[Numahr]

O mindless Aguadillas!

We admire your foolish bravery. Surely it is thrilling to contemplate sneak attacking anyone without prior notice, right to the capital. How exciting to slaughter unprepared provincial defense.

Now beside the excitement we can imagine in your other otherwordly mind, your last move raises a couple of questions even the wisest Oracles could not find a beginning of answer for.

- Why being so cruel with innocent slaves, butchered for a price much higher than the unsupported PD they could barely vanquish?

- How do a couple of Illithids with their bare hands plan to besiege a Cave City, not to mention conquer it?

- Why attack the one Nation well-known for her mindless soldiers (the whole Golem arsenal, available at research level 0) when your main strength is mind attacks? All your Astral and Mind magic will be pointless against marble soldiers until you research Arcane Bolt, which is not exactly for tomorrow...

- Why attack the only nation in this world whose field armies are almost entirely amphibian and can easily attack your underwater holdings without special magic equipment / mercenaries / independant tribes?


Let us be honest, your attack took us by surprise but failed. We give you a chance to retire your poor Illithids before they meet the cold of Granite Swords held by mindless Attentive Statues, and sign an immediate and clear Non Aggression Pact of 5 turns. This is all we ask although we will have to repay for provincial defense and we loose a precious turn of capital recruitment. If you insist for war, be aware that it will force us to start amphibian operations to ensure safety for our lands.

To all other nations: we have no intention to develop an underwater empire bordering all your lands and threatening you of sneak attacks like R'lyeh practices. The only problem is that if we cannot sign a strong peace treaty with R'lyeh, we now have to predict random invasions from the seas in the future. So, in case we need to invade R'lyeh under the waves, we invite you to to grab and keep any water province next to you. Contrarily to usual practice in holy wars, we will be happy with any "unfair" land grabbing by other nations. Our only goal, if this war degenerates, will be to get rid of the R'lyeh threat.


Nur-i Tagh, the Mountain Light
on behalf of Jörmungandr, Patron of Soldiers
*** Ancient Oracles of the Deep Council unanimously align themselves with this declaration ***