to surrender, to settle elsewhere and free their slaves, and refused. I wonder - in the years they practiced slavery under your nose, did you ever speak to them about it? I did. Sadako cheerfully spoke of cruelty I will not repeat. The shaman laughed at their likelihood of death in the cold. Why did you wait to address it until your hand was forced? Perhaps it could be, like us, the slavery was not the main reason for your interest in the place.

Unlike the Council, however, you tolerated it. And now that it is over, you burn for ways to publically condemn us for things it seems you would never censure your own citizens for.

It's important to me that you note that the Shadow Mother's influence is subtle. Perhaps you might take some time to look within and consider it. It was not our Patron who colluded with Her to slaughter one of our deities. It was not our Patron who, using Shadow, murdered a living piece of Dendara and spat on the sacrifice His Warlord claimed to honor.

Whatever duty against Shadow the minotaurs of Sterion practiced, they had long sinced failed. It has simply taken Sapience a while to catch up.

Thanks,
E. Redwood

Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 9th of Lanosian, in the year 503 MA.