We are not speaking of a single individual.

We speak of the fact that the formal representative of the Merchant-King of Qor Qogol already declared the slain skeletons of their legions as their 'troops', demanding reparations for what were essentially stolen goods. We watched skeletons rise from graveyards within Sapience, not within Qor Qogol, to bolster these offending armies intended to push the mentioned demands of this Merchant-King.

We wish to be clear: this is not xenophobia, it is outright disdain.

Respect could be afforded an Empire that strove for such endeavors based upon the truth of their own strength, but to see the memories of those gone-beyond perverted into shambling fodder? Contemptable and unallowable, even if the presence of the undead and undying were not already each a wound upon Dia'ruis.

We were taught that when you take a life, you are taking all of the things that life ever was, is, or will be and imposing your own will onto its shape and purpose from then on. All it ever was before then was your prey, wandering a long and weaving journey into your hands. It is much the same for those who are raising our fallen for their armies: a theft of their life's meaning and purpose. All they ever had been in life, then, is but a pawn in waiting...if allowed.

Think back to the ancestral crypts you knew so well, Arbiter, and know why we find this contemptable.

Lord-Navigator Bhalwyn
Presiding Voice



Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 17th of Slyphian, in the year 2 AC.