[Mind Elemental]

We are afraid we must decline the Ermorian offer of peace. It was Ermor's rise, Ermor's swelling army, and Ermor's aggressive fortification that brought us to this situation. Now, Ermor's Prince of Death struts the land, and Longdead rise from soon-to-be-ashen fields. Our war machine has suffered a setback, but all is far from lost. In good conscience, we do not think now is the right moment to relent.

Amhazair said:
Almost 2 years ago the peaceful nation of Ermor, pinacle of civilisation, home to filosophers, engineers, and scientists got invaded by a warlike coalition of no less than three nations, envious of our culture, and yearning for the rich and fertile plains of our homeland. Brutal cavedwellers, ferocious warrior women led by man-flaying maniacs and calculating humans who in vain try to hide their greed behind a façade of learning and civilisation formed an unlikely alliance, whose only common point was pure, naked greed.

Backed into a corner out beleagered nation was forced to alter it's course, our only goal now being survival. Our plowshares were turned to swords, our aquaducts torn down to use the stones as barricades, and the farmers and craftsmen forming the lifeblood of our nation were handed a weapon and sent of to war.

Less than a year ago, with grim determination and after a series of bloody battles all of Sauromatias forces were cornered and destroyed, and, now fearing for their own survival, the once-proud warrior-women pulled out of this war.

Yesterday, after many more grim and dark months, in which a chariot-led assault on our capitol was repelled, and war raged all over our lands, our brave soldiers and mages launched a determined counterattack on the forces still surrounding our great city of Eldregate. Less than one quarter of the great host surrounding its walls managed to leave the field alive.

Today, in it's infinite mercy, the Ermorian Senate extends this one-time offer to the Arcoscephalean invaders: Retreat from the old corelands of our nation, returning the provinces of East Gate and Ermorian Highlands to us, the rightful owners, (we're ready to claim them back by force of arms anyway) and we will forget about the vile treachery and warmonging that led you to assault our peaceloving nation. Refuse, and be prepared to endure many more grim months and years of war, in which our valiant defenders will inflict loss upon loss unto you, until your armies and your economy are so weakened that you will collapse at the first sign of any barbarian nation sending a small raiding party at your lands!

So speaks first consul Amhazarius, in name of the Senate of Ermor.