Siduri,

Is your scholarship this oft tainted by bias? You initially backslide into admitting that arrestations and imprisonments were affected. Then, when considering further sources outside of your one initial source, you admit that there certainly were deaths and civilian massacres. I had hoped to keep the source picking from the public forum, however you wish to use the edited letters of Ermogene and Gwen as sources for your own, yet Ermogene recounted firsthand to Gwen having to escape being absolved in the streets of Thera as if a dog, beneath justice and undeserving of a trial. Considering the stance Church towards Chaos, and its zealous stances in general, you expect us to take your word for it that these were merely lies concocted by DeKempt and the Occult in hopes of keeping all in the dark? You have even reached to ludicrous lengths to present the theory that Lady Belladonna orchestrated the crusade of the Church, which you at first claimed did not happen.

You see, a scholar looks for evidence to support his theory earnestly. He does not look at the facts and try to frame a story to suit his needs, requiring additional facts. The facts tell us that the Cabals were raided, the Church did kill anyone suspected of practicing with the occult, and these strike dates and locations are aligned in the accounts of Ermogene and Gwen who ran for their lives as well as Aldrien and Judicael whose forces persecuted them. Your attempts to pretend that the accounts of the Burning Times are untrue and that your precious Luminai remain innocent are pathetic and speak to the true lack of scholarship in Targossas.

As to the rest of Sapience, you have seen again someone who lives and worships in the city of Light and Fire, a city whose leaders and Divine spread a faux gospel of purging Sapience of Chaos or Evil by means of what? Destruction and Fire. Yet they go to great lengths to deny that their ancestors in Shallam had the same goal?! I urge you scholars, not to be fooled by this blatant shyster. She promises you good with one hand and holds a dagger with the other. I promise you nothing, Achaea.

Perfect, Unending, Nothing.

Truthfully, I will not take thy hand, and my dagger is drawn. Will Sapience march alongside us to Oblivion, or be sucked into the wake?

In Truth,
Jinsun ZeDekiah, Priest of Babel


Penned by my hand on the 18th of Lupar, in the year 663 AF.