Ellanor Etatè was a woman of her word. She said she would write to Brottslight, so she was writing the letter.
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Felix Ålrune Brottslight was Großfürst of Eclipse-Verbrechersyndikat – the Umbracresti Union of two crime Syndicates – and had a strange accent for a Westerner.
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The former provincial adjunct had elegant cursive handwriting just as the Eastern Absolute Socialist Party had demanded of its members, the letters looped and curved, and did other letter things.
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Speaking of letters, this is what Ellanor's said.
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Here's a rewritten version with some improvements:
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"Greetings, Brottslight,
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I hope the Verber-Eclipse Syndicate has been busy with their endeavors. I have an offer for you: The Coalition Against the Abyss has offered me the position of Guardian of the East if I can help eliminate Great Khagan Xantè of the Estrin Dominion. I I have devised a plan to achieve this goal by manipulating his son, Gur Khan Jiro, from my position as his wife's handmaiden. However, I require your help to make it a reality.
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Jiro's Split Personality is a vulnerability that could be exploited, but I believe your organisation's presence might be enough to instill fear in him, rendering such manipulation unnecessary. I need you to travel to Estrin Island and meet me at the Palace as soon as possible. Want to be Guardian of West-Northwest?
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May the Star ✵ light thy way through the darkness,
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Provisional Perfect Ellanor Etatè
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Delivering the letter was easy, waiting for Brottslight to get it was not.
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Ellanor grabbed the Estrin Times to stave off boredom.
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The headline read, “𐐆𐑌𐑅𐐹𐐯𐐿𐑇𐐲𐑌 𐐲𐑂 𐐹𐑉𐐬𐑀𐑉𐐯𐑅 𐐪𐑌 𐑌𐐭 𐐿𐑉𐐰𐑁𐐻 𐐺𐐮𐑀𐐮𐑌𐑆 𐐮𐑌 𐑄 𐑌𐐫𐑉𐑃𐐨𐑅𐐻” (Inspection of progress on new craft begins in the Northeast.)
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Ellanor was curious about such an odd choice for the headline. The Covenant must have been very impressed by whatever Malum is building. The paper did not bother to extend the use of the Tongue of the Void to the main body as most people in Estrin did not read it.
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The rest of the article was equally interesting: “An inspection of the first three airships belonging to the new Firebrand-Class Heavy Cruisers has been shown approval by the Earl, the Grand Narcissian Fleet, the Covenant of the Void, and the regional press – the Northeastern Herald – as representatives have been sent to attend the inspection: Countess Mi Lillian Ego nèe Florent, Lord Admiral Blackwing, High-Priest of the Void Aesop, and Reporter Snooper. Earl Malum released a statement about how disappointed he is that he can not attend due to an extremely busy schedule, but is pleased with the progress he has heard of nonetheless.”
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Malum was building airships, worrying, but not directly impactful to the Northwest or East. What did page two have in store?
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“Coalition Against the Æbyss (CATAE) spies discovered!”
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Ah, that might be impactful.
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“The Emir of the semi-autonomous Isle of Ostrov in addition to the Warden of the self-governing Dependency of Skála have been successful in uprooting at least fifteen (15) agents planted by CATAE in an infiltration mission that was found to have been called Operation Island Breaker.”
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One last (major) article caught her attention, “War in Umbracrest imminent?”
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A War would be the last thing that Umbracrest needed, the political situation had vastly improved during the Æther Age as factions had merged into larger alliances to reduce a vast amount of bickering micro-regions to a handful of groups.
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“Experts representing the provisional Meritocratic Council of Aquiloria that formed after the assassination of Supreme Meritocrat Berote have warmed that rising tensions in the West of Empyrea may escalate into full blown warfare. The Narcissian backed Archduchy of Umbracrest has undertaken increasingly aggressive actions towards the Anarcho-syndicalist faction in the South-Southwest of Umbracrest knoen as the Ad Coelum Federation of Syndicates after disagreements over a joint operation to clear a sector of hyper-aggressive mutated fauna undertaken by the Anocratic Union of Fire. The West now has two clusters of factions waiting for an excuse to attack each other: the first is formed of the Ad Coelum Federation of Syndicates, the Anocratic Unionof Fire, and the Free City of Noctè. The other is made up of the Narcissian backed Archduchy of Umbracrest, the Commisarate of Sovia, and the Kleptocratic criminal union of the Eclipse-Verbrechersyndikat. The Biotechnological Commission of Umbracrest appears to be remaining neutral but had had recent dealings with CATAE.”
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Ellanor put the paper down.
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