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Vanheim Warns Pythium


Earlier this week, two ships belonging to citizens of Vanheim were attacked and burned off the east coast of the Black Gorge. Five crewmen died and six more were wounded when the ships sank. The two ships, the "Miss Fortune" and the "Maid of Alteion," were entirely destroyed by Pythium's fire catapults.

The vessels were part of a small convoy bringing food and medicine to Imictan, in a humanitarian relief effort following Pythium's brutal reassertion of power over the province's nascent independence movement. We, the rulers of Vanheim, chose to aid our neighbors, who found Pythium's occupying army more brutal than even the troglodytes. Our overtures were met with fiery violence.

We call upon the civilized world to bear witness to these atrocities. Pythium has shed every last vestige of moral decency in its mad, head-long rush of bloody territorialism. No longer can we consider the Pythium empire to be other than a cancerous presence in Inland.

It ends here. Vanheim warns Pythium that its transgressions against the common civility of the community of nations will be the cause of immediate and serious repercussions. We are not the largest of nations, but we are the eldest: we cherish peace, but well we remember war.

So proclaimed, this midwinter's day, second year of Vethru's reign,

In Vethru's name,

The Konella Koreia
Ruling council of Vanheim