My Mother's Blade

[InThePooPoo]

They never change.

Generation after generation,

Docro men are born without a single courageous or honorable bone in their body.
It is time we start playing their game.


A series of letters fly out from the temple of the Fireblooded, personally penned by the aging Den-Mother of the ages past.

A Message to Osrona's Archmagi, Lando lux Metras:

Archmagi, 

We have not been acquainted prior to this letter, and for that you have my sincerest apologies.
Your predecessor and I also went unacquainted, and the one before him and I were bitter enemies for many years.
I write you this letter with an approval from the Fireblooded Council.

A request to turn over any prisoners of war captured belonging to the Docro Family to the Fireblooded, alive and unharmed.
What we do with them is none of your concern.

In return, the cowardice of your constituents will be forgiven,
and our dragons will ride with you to war once again.

I am sure you know we breed warriors without compare in any other part of Esshar here in this mountain.
We need not simply be distant neutral parties.

Your leadership resulted in the capture of my granddaughter, and indirectly, the murder of my daughter.
I hope that you agree to my request.

Sincerely,

Duniya Vartuul of Theria

As well, a posting made everywhere that would allow it, in every city neutral or friendly to the Fireblooded:

WANTED ALIVE - 50,000 COINS

NIKOLAI PYR DOCRO

TO BE DELIVERED TO THE FIREBLOODED TEMPLE 

AMNESTY GRANTED TO THOSE WANTED BY THE TEMPLE UPON CLAIM

SUCH AS 

VAMPIRES OF ASPHODEL

ACHYON MILITARY

HERETICAL EVANGELISTS OF AESIRHEIM

In addition, rumor spreads of an added incentive among the temple's denizens themselves.

A word from the Den-Mother Iris Vartuul herself - 

ANY FIREBLOODED THAT MANAGES TO CAPTURE A CHILD OF ALEXEI PYR DOCRO ALIVE WILL BE GRANTED DRAGONLORD STATUS ON THE SPOT.

No penalty in the eyes of the Council will be incurred if a warrior of the temple engages in unsavory or deceitful tactics to succeed in their capture.

They would not do the same for you. Do not treat them like they are dragons -

They are dogs.