So I am going to start this reply by looking at your original post about
'all the support I had offered'. Yes I offered support in the past,
however I do believe it was your current Guild Master who rejected all
of that support simply because he and the Syssin in general are too
scared to commit to anything which has a possibility of going badly.
Beyond this however, for the longest time members of your guild have
just assumed it to be a privilege that they had earned, without ever
doing anything, to be allied to Bloodloch, and in fact Alain managed to
get himself enemied for life trying to argue when he acted in such a
way. So I am sorry if I do not accept a 'verbal' acknowledgement as a
definite indication that support is present. As you see there have only
been 10 Syssin allied to Bloodloch since I became Keeper, and 6 of those
Syssin were already allied well before I was even an Overlord, 2 of the
others were allied for treaty reasons (You were included here)� which I
guess leaves 2 that were allied because they were useful. Some support
huh? Two members of your guild in all the years I have lead, it is so
clear to me now!

I did feel so warm though, Mahakala, when you enemied me to the Syssin
guild, without giving a reason, without first replying and without
waiting to see your guild's views on the choice I gave them. So to me at
least, it does seem like you are shedding tears over what I am doing.
Further proof to back this up is shown in your obviously rushed original
reply which fails to make sense on the most basic levels, mostly because
you didn't take the time to calm down before posting.

Beyond this however is your rather emotional guild post about my enemy
status and how I am trying to enforce my own policies on your guild. The
ironic thing about these statements is simply the fact that I am not
trying to force anything on your guild. I do not care if you remove your
'no undead members' law. All I have done is offered protection to those
of your guild who would prefer to be rogue and not hunted. The reason
for this is pretty simple but it shall be addressed in more detail later
on.

As for enticing them to act in ways which would get them enemied to the
guild, it is a well known fact that the Syssin enemy and hunt any rogue
whom retains knowledge of the guild's skills after leaving. Please tell
me how I am enticing anything since, regardless of my offer, they would
be enemied for acting in such a way anyway.

Next point in relation to your guild post; 'Consider sending Bloodloch
citizens to Sentinels for their venoms if they have such a problem with
us.' I will have you know that Bloodloch currently has two rogue
Sentinels allied from years and years ago. If the Syssin do not want our
gold, big deal? I am sure those two will be more than happy to handle
all the orders.

Now then, back in your original public reply you tried to bring up my
history with Spinesreach. Let us take a step back for a moment and have
a look at your own shall we?

You seem to believe that you can do whatever you want when it comes to
Spinesreach, without ever being punished for your actions. Yet when city
leaders do not stand for as much, or do not see things your way, or
hell, do not return 20 000 gold which you technically donated to the
city, you have a hissy fit and quit. In fact, I even recall that you
threatened Parhelion over the gold donation.

Beyond this however, you were recently removed and enemied to
Spinesreach, even if the enemy status was only temporary. This came
about because of your plan to hunt down citizens loyal to Lady
Chakrasul, remove them from the city and then end their lives. If you'd
like to deny this, I will be more than happy to share the related Syssin
guild post with the realm as well.

This next section is about ignorance more than anything else, based
around you and your guild's views on history and undeath. It is kind of
long, but do keep reading, I am not even close to being done with you
yet.

I will start with the basics - You claim that you came to Bloodloch's
aid when Talonnb and Osai were attacking from Severn's temple� yet given
that you are a high ranking member of Lord Severn's Order, reason stands
that you were removing filth from one of His temples and that 'aiding
Bloodloch' just happened to be a side effect. So please do not start
making out that you only had Bloodloch's best interests in mind when you
decided to get involved, when as much is quite clearly not the case.

Next, it has always been my understanding that the Syssin 'hate'
Corruption, undead and Lady Chakrasul because of what happened to
Spinesreach all those years ago. The guild has also claimed that their
stance is because of Lord Severn's stance on these matters. My first
three issues with these claims are pretty straightforward:

The first - Amairgen, former lich of Bloodloch, was the city tutor until
her death. In these days the city was composed of a few mortal Indorani
and Infernals, along with countless numbers of Consanguine. Yet, she was
a loyal follower of your God.

The second - Wsalay, Guardian of the Globe of Balance, was killed when
the Bahkatu re-emerged within the realms. The reason for this? He was
loyal to Severn and was helping keep the Grand Artifice in effect. Oh
yeah, he was also undead.

The third - For a Divine that hated Corruption, the Consanguine and
Undead so much, it sure is an odd move to have a temple constructed
within Bloodloch wouldn't you say? Lady Niuri, Chakrasul or Khepri could
have done the exact same thing without going against Their 'assumed'
morals and standings in the realm.

Another interesting, rather unknown piece of history, the spirit of
Azaeru claimed to have foreseen the Second War. Though given that he had
never seen further than a few hours into the future previously, he
assumed it was taking place as he saw it or it was just about to start.
Given the despair he felt while believing he was soon to be the last of
his race, he threw himself out of one of the windows of the Silver Spire
in Kelsys.

This, along with Belladona's claim of: 'Has He now? I believe you have
been mistaken. Severn sent you here because the Age of the Ankyreans is
over. The age of my kind is now beginning. He was simply accelerating
what needed to be done.'

