O'Shea Family/Emmitt II

His Story

After recieving word of his father's death at the hand of Taselak, Emmitt II set out from Bolgar for revenge. He traveled across the sea to the South-East Island, and chose to join Ikalak upon arriving, as his father Emmitt had always spoken highly of it. To his dismay, Emmitt II was soon to learn that the Ikalak his father knew was no more.

He began on the same path his father had taken, fighting bravely in many battles and soon becoming a Hero. However, things weren't looking very good for Ikalak. The realm was losing a 2-on-1 war, regions were being lost, and gold was becoming somewhat scarce. Prime Minister Alanna Anaris sent out a request that all nobles should write home to their families and ask for money. To Emmitt II this seemed strange, since the Judge Bulletin strictly forbid nobles from sending any money home to their families. How could the High Council feel it was acceptable to take monetary assistance from the families of Ikalak's nobles, but at the same time enforce strict penalties on any noble who sent any money to his family?

So being that Ikalak was a Republic, he decided to make his opinion heard. He sent a message to the High Council requesting they review this rule based on these two scenarios:

If a family was to donate money to Ikalak, and this donation ultimately helped preserve the realm, the noble who donated should not be punished for sending money back home to repay his family's generous loan. Conversely, if the realm did fall, any noble who donated should not be penalized for trying to recover his family's loan before the Realm of Ikalak was dissolved.

Emmitt II felt he was doing the right thing by pointing out a possible oversight made by the Council, and protecting both himself and the other members of the Republic. The Prime Minister's reply was not at all what he expected.

Alanna called him foolish for thinking it was ever a good time to send away "Ikalak's money". She then stated that she and the Council had no intentions of paying back any of the money they recieved from families since they considered it a gift. She closed by saying that maybe Emmitt II should look for a new realm if he couldn't understand this.

Emmitt II was surprised and hurt by the Prime Minister's response. He responded saying that he did not want any part of a realm who would treat the generosity of it's nobles in such a dishonest manner, and that he hoped the Council would reconsider their stance on this issue.

A week passed, and Emmitt II had yet to recieved a response from the Council. He became frustrated, and decided to spend some time reviewing the Laws of Ikalak. What he found saddened him. This was no Republic! The realm was being run like a Tyrrany; so many rights of Ikalak's citizen's had been taken away, even to the point that one law allowed punishment of a noble for "criticizing any member or decision of the High Council!"

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