Ash Sea Chronicle/1st June 2007/News Reports
June 1, 2007 -
Report from Basil. Message sent to the Rulers of this world (13 recipients)
Most August Lords,
Malice is correct, I did burn that temple to the ground. When we arrived we were aghast at what we witnessed. The priests of the temple had cages full of women and children. The were cutting pieces off from the children and making them watch as they fed those pieces to several large serpents they had near the altar. The woman had been brutalized and we found one being fed live to an especially large serpent.
I must admit that my ire did rise at this site, and I could not contain myself. I assumed that this was some heretical branch of cultists who had broken off from the main rites of Magna Serpentism. If this is what all such temples practice, I will not rest until I hunt down every last one and burn it to the ground.
When I saw the horror on the face of that little blue eye child whoes recently severed arm had been fed to a snake as he was forced to watch and pray to the serpent just moments before we arrived, I must say that I was horrified.
So yes. I burned it to the ground and we did put each of the murderers and torturers posing as priests to the sword, but the rest of what Malice claims is twisted by his mind or his sensibilities. We gave sanctuary to any who wished it and only executed those who stormed us in an attempt to keep the caged women and children from being freed.
Is this the religion that Falasan and ASI support? Please tell me that this was some abhorant perversion. Or do they still try to claim it was wrong for me to eradicate this horror before it could spread to the rest of their church?
Sir Basil High Marshal of Eston, Duke of Massillion
--- This has widely been regarded as one of the most insulting and blatantly false letters we have received from Basil, who has proven himself to be a man of little honour by his recent authorisation of such tactics. Now perhaps, we can brand him a liar for spreading such ridiculousness across the Continent.
