Rise Anew

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Letter from Mikhail Romanov (1 hour, 15 minutes ago) Message sent to everyone in your realm (135 recipients) Lords,

I have been at Fontan's side for a long time, and I am one of the last who were around when Fontan was brought to her knees by the likes of Perdan and Caligus all those years ago. Fontan over the past few years has had an incredible success, living through a golden age that saw her propelled from the tiny and honourable realm she was to a great military and economic power. With our wealth and good leadership came a period of endless successes, something that we should be proud of.

But at the same time its apparent that our Golden Age has bred weakness in our ranks and our nobility, who have become drunken and dependent on our endless successes and advances. I look at all our fine young nobles who are here today, most of them are honourable, loyal and ready to do their duty even when things are tough, they are not scared of a challenge just like their forefathers weren't when the odds were against them. But it is apparent that we have some nobles who are not use to things being tough and when the odds are stacked against us, and are beginning to lose their discipline and panic if things are not so easy.

This behaviour is extremely unproductive and pointless. The only things this brings is inactivity and lack of discipline in our military, and that is what will lose this war in the end, not anything else. I will ask any noble who carries on like this to cease it immediately and control themselves. We need your strength and courage now more than ever, not your fears and discontent.

History on this island has a way of repeating itself, and as someone who has gone through this before, I know that things are tough now but things could be far worse, in fact in the past they were far worse but we saw it through. Fontan went from a realm with three regions to become a great power that even surpassed the might of Sirion and Perdan, no one all those years ago would have seen this happening when the enemies were bashing at our gates and burning our farms.

There are no silver bullets to our problems, no easy ways out, the truth is that our enemies are scared of what we have become and have decided to carve us up so that they may return to the old order of things.

It is every nobles duty to help Fontan to the best of their ability, and we need everyone's help with this, no matter if times become dark again.

What is going to help is when nobles are strong, loyal, steadfast, positive and constructive in our realm. When we stand united, together, we will have the best chance possible of seeing this through and being to fight another day. This will not be our last war, there will be more, things on this continent change all the time and the sands of time are always in motion. What's important is that you give yourself and everyone in Fontan 100 percent of your effort and energies in making this realm put up the best fight possible, so that we may all look back on these times and remember the unity, friendship and comradeship that helped us see it through.

What we face is an incredible challenge, but an incredible oppurtunity for the nobles of Fontan to atone for our sins and put this realm back on the right path. If we see this through together and honourably, our realm will benefit in many ways that we will become a stronger people ever than before.

thanks,

Mikhail Romanov (Lord)