Charade's End (Gloomlight Grove vs. Midpoint)

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Quiet and steady motion from the Bastion. Increased training and drills. Top-of-the-line gear issued to soldiers, with hushed murmurs of readiness.

And Oracle Loramelian Ueda, ruling by the pen and not by the sword, busy as ever. Letters, a deluge of letters, back and forth across Meranthe on Chireus's whispering wings.

Planning happens in Umbra's shadows, but announcements are for the light of Astra's day.

The notices are pinned to every message board in the kingdom by daggers with black-and-white hilts:

"MIDPOINT:

I have always wondered what makes fools believe they will never receive their comeuppance.

Perhaps you thought that no one remembered the days of Pleonexia and their Golden Dreamer.

That no one would recall the name Ascera, or that 'Hiraeth' has ever been synonymous with 'witch'.

That nobody would question why Atrellyan-aligned witches such as Aline Maroth protect your pet abominations from the eyes of righteousness. 

In the end, I suppose it does not matter what you believed.

History, after all, will be written by the victor."

GLOOMLIGHT GROVE

vs.

MIDPOINT.

Date: TBD

Objective: Oust the Fel-loving leaders of Midpoint to capture and try its witches. [VASSALIZE]