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Empires built on blood always end the same way. Rising through lies, only to collapse beneath the weight of their own failures. The leaders of Crownforge are no exception.

"When I came to the north to build a Temple for Vinaska. It was Crownforge who asked for me to join their people, to aid in times of war. There I witnessed a kingdom at war with itself.

A meeting was called, for the Shogun to hear the plights of his people. They do not want war. Instead, asking for prosperity, for stability.

The Shogun offered neither, only his burden.

When people voiced their concerns they were ignored. When they challenged him, they were branded traitors, Cor'Kalo learned this firsthand. Nearly a decade of leadership passed in Mitsuya's rule and nothing has changed. The same empty promises, refusing to listen to his people, only a call for war.  Even his own court began to fracture. 

Soheil, once his most loyal supporter, declared him unfit to lead. The Shogun's right hand turned against the one they swore to serve. A sign of a failing kingdom.

Amdist this coup, Mitsuya responded not with words or wisdom, but accusation, lashing out at his own people and calling them traitors. When chaos erupted, I stopped Soheil's assault. Proposing for a vote instead of violence, offering myself as an option as an alternative, not for power, but to guide the North towards something better.  Mitsuya's answer was simple. His family and loyalist called me a traitor, a criminal, shouted for my death.

The Shinjitsu family did not earn this mountain. They seized it through blood and deceit, a coup that stole dwarven homeland and called it progress. A ruler who cannot hear criticism cannot lead, one who fears accountability, one who values his ego above his own people and rather see them die than admit he cannot guide is already a tyrant. 

Nowhere is this more clear than with Haruhi.

Managing to defend myself, I held Haruhi in my grasp, Mitsuya had a choice. He could've asked for her safety, he could've sought for peace and protect one of his own. Instead, he begged for my death. I offered Haruhi countless of times, exchanging her for my freedom, offering an end to further bloodshed.

Mitsuya and Estelle refused every opportunity.

When one of his own was in danger, her life was not a concern of his. Rather, his pride.

This is not a leadership. It is tyranny dressed in a phoenix banner.

Within a year I prevented a war after Soheil's death threat against Annie, saved a citizen that Mitsuya and his court abandoned for years. I stopped a coup that would have ended in Mitsuya's death. I have done all of this while building Vinaska's temple nearby.

Imagine what I can do when the North is no longer chained to the Shogun's disease."

To the People of Crownforge

"I aim to march for the people in the North who deserve more than a sinking ship. For the people who wish to build rather than bury. The ones who want a future instead of another war. To give the people a chance to make something new, to be apart of a bigger change.

Change is hard. It is terrifying. It means turning back on your old loyalties. To start anew from everything you know.

I do not ask for you to fight or die for me. I only ask that you look at what stands before you. 

Ask yourself.

When your leader had a chance to save Haruhi, did he ask for her safety, or did he ask for my death?

I am not the villain, it is the one who has failed his people. Hold him accountable.

The north deserves a new beginning. Not endless wars or inherited power by "divine right". Not burdens disguised as leadership. It deserves a foundation strong enough to outlive us all. I've already begun in the ruins of Enos, Crownforge is next. 

The Shinjitsu plague ends now."
- Vulkahn Folhammar

Note: This is addressed to the people of Crownforge and those who call the North their home. Members of the Shinjitsu name and their loyalist who wish to contest these claims can find me in the wilderness or a set date.

[Appo]

A white rabbit has been lurking in the shadows since the presiding incident.

Since the flames burned, and all hel broke loose.

He threw the first stone in this mess.

He's not done throwing them.

The voice of declaration of one Vulkahn Folhammar is met with yet more of that coldness.

"We deserve more.

We deserve more than the Shinjitsu, who seek power for themselves,

but fail to defend their people when the moment arises.

All this talk of a burden - but when the time came, they did not step up.

They did not do what was necessary.

They failed us.

We deserve more than Soheil.

A man who had an opportunity. A man who held our dreams...

...and walked away when the flame was burning.

He did not do what was necessary.

He failed us.

We deserve more than you.

Vulkahn Folhammar.

Another snake in the grass.

A man who 'redeemed' himself.

Stepped out of the shadows...

...and dared to declare himself as an answer.

Imagine that?

A man, who'd only just stopped being the problem.

Then, he joins our people.

Fails to truly mingle, such that none...

...were ever truly on his side.

You and Soheil are not too different.

Both opportunists.

Both rebuffed.

...You may not be the villain.

But you're not our hero, either.

You have no right of claim to the fire I started.

You haven't earned the right, just as any other.

A greedy, glory seeking sort, you are.

Failing to see how you don't cut yourself apart...

...from the poison that already festers.

You are not our future, either."

In Crownforge, there is no answer.

Not today.

[Velkor]

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Along the bridge into the snow filled north two pieces of art have been hung upon the cliffside. 
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Each a depiction of a certain red haired man.
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Along the bottom a kid stands snitching and spreading rumors about who might have done it. 

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Some passerby's even had some words on it.

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"I approve of this really."
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"...I must say, I see the resemblance."
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"Konnichiwa, Porkahn."
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"Porkahn is dastardly work."

[Astronomical]

A Response from Arcadia

Per the matters regarding Vulkahn Folhammer and his actions, and recent discussions between the many of Arcadia and Crownforge,
it is rumored that collections of words cross the paths of those between the nation against the Folhammer in a public matter from
whence verbatim words are written and noted to be conveyed to those of Crownforge/Lingxue publicly. A missive sent.

A courier will not only deliver it to the Shogun Mitsuya's hands, but publicly inform all of their people the statements regarded
by Caelan A. Aubreen, Murielazelle Eisande, and Nymphaea Aubreen towards Vulkahn Folhammer.

"You didn't try to save anyone's life. You incited everything. You kidnapped a woman that wanted to protect her people, and caused more harm than good while calling it tyranny. You are a liar, just like your ancestors.

You have no allies and you are fully alone in this idea of 'fixing things.'

Therefore, never step foot in here again until you change your ways. You are hereby banished from the realm."

"Because you are willing to accept casualties. Start a war that'll kill people.
If you're going to spill blood, do it sparingly.
If you're going to condemn people to die, minimize the impact.
Minimize the broken families.

Because you are a pathological liar and have taken every opportunity to bend the truth under your perogative.
The furthest thing from what Crownforge needs.

Because, if you wanted to save people, you wouldn't damn people."

"It all starts with Life,
For Life is the beginning, and we are all born in Life.

Each of our Lives has meaning, and though there must also sometimes be an end, as the world we live in is not perfect, one must always measure carefully the weight of murder.

To take another life is no light deed; always pay respect to Life, even in matters of war and Death.

That of which, from accounts of others in both Crownforge and who'd witnessed things in Arcadia, were not respected in kind.

Vulkahn Folhammer, though you and I wander a path different, I cherish life more than you know- I strive for peace where peace can be birthed, and you.. have done exactly the opposite with which you had offered in reparations between these nations, souring them further, destroying what trust there could have been built, and damaging things further.

This is not what it means to save people. Senseless destruction with no purpose behind its facet that one calls sanctity..

Goodness, never..

While I appreciate what efforts you've made towards that Temple.. I would only like to see your work towards such to appreciate, rather than what slaughter you have strived for."

Vulkahn Folhammer is permanently banned from the Realm of Arcadia
given his actions against Crownforge and holds no backing from the nation whatsoever.