Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 1:03:49 GMT -5
A copy laid in front of Vortigern while nearly sixty copies were sent across all of Vulcanis, one to each Laird, Clan Head and one to the High Laird himself. One sent to Amerys Cadag via Donal Cadag.
To the Lairds and Clan Heads of Vulcanis and those who read these words,
From the Islands to the Valleys to the very Mountain clans this letter pertains to all who proclaim and identify themselves as true born sons and daughters of Vulcanis.
I, Laird Vortigern Tullis mac Arturo a'Cruach address you, but I speak for more than just my self.
The Northern Royals consider us their property!
Llwyn Newyth has been taken by Clan Cruach and for the following reasons,
The Northern Royals, title the Cadag Laird with the title of Royal Steward of Vulcanis. The very definition of a Steward is a servant who is in charge of overseeing his master's property. And the High Laird carries the title of Royal Steward to oversee the property of his Royal Masters. For too long the Royal Families of the North have considered Vulcanis as property for them to dictate, and we are to feel honored? Protected? Our very culture and traditions preserved?
Since the compromise of old made by Laird Willbrard of Clan Cadag, the Laird's of Clan Cadag were granted the exclusive and hereditary title of Royal Steward! An assured connection between Northern Royals and Vulcanis's own Clan Cadag, a significant and unfair advantage I might add in times of Grand Gatherings where High Laird's are chosen and elected by Clan Lairds. Laird Connell, Laird Vaughn, Laird Penrose, Laird Cruach could never gain it, never hold advantage of such prestigious Northern connection. This goes against our way of life, our way of High Laird election in the Grand Gatherings. The ways we've chosen a leader to lead us for the generation.
Should any other than the Laird of Clan Cadag be elected, they would be nothing more than a puppet leader standing to face the selected Royal Steward of Vulcanis.
Worse even, as tradition dictates, since Laird Willbrard Cadag of old, the heir of Clan Cadag is warded to the Northern Royal Family as a child in the northern region of Bordelaix as a part of his upbringing as Royal Steward! They take one of our own as a child to influence, to manipulate, to teach him the importance of controlling us and tending to the "Royal Property". This is a demand, tradition and title held against no other Laird or as the Northerners call Lords of Archades except the Cadag heirs. Rather than normal pledges of military service or royal taxation we are regarded as something to be controlled. Something that requires a Royal Steward!
An insult to all with Vulcanic blood!
Why might you wonder? Because we are the First Men, while the rest of the kingdom migrated here by ships and hopes, we were here. While plagues ravaged lands and people of the North we were here, blessed by our faith and powerful Vulcanic resolve. While the rest of the Kingdom drowned and suffered under the clouds of ash and sulfur from the erupted Volcano we stood thriving under it's source. They fear our strength, they fear our resolve, they fear our traditions and the ways of life that made us survive living close to the very Volcano that threatens us every three decades. I ask all Lairds and Clansmen of Vulcanis to realize this long standing enslavement and let us put an end to this title, an end to this child warding.
For too long we Lairds have never trusted the Northern Marcher Lords nor their Northern Kings, we should demand in the very least we have a High Laird unconnected by insulting title and demands to ward our heirs. We should demand a return to the old ways of life, the ways of strength, the ways of straightforwardness that made us so formidable since before the Founding of the Kingdom.
Conflicts in Vulcanis have always been about the same thing, and that is the preservation of our culture and the doubt in trusting Northern Kings and Marcher Lords. Grant us a High Laird that can gives us those.. and no matter what Clan name is carried he'll be unanimously followed. We hold the city to finally gain the attention of those who have attempted to smother out our cultures and traditions. And it will be held and warded justly until the following demands are met...
Firstly, the Title of Royal Steward will be denounced, and here forthright to all outsiders of Vulcanis they shall refer to our High Laird with the proper title of High Laird followed by his Clan name. Should they seek to title him with a northern title we will accept nothing less than Prince of Vulcanis and all northern addresses that such a name demands.