And:

Qeddwyn regained his composure as well as he could before responding.
"Lord, she claimed You said the Age of the Ankyreans is over. You gave
her the power to end our Order."

"I did do as much, Qeddwyn. I told you as much as well."

"But now they will rule; You have seen what havoc they did to the world.
Why would You allow that?"

"I did not say they would dominate the land. I let them assume that.
Their order shall wither, much like the Order of the Ankyreans should
wither."

"But why?" Qeddwyn began to sob.

"It must occur for the world to continue. The Ankyreans have become
apathetic to mortals, when their purpose was to bring enlightenment to
them. Those led by Yrtez have sought to transgress against the Gods with
their actions. Both sides have erred."

These examples are more than enough to soundly and strongly say that not
only was the second war unavoidable, but that Lord Severn also destroyed
the Ankyrean through plotting with Lady Chakrasul. If you honestly think
all of the events that took place up until the destruction of the
Ankyrii were nothing but coincidences, you are even more ignorant that I
thought possible.

Beyond this, as shown via Wsalay's appearance to the realms, non
consanguine, sentient undead people have existed. And as such clumping
'all forms' of undead together, simply because Spinesreach was raped by
Belladona and her swarm of Consanguine 228 years ago, is ignorant at
best. I would be more inclined to say your narrow-minded stance is
nothing more than a safety net, which allows you to live a 'simple' life
away from the obvious truth and pain that goes with it.

Moving back to your guild post, you claimed that people only go undead
for personal gain and that it is only used as leverage to try and gain
the advantage in personal politics, be it for Enorian, Ashtan, Bloodloch
or Spinesreach. You then also made note of how it is a trivial choice
and implied that having undead Syssin would some how distract you from
your "overall mission," without actually giving any examples of how this
would happen.

Now to start with, the only thing you are correct about, why people go
undead, is "personal gain" and even then, you are technically wrong at
the same time. After asking a vast number of people why they went
undead, their reasons ranged from guild requirements, to "pissing off
lighters," to even a perspective based reason of "To rid myself of the
weakness and all that which being 'alive' represents." The latter was
actually the most common answer; it was just worded differently in each
situation.

As for politics in relation to undeath, yes it happens and it happens a
lot more lately than ever before. Get used to it as the realm is split
between those that "support" undeath and those that oppose it.

Concerning how undeath will somehow distract you from your overall goal,
just admit it, change scares you to death. If things were to change on a
large scale, you run the risk of losing your puppet. I am of course
referring to the current Guild Master, Exodus.

And now, before you say that this isn't the case, it quite clearly is.
You are doing that which Exodus should be doing, he has been about, he
saw the posts I made and he even ignored my attempts to speak with him
about this situation. Why? Because you rushed ahead and did his job for
him, so why should he have to do anything? I am also aware that he knows
of your views on the second war history and that he is obviously in
agreement with these views, else he would have forced some sort of
change. Granted, Exodus no longer does anything of value, except preach
about how brilliant he used to be, expecting that to be enough these
days.

Of course, due to the hive-mind nature of your guild, this is readily
accepted. I am unsure whether this is due to ignorance, fear of removal,
being shunned within the guild, or simply fear of change. Now all of
this comes back to what I said at the start of this post, the realm is
evolving, changing and progressing... yet because of the aforementioned
points, directly relating to your guild, the Syssin are being left
behind. Go on believing that you can safely cling to the past and that
everything will be fine, go on believing that people outside the guild
will care about you, or even tolerate you after they have moved on, all
while you remain in the same place. I cannot begin to imagine how sad it
must be, needing Lord Severn to hold your hands through everything
'major' which takes place. Are you simply unable to stand on your own
feet and accept change without a helping hand?

Moving on to your second reply now -

It should be noted that every other Spirean guild feels exactly the same
as the Syssin, in terms of 'where they belong' and much the same can be
said about Bloodlochian guilds and houses. The only difference between
ALL of those groups and the Syssin is that they offer a choice -
Bloodloch, Spinesreach or no citizenship. They do not force their guild
members down one narrow path over and over, because they could 'get
hurt' with things any other way. So really, what you mean by "dividing
allies and being stupid" is simply that I am offering your guild exactly
what the other guilds of both cities already have.

Also, it should be noted that Spinesreach and Bloodloch ONLY have a
mutual defence treaty. We have nothing that states we must be allies on
all fronts and support each other unquestionably, but then if you were
still a member of Spinesreach, you would know this.

Now finally, the Syssin guild shop has been repossessed. It is now being
offered as further incentive to the first Syssin to join Bloodloch after
going undead. It will of course be free, and is located just 4 rooms
from the milking room itself.

If not for Moirean's position on the Spirean Council, she too would have
lost her Bloodlochian shop. And it should really be noted, this is
simply because of Mahakala's "consider sending Bloodlochians to
Sentinels" comment in his guild post.

I am sure the two Sentinels we have allied, along with whomever acquires
this shop, will have a nice time selling venoms to Bloodloch. Oh yeah,
all Syssin who I deem as unfit to hold ally status are now enemies as
well. I do not care to hear bitching about how this is unfair.


Penned by my hand on the 20th of Ios, in the year 228 MA.