Dear Cyrene,

When are you going to settle on a definition of pirate?

From what I can tell currently, it is anyone who attacks your ships for any reason, or you deem people pirates just for going against your word apparently, or look at you crosseyed.

I do not claim ownership of any waters, nor do I demand any tythe or ransom or payment of any kind to sail to avoid any aggression I might show. I simply am the shark of the waters, and am attacking any and all ships not from my village.

Your city this month has attacked two Eleusian ships, both ships showed no aggression towards your Armada of ships that you apparently need to sink just one ship. If your sailors were competent, less would struggle and sink to any attackers.

I do not shy away from sea battles, this month I only engaged after your city persisted in attacking my ship, so I Defended myself, my ship, and my crew, and in doing so sunk one of yours this month.

You try and shun me, and make me feel bad, and say I am an evil pirate, but I laugh and grin at the fact that it takes so many of you to even attempt to sink me at sea. You smudge my name all you like, the fact that I'll continue to sink PoM first above all else apparently matters nothing to you.

Does anything matter outside of your walls? Are you glad you got your walls back? you're welcome, I did help in that.

You claim to be mighty, and the worriors of the weak, but all I see is your weakness, and your oppression of fredom of the oceans. Your statment just now indicates that your organization is claiming ownership of the oceans, dictcating who can or cannot sail. Are you any better than the PoM themselves at this point?

The oceans are free, who are you to tell others who can sail upon the waters, only pirates claim territory on His oceans

-Artanis

Penned by my hand on the 2nd of Glacian, in the year 801 AF.