Second, Clan Cadag will end the tradition of warding it's heirs to the Northern Royals they will instead be taught by their own fathers in the ways of governance, war, our culture and Vulcanic traditions as was the ways of our ancestors and the ways of our livelihood.
Third, no other outside title, office, demands, or parlays offered by the Northern Royals nor Marcher Lords that affect the seat of High Laird will be accepted, except by unanimous vote in the Grand Gathering of Lairds and Clan Heads, to return a voice to the people of Vulcanis.
Fourth, All current blood feuds, demands of vengeance and retributions will be ceased by Clan Cadag and those loyal to the High Laird upon acceptance and agreement to implement the above demands. As such will be done as well by all other great Clans of Vulcanis.
Fifth, We shall continue to grant military and economic aid as well as trade to the Northern Royals. Oaths of fealty to the Northern Royals henceforth shall be committed by the physical standing of our High Laird and never kneeling. The High Laird shall kneel to no being but the Maker himself.
Sixth, a Grand Gathering shall convene to implement these demands officially into Vulcanis Laws to be followed and adhered from this day until the last of days.
Seventh, the Northern position and title of Knight shall be abdicated and forbidden to be held by any man or woman born of Vulcanis nor acknowledged in Vulcanis. Instead the Grand Gathering shall create a title of it's own for those who seek to follow such a way of life in Vulcanis. One of pride, one of the Vulcanic way of life, one of Vulcanic choosing. A man who can fight has always be known as a man, to title him otherwise because of Northern dictates is pathetic.
In return the city of Llwyn Newyth shall be abdicated and returned to Clan Cadag and the ancestral home of Clan Cadag, Caerllwyn will be returned with it vaults intact, it's armory unmolested. However should these demands be unmet we are willing to defend our way of life against those who would attempt to smother it, to the last man and let it be known those who fight us that they seek no longer to embrace the Vulcanis way of life. But rather seek to destroy it, and it's culture and traditions for the appeasement of Northern Royals and Marcher Lords.
To the Lairds and Clan Heads of Vulcanis and those who read these words,
From the Islands to the Valleys to the very Mountain clans this letter pertains to all who proclaim and identify themselves as true born sons and daughters of Vulcanis.
I, Laird Vortigern Tullis mac Arturo a'Cruach address you, but I speak for more than just my self.
The Northern Royals consider us their property!
Llwyn Newyth has been taken by Clan Cruach and for the following reasons,
The Northern Royals, title the Cadag Laird with the title of Royal Steward of Vulcanis. The very definition of a Steward is a servant who is in charge of overseeing his master's property. And the High Laird carries the title of Royal Steward to oversee the property of his Royal Masters. For too long the Royal Families of the North have considered Vulcanis as property for them to dictate, and we are to feel honored? Protected? Our very culture and traditions preserved?
Since the compromise of old made by Laird Willbrard of Clan Cadag, the Laird's of Clan Cadag were granted the exclusive and hereditary title of Royal Steward! An assured connection between Northern Royals and Vulcanis's own Clan Cadag, a significant and unfair advantage I might add in times of Grand Gatherings where High Laird's are chosen and elected by Clan Lairds. Laird Connell, Laird Vaughn, Laird Penrose, Laird Cruach could never gain it, never hold advantage of such prestigious Northern connection. This goes against our way of life, our way of High Laird election in the Grand Gatherings. The ways we've chosen a leader to lead us for the generation.
Should any other than the Laird of Clan Cadag be elected, they would be nothing more than a puppet leader standing to face the selected Royal Steward of Vulcanis.
