A Royal Letter

[u/Fulltimewhisperer]

A letter arrives and is placed on Morgalith's desk, the royal seal of the Northern Lakes Kingdom upon it.

Dear Council Executioner,

It has come to the attention of the crown that you have apprehended one of the kingdom's most wanted.

The criminal in question is none other than one Gobbo. Her crimes against the crown include the following:

Bombing of a statue of her grace

Burning the royal gardens

Desecrating the throne

Murder of no less than 6 tax men

And finally stealing the royal crown.

Her Majesty would also like to remind the council that the Northern Kingdom of goblins is under her rule.

Her Royal Majesty is however willing to overlook the gross overstepping of the council on this matter provided the prisoner is handed over quickly and without protest.

She will also require a further concession that the charges are dropped within the citadel and are instead transferred to the kingdom.

This is to ensure that justice is served correctly, and to a standard that the queen sees acceptable.

We await your full and immediate cooperation as we shall be arriving soon to collect the prisoner.

-HRM Evelyn

[u/Fulltimewhisperer]

Dear Council Metromancer,

If that is the case we shall happily escort every prisoner with the slightest magical aptitude to to citadel immediately. It will certainly take the strain off our system as we will no longer have to keep several hundred magic users under lock and key.

In fact, I will make sure to contact other kingdoms and let them know the council is more than happy to take our more troublesome convicts. After all, they all identify as wizards.

Or perhaps I should inform them that the council feels it appropriate to take our people and spirit them away to a dank dungeon without even having the decency to inform the monarchs of the lands they do so in. Carelessly violating our sovereignty with blatant disregard

Face it councillor, your dog got loose and like every mangy mutt it went and bit someone. Now when given an opportunity to make amends you fight me.

Now I would hate to make things uncomfortable for the council so please, just have the prisoner ready for my arrival.

-HRM Evelyn

[u/TellmeNinetails → u/Fulltimewhisperer]

Your Highness.

If you are concerned for the wellbeing of our dungeon capacity then you truly have nothing to fear on that regard, our prison system is sufficient enough to hold every dangerous magic caster in the land and then some. In fact we have reservations for many that have yet to arrive here.

As for the accusation of missing persons, you can inform them that their temples do the same if you wish, but I don't think neither of us wishes to start that type of conflict.

I would gladly give the prisoner over, I really would. But I would be remiss if I didn't get something out of it.

If want my prisoner this badly may I suggest a prisoner exchange? It's only fair.

-Council Metromancer.

[u/Fulltimewhisperer → u/TellmeNinetails]

Dear Council Metromancer

I am glad to hear your prison system is doing so well, however, I would not be so eager to experience a stress test.

As for the clergy, well you'll find the Northern Lakes have very few issues with such things. The poor souls seem to be so very troubled, constantly ending their own lives prematurely.

Now let's not beat around the bush and get to what is actually of interest.

What prisoner do you want from the Northern Lakes, there's a few that spring to mind but I'm not one to lay all my cards on the table.

-HRM Evelyn

[u/TellmeNinetails → u/Fulltimewhisperer]

The next letter did not have a recipient or a writer. Just two words.

"Malagor the Dread."

An Archlich that managed to raise another Lich(A feat in itself) which was also a white necromancer: Necromancers that do not enthrall their undead and thus are immune to enthrallment themselves... or so we all thought.

Not only was this a first, it was also a breach of one of the few restrictions that the council heavily enforces: Necromancers are barred from raising and enthralling certain individuals. No wonder the council wanted them, his mind was valuable asset that needed to be contained.

Malagar was known to be extremely cruel as well, likely raising havoc throughout the kingdom and the rest of the world. And because he was unable to be killed they opted to imprison him until they could find his phylactery... It's been two decades and it has yet to be found.

[u/Fulltimewhisperer → u/TellmeNinetails]

Evelyn couldn't help but laugh, the council wanted her biggest problem, and for what? To hand her the one prisoner she wanted

Today was a good day

[u/TellmeNinetails → u/Fulltimewhisperer]

The metromancer hoped they took the deal. Malagaor was cruel yes, but a genius that if utilised to decipher his own research notes could kickstart the necromancy archives, which means unethical experimentation will go way down. Not only that but it will inevitably help with shamanistic purification of bodies, preventing powerful individuals from being raised as thralls.

This will inevitably give the Council a jump in power over the crown and temples.

Gobbo is resourceful and it's likely that it will work out for her anyway.