Greetings Aetolian's,

Firstly, I will not claim I'm a great fighter in the war. Not a chance.
I chickened out when I first got interested, because honestly, I didn't
see too much reason to fight when all the guards were already gone. But
I would like to beg something of you, as a fellow Aetolian, not a
Syssin. Remember that, despite it being peacetime or wartime, novice's
are indeed novices. Several of my novices reported to me that they
suffered deaths just for being in Spinesreach, and one was in the
militia. While I can understand the militia kill to a degree, most
people show more sympathy than that. I don't claim to have never killed
a novice, not a chance. I've killed plenty. I'm an advocate of novice
killing. For a reason. This novice, was just pinchering. He was doing no
more than that. He wasn't even near the front. Don't argue with me and
claim it was fair, opinions are opinions and this is my opinion, and
request. Please, spare the innocents until they are no longer innocent.

Penned by my hand on the 20th of Ios, in the year 123 MA.