Worse even, as tradition dictates, since Laird Willbrard Cadag of old, the heir of Clan Cadag is warded to the Northern Royal Family as a child in the northern region of Bordelaix as a part of his upbringing as Royal Steward! They take one of our own as a child to influence, to manipulate, to teach him the importance of controlling us and tending to the "Royal Property". This is a demand, tradition and title held against no other Laird or as the Northerners call Lords of Archades except the Cadag heirs. Rather than normal pledges of military service or royal taxation we are regarded as something to be controlled. Something that requires a Royal Steward!
An insult to all with Vulcanic blood!
Why might you wonder? Because we are the First Men, while the rest of the kingdom migrated here by ships and hopes, we were here. While plagues ravaged lands and people of the North we were here, blessed by our faith and powerful Vulcanic resolve. While the rest of the Kingdom drowned and suffered under the clouds of ash and sulfur from the erupted Volcano we stood thriving under it's source. They fear our strength, they fear our resolve, they fear our traditions and the ways of life that made us survive living close to the very Volcano that threatens us every three decades. I ask all Lairds and Clansmen of Vulcanis to realize this long standing enslavement and let us put an end to this title, an end to this child warding.
For too long we Lairds have never trusted the Northern Marcher Lords nor their Northern Kings, we should demand in the very least we have a High Laird unconnected by insulting title and demands to ward our heirs. We should demand a return to the old ways of life, the ways of strength, the ways of straightforwardness that made us so formidable since before the Founding of the Kingdom.
Conflicts in Vulcanis have always been about the same thing, and that is the preservation of our culture and the doubt in trusting Northern Kings and Marcher Lords. Grant us a High Laird that can gives us those.. and no matter what Clan name is carried he'll be unanimously followed. We hold the city to finally gain the attention of those who have attempted to smother out our cultures and traditions. And it will be held and warded justly until the following demands are met...
Firstly, the Title of Royal Steward will be denounced, and here forthright to all outsiders of Vulcanis they shall refer to our High Laird with the proper title of High Laird followed by his Clan name. Should they seek to title him with a northern title we will accept nothing less than Prince of Vulcanis and all northern addresses that such a name demands.
Second, Clan Cadag will end the tradition of warding it's heirs to the Northern Royals they will instead be taught by their own fathers in the ways of governance, war, our culture and Vulcanic traditions as was the ways of our ancestors and the ways of our livelihood.
Third, no other outside title, office, demands, or parlays offered by the Northern Royals nor Marcher Lords that affect the seat of High Laird will be accepted, except by unanimous vote in the Grand Gathering of Lairds and Clan Heads, to return a voice to the people of Vulcanis.
Fourth, All current blood feuds, demands of vengeance and retributions will be ceased by Clan Cadag and those loyal to the High Laird upon acceptance and agreement to implement the above demands. As such will be done as well by all other great Clans of Vulcanis.
Fifth, We shall continue to grant military and economic aid as well as trade to the Northern Royals. Oaths of fealty to the Northern Royals henceforth shall be committed by the physical standing of our High Laird and never kneeling. The High Laird shall kneel to no being but the Maker himself.
Sixth, a Grand Gathering shall convene to implement these demands officially into Vulcanis Laws to be followed and adhered from this day until the last of days.
Seventh, the Northern position and title of Knight shall be abdicated and forbidden to be held by any man or woman born of Vulcanis nor acknowledged in Vulcanis. Instead the Grand Gathering shall create a title of it's own for those who seek to follow such a way of life in Vulcanis. One of pride, one of the Vulcanic way of life, one of Vulcanic choosing. A man who can fight has always be known as a man, to title him otherwise because of Northern dictates is pathetic.
In return the city of Llwyn Newyth shall be abdicated and returned to Clan Cadag and the ancestral home of Clan Cadag, Caerllwyn will be returned with it vaults intact, it's armory unmolested. However should these demands be unmet we are willing to defend our way of life against those who would attempt to smother it, to the last man and let it be known those who fight us that they seek no longer to embrace the Vulcanis way of life. But rather seek to destroy it, and it's culture and traditions for the appeasement of Northern Royals and Marcher Lords.