Some letters

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It is not so long ago that Ailan Mac’kean, the Lady of Loria, was sworn into office.

A few days ago she received notice from the other leaders that they were planning something and needed to discuss this with her as soon as possible.

Ailan immediately replied that she would like some inkling of what this was about before the meeting, and shortly thereafter she received a detailed message from Emperor Dexton himself:

Dear Lady Ailan,

I want to thank you for your interest in this matter. But first, let me congratulate you on wining the election. May your decisions for your people be wise.

Now, let me explain what this is all about.

As you certainly know, our peoples have grown stronger after the Great Swarm, and we have been able to avert many kitin threats to our countries. This gives us hope that we might be able to rid our old lands from the kitin as well.

Therefore we are in need of thorough exploration of the territory.

The Atys Rangers have promised help with these explorations, however there seems to be one problem. There are a lot less homins in our old lands than it was the case before the Great Swarm. We would therefore have to leave the outposts which were built for the refugees.

Here, too, there was an offer made by the Atys Rangers. However, this requires that all nations work together as one.

We know that you seem to have certain problems with the Zorai, much like we do with the Matis. Nevertheless have we decided that we will do everything in our power to carry through this plan. The Rangers have offered us the use of their camp for the support of the refugees, as well as a base camp for our explorations, providing that every country supplies a trainer.

The camp of the Atys Rangers is situated at an ideal location, near the Ruins of Silan and along the way of the exodus as discovered and marked by the great Oflovak Rydon.

I hope that you, too, will pledge your support.

Signed, Emperor Dexton of the Fyros.

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Letter from Lady Ailan Mac’kean to Orphie Dradius:

Hello Orphie, old friend,

It came to my attention that you are willing to support the Fyros on their explorations of the old lands.
Therefore, I would be very grateful if you could give me some information about the kind of support that was offered as well as information about Silan.

With a friendly smile,
Ailan Mac’kean, Lady of Loria
Governor of New Trykoth

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Reply from Orphie Dradius:

Dear Lady Ailan,

I will order our archivist to send you a copy of our documents about Silan, or the remains of it. At first, however, the requested information:

We have offered support to the Zorai, Matis and Fyros, so that they can train their refugees in our camp, near the ruins of Silan, but only if all nations work together and share this training.

We also offered the help of two of our ranger scouts. Han Kiou and Wilk Potskin will help the nations’ representatives with their explorations of the old lands.

After these territories have been explored, we might be able to take them back from the kitin, this would also be supported by Wilk and Han.

I do not yet know if there will be means of transporting additional homins as reinforcements, but this will surely be known, soon.

For this, you would have to talk to the Kami or Karavan, however, as they possess means of teleportation, which is not available to us.

May wisdom be your steady companion,
Orphie Dradius
Ranger Leader

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This was followed by the promised letter from the Archivist:

Dear Lady Ailan,

As you requested, here is the information we have about the history of Silan:

Silan was founded a long time ago near the jungle. It was a very flourishing city and many skilled botanists gathered there to develop things undreamed of by anyone else.

Many years ago, however, Silan was abandoned due to an epidemic outbreak of unknown origin. After the last healthy Homins had left Silan, some of the most talented botanists cunningly grew the roots around the city to cut off all access to it from the outside, thus hoping to protect the rest of the Homins from this terrible disease.

When we discovered the remains of this city, the disease seemed to have disappeared and we found the plateau around the ruins to be an ideal place to defend against the Kitin. It was also in a central position along the way of the exodus, which was discovered by Oflovak Rydon. We decided, therefore, to build our main camp for our journey to the old lands there.

Some of the tribes known to us have also previously decided to settle in that region, it seems.

If you desire to find out more, it would be necessary to go there yourself, although I doubt that this will be possible.

If you want to learn more about the background of the plants, I suggest that you contact a botanist of the Matis.

Sincerely,

Erlan Tholler
Archivist of the Atys Rangers

On behalf of
Orphie Dradius

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Lady Ailan has several more letters.

The first letter is to the Matisian Botanic Organization:

Dear Sir and Madam of the Matisian Botanic Organization.

I would like to know the history of the flora of Silan since it has been abandoned by t Homins.

Can you please send me some information about it?

Yours faithfully,

Ailan Mac'kean, Lady of Loria
Governor of New Trykoth


A short time later, she received a small package with an enclosed letter.

Dear Governor,

We are delighted to hear about your interest in botanic affairs

We enclosed the “Little encyclopaedia about the flora of the woods”, written by Lirni Gillo, who has was killed by a fruit of the Dorotea in 2505.
This little encyclopaedia will give you a short view about the plants in the woods.

In and around Silan we had modified some plants to forage resources out of the ground. Mainly:

The Crolice, because of the deep roots.
The Alinea, because of the resin
The Cratcha, because of its intelligence, to forage only raw materials which were needed.

But some botanists made mistakes and the plants – particularly the cratchas – acted on their own and destroyed the city and became dangerous to homins.

Now, however it appears to be safe,.

Yours sincerely
Antozzo Vachio
Leader of the MBO

After reading the letter and the encyclopaedia, Lady Ailan consulted the High Council.
Then she wrote letters to the other leaders:

Dear Sirs,

We would like to inform you with this letter that we support your plan to defeat the Kitins and remove them from the old lands, but I am sorry that I think that we have to close the old camps immediately.

We hope for a good co-operation,

Ailan Mac'kean, Lady of Loria
Governor of New Trykoth

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Interesting, very interesting.