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From Severian
Marcella, Notes: Various
Rico,
Be sure that the building materials arrive here
safely. There are still plenty of monsters in
the mountain paths, so I'm relying on you and
your Templars to guard the caravans carefully!
Brother Valcleve and his men are working on building
a series of shrines along the paths, so if you
have any chance to assist him, please do so. If
we can enforce the trade paths with the powers
of the gods, it'll make shipping far easier.
Severian
PS: For the last time, the Occultists are NOT
sacrificing babies. They just speak of the powers
of darkness to get respect; the true scholars
among them realise that "light" and
"darkness" are irrelevant to Chaos.
They're as Seleucarian as you, so you had better
learn to get along with them.
Eveline,
Thank you for your continued efforts in the building.
Nikolas and I have sworn that our mud huts will
be the last to be replaced with stone houses,
which was pretty noble of us at the time. Nikolas
doesn't seem to care, but personally, I'm getting
tired of forever throwing frogs back outside in
the middle of the night. If you need any supplies
that you don't have, please tell me so I can push
them through.
Severian
Omdoria,
Although I greatly appreciate your desire to
help, it seems that most of our citizens are afraid
to fly in a flaming chariot pulled by demonic
goats. I can't for the life of me see what their
trouble is, but I guess the flaming-goat concept
just doesn't appeal to one and all. Please continue
to provide light for the nighttime work crews,
and battle against the jungle beasts, but try
to keep a low profile when it comes to eating
hearts and decaying your victims' living flesh…
although I know full well you Occultists aren't
pure evil, many of the other citizens seem to
disagree.
Severian
Chief Grolmar Lightning-Hand, Lord Baron of Moghedu:
Our leader King Nikolas gratefully accepts your
ceremonial gifts of statues and fine leathers
and humbly requests that you accept in return
our minor offering of gold and carved mahogany
from our new holdings. Although we are barely
beginning to consolidate our new domain, we will
not forget your help in establishing a trade route,
and we look forward to generations of productive
commerce. I regret to say that we cannot as yet
assist you with your grievous drought, but once
we have working wells we will be very glad to
ship you as many barrels of water as we can spare.
Yours in Friendship,
Duke Severian Marcella,
Right Hand of the King
Meggan,
I am sure that between the expertise of your
Druidic dowsers and the technical skill of Crenge's
dwarven engineers, we will obtain a working well
in no time, despite your recent difficulties.
Please update me on your progress; our water-barrels
are running low, and the frequent rainfall is
not sufficient to meet our needs. The river water
remains tainted with the same diseases that plagued
our journey here; I fear that dark forces are
at work, but we must struggle on regardless.
Severian
Nikolas,
For the love of the gods, will you take an interest?
I know that you've got large matters to think
on, but the day to day running of the realm is
killing me. It's like you've lost your direction.
Come on, Seleucar is what you always dreamed of
creating, and now I've got so much paperwork I
don't even have time to track you down and talk
to you in person!
Swamped Severian
Guard Captain Ballan Fremont:
This could be a moment of national emergency,
insofar as we have an emergent nation. Nikolas
has disappeared. He stepped off into the jungle
to take care of some business, and then he didn't
come back. It's been four hours now, and I'm beyond
worried. Try to keep this as low profile as possible,
please, but use whatever means are necessary to
find our erstwhile ruler.
Duke Severian
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