Dealar
It is so terribly sad that the newest addition to the bouquet of Guilds
that focus us all in Aetolia has to be led by someone like you. It has
been a long time since I have seen such weakness on the part of a
"leader" and such failure to serve a Guild as a leader as you display.
All Guilds have their problems with leadership, but your
short-sightedness and suicidal naivet leaves me staggered.
Your "logic" seems to suggest that you did the right thing (buying a
stolen Clan) because you were wronged before. In other words, you bought
the clan as an act of vengeance. Because the Paladins don't take you
seriously and don't want anything to do with you, you decide to buy a
stolen clan. Now that we have established that the dealings with this
Clan were not "fair and square", even by Cabalist notions of honour,
let's move on to the real issues.
Why is it that we don't take you seriously? Well, frankly, I am
surprised that anyone takes you seriously, including your own Guild.
Your track record as a GM is frightful. You have allowed your Guild to
become a refuge for known thieves. Mykel, who stole money from the Magi
started it all. And now the thief Aasoral, who almost got whiplash from
signing up with the Cabalists so quickly and gleefully joins your ranks.
It seems you are quite happy to make your guild the repository for all
of Aetolia's detritus. How very proud your real members must be of these
criminal refugees. But it gets worse. It's common knowledge that you are
responsible for sharing the secrets of Numerology with the rest of
Aetolia, an act for which you would be outguilded in any other Guild.
But no, they reward such treachery at the Cabalists and made you GM.
Kaga should be right at home there. Finally, and perhaps as the saddest
indictment of your "leadership", you are prepared to go to war with a
clearly stronger and more established Guild over the thief Aasoral.
One thing I am tired of is Kaga and the thief Aasoral telling everyone
that we Paladins are blinded by Light and so on and so forth. I'm a
Fireboy and I'm proud of it. But neither of these two "experts" has ever
asked me about Light or what it means to me or anyone else. I think they
confuse the true meaning of Light with bright, shiny things. Perhaps
they over-polished their armour and so left the Paladins thinking they
were blinded by light, because neither of them knows anything at all
about the true nature of Light.
outb sileris
apply sileris for having your eyes opened, the thief Aasoral left the
Paladins because he was sulking over Kaga's dismissal for treachery.
There is no need to sex-up his flight to the Cabalists with
pseudo-intellectual battles between Light and Good. He was annoyed and
so he left. And he will never return. And what does he know about
defending Good, anyway? Defending a few Shastaan fisherman with a
hobbled attempt to resurrect the inglorious Swordsaints? Not getting his
own way and running off to the Cabalists? Yes indeed, the thief Aasoral
certainly knew a lot about Light and Good. And you take your lessons on
it from him? Another example of your fine leadership skills. Then you
use the word corrupt after your sophistry in justifying buying a stolen
clan. I ask you, Daelar, is all your rambling in the Guild you lead as
illogical and transparently self-serving as this, or do you just reserve
your hypocrisy for the rest of Aetolia to delight in?
In terms of Paladins joining your Guild, note only those who can no
longer hide their wicked ways left to join you and one, the thief
Aasoral, is a selfish crook. You are not harbouring Paladins, don't
flatter yourself. You are harbouring thieves and turncoats. As for the
"sorry state" of our Guild. Look who is winning this war you seem to
want to escalate. The thief Aasoral has dropped 92 places in the
rankings. I'd call that getting hammered, and when you decide to stop
hiding behind your Grace (another example of fine leadership) we will do
the same to you until the clan is returned. We have more money (we don't
buy stolen clans with our Guild funds), more members, more loyalty, more
purpose and more resolution than you. Most of all, we have patience. It
is foolishness for the thief Aasoral to think he can strike so hard at a
whole Guild, any Guild, and you are sponsoring him in this foolishness.
We have seen these wars before, where individuals declare war on us.
And, as you can see, we are still here. We will see off this challenge
with as much determination as we have seen off the others. Do you really
want to drag your whole Guild into this? As they try to learn and
understand their new skills, do you really want to make them part of a
contest that you will ultimately lose? If any of your Secretaries have
any gumption at all, they will be thinking about contesting your
position because it seems your Guild needs a real leader, not a
sycophantic lout with a propensity for making self-destructive
decisions.
So by all means, escalate the thief Aasoral's insignificant vendetta
into a war. It has created unity in us, cemented our leadership and,
best of all, made all of us learn how to deal with Cabalist attacks, a
knowledge we share freely with any who ask. We aren't perfect, but when
the occasion arrives, we will rise to it. My, my, talk about sowing the
seeds of your own destruction. Or is it being hoisted by your own
petard?

I wish all our enemies were led by such wise and cunning fellows.


Penned by my hand on the 19th of Haernos, in the year 110 MA.