The troubled trumpeter's wife must come to his rescue. How quickly he ran out of wind it seems.

Firstly, we must address the irony of talk of shackles from one who leads an Empire that is set on dominion, slavery and brutality.

You accuse me of deceit? I must declare, you have me at a loss. From first point of posting to now, I have expounded on the First Flame and repeatedly acknowledged both Her role in our most recent salvation and Her links to Enorian throughout the course of our history.

None of those who retained free will enough to witness Her arrival needed to blindfold themselves. We watched with unabashed awe as She graced the skies above Sapience and burned the blasphemous miasma of Irgech away beneath Her righteous Light. Only those bound to the Shadow were punished. The only one's constantly seeking to blind themselves to Her Light and the Truth are those who constantly seek to demean Her timely arrival. Perhaps you would have been better content in thralldom to the Shadowmother, with no free will to speak of, nor home, nor family?

You accuse Sapience of becoming another battlefield to Her? Where is She then? Why do we not seek to summon Her back, though we have the means still at our disposal?

Our goal is not to provide a new home for the First Flame. That has never been a stated objective and nor is it desired by ourselves. It is not desired by those from Rewh'va. It is not desired by those from Rahiela.

We strive towards an Age of Dawn of our own making. We will forge it in the fires of purity. We will temper it with our righteous purpose. We will quench it in the blood of the infidel and heretic who seek to prevent it.

Saa'ayanati aal-Dej'ani qan osa-maqadati hij lihi!

You will know the Light or be judged by it.

Sir Benedicto Silverain
Grand Crusader of the Dauntless Akkari Host

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Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 21st of Khepary, in the year 505 MA.