Lady Florent.

Let us meet in person and I'll share what I've discovered so far.

I am certain we can become firm allies and put our initial disagreement over Conrad to rest

Dominic

Part 2: The meaning of the word Guard
As the common man tends his fields, the noble born is educated. Therefore, to ensure our common folk do not confuse our name with "similar" entities, I have taken the liberty to spare our common Guards numerous studies within libraries, in order to understand what we are, and what we are not.

The Crown Guard defends the crown, and carries out its special interests. Hence the word Guard. They are not "The highborn Militia", chasing riff raff or breaking up brawls over petty theft. They are the elite of the elite, of the best stock Arabel can offer.

We are not the Crown army either, to be treated like common food men. We are the ones who break the tide of a battle. We are not the Order of Aster, holy paladins sworn to a deity, but we are disciplined and couragous, and will not shy away from a fight if it serves the Realm. We are not immoral Ravens, doing our Lords bidding when the sun sets. But we are able to when needed, conduct the necessary cloak and dagger operations, needed to keep Our King and Queen safe, our realm prosperous, and our charge alive. In that order. While we may pocket fines we collect, we are not corrupt. We are the Crown Guard, and while gold is a necessity to our work, we are guided by our loyalty and devotion, not our lust for lining our own pockets.

We are, to make it blatantly obvious to all, an elite force of glorious nobles, under the purview of the very king of the land.

I agree with Lady Florent here

So far he's just being mildly irritating

Watch and see if he does something worth our time

Dominic

@v-rage
Mr. Swift,
One of the key differentiators between the common man and the noble one, is decorom. As Siamorphe teaches us, those of noble bloodlines, inherit their wisdom, intellect and charisma accross generations.
A retainer is the responsibility and honor of any lord to judge and punish. We spat in the face of Lord Misrim today, needlessly, by you using brute force where finesse would have succeeded.

If Conrad had ACTUALLY committed acts of infernalism, we would not be punishing him with a fine and thereby teaching him a lesson, we would be cutting his head off. You could not prove that he was an infernalist, because he is not. Is he a man of virtue? Certainly not. But rather than letting his actions tarnish the reputation of his master, you tarnished ours.

We do not teach those beneath us to do better, through brute force. No, we educate them like the children they are. Do they sometimes need scolding? Sadly yes. But in this case, you acted rash, dishonorably and cowardly. TWO against ONE? Mind spells in a combat between equal adversaries?
ADDITIONAL fines, because he disagreed with your sentence?

Our authority comes from the King, but through the people who trust us to be better.

In my eyes, this was a weak case, which you should have let go, in pursuit of more important matters. It ended up in you comitting banditry in the same uniform I wear. As my peers wear. Is this the best we can expect, when letting those of common blood into our ranks?

S. Florent

I have borrowed a few items from the general storage for a few days, while I await my drunk of garments from the estate.

Sabriel Florent

Dourhand is dead.

We took a fairly sizable group to put him sword. Myself, Dominic, Cyrlen a lot of Aster, Fye, Kira of the Precepts and an elf who name I can’t remember.

Kira used the Precept’s history to get her and Dominic inside and with Dourhand. We waited a while and I was going to knock through the door with magic, but kept getting told it wouldn’t work and it could endanger the two inside by the others, so we argued for a while.

Eventually after much argument, our elf turned out to be a locksmith and we got through the first door.. this triggered a alarm. We knocked the second open and found the dwarf had a bound demon of some sort and several enslaved monsters. Dominic was already down and only my healing wand made sure Kira didn’t join him.

Dourhand ran down into a forge after we beat his servants, and after a little difficulty with a warded door we followed him down. The dwarf then gave a little speech about only his weapon could slay a demon and tried to get us into helping him, but we informed him that his backers Izereth and Treth had gone rogue and battle was joined.

It was a hard battle, as without Dominic we lost a lot of raw combat power, but between my wand dispels and solid defence, Tass and Fye wand use, Kira elementals and Ma'Crag’s axe and the other Asters, we dropped him while Cyrlen made sure he couldn’t escape the area.

We recovered equipment from the lab, most notably his “weapon.” Maire of the Aster currently carries and it seems to react poorly to others... but I’ll let Cyrlen explain his understanding of it with his arcane insights.

Adelaide

Also of note there seemed to have been a few vampires in there number.

Adelaide

The issue is so far the Celestials seem intent on killing anyone who enters the Eastern Marches or Wondergrange.

We can certainly try, but if the Celestials will not speak with us it is perhaps best used to slay this fiend, if they are a leader of the devils perhaps banishing them will take the devils out of the war and end it

Dominic

Cyrlen

As a taster

I present you the theory behind the creation of the gorgon curse alchemical mixture that was used to ultimately destroy Volmar

After defeating Volmar on the walls of Tilverton and witnessing him turn into a blob of blood and bone that shuffled away and despite best efforts escaped, I decided a way to petrifty the mass was needed. Creatures that could petrify others such as Gorgons and those with a strong connection to the land such as Earth Drakes were hunted and an alchemical conction was made using a cup with a strong connection to the element of earth

With the aid of alchemists and mages the earth drake scale was weakened by acid due its connection to earth and ground down, the Gorgon blood was heated and thickened with honey and the dust of a diamond and stoneskin cast into it, Then later on a curse was placed into it as some theorise the petrification breath of a gorgon and gaze of a medusa is a curse.

The concotion worked against Volmar after his defeat in the Shield Marches

Dominic

Rhuul is dead.

The House of the Morning slew him in Eveningstar.

I don't know the full details and if his crimes were worthy of death as personally I saw him as a simple thug with little glory to be earned from dealing with him besides making sure he didn't threaten Bospir

The rest of the pages were recovered from him by Maire

Dominic

Name: Cyrlen Onthaar
Details of Note:

A spellguard and blueblood from the House of Onthaar MORE TO COME

I must add my voice to that of fellow blue blood and gentleman Phillip Rotsbane. It is unseemly to be required to endure this arrangement. Certainly this will be rectified in short order.

Cyrlen Onthaar

Blueblood,

It saddens us to hear that the fifty gold weights upon you so heavily, that a little beggars gift could be such a burden on a man so noble. Whilst we seek reimbursement for you over the dyes, we would also wish to go over the missing wine bottles from the cellar which have not been properly declared.
[A very long list follows, running up a heavy price tag beyond the wages of a peasant farmhand]

Sincerely,
Blueblood Rallyhorn

I have sent Kira some relevant reports from our files as proof that from the investigation that I made into the infernalism in Tilverton that Ravens supported it, and that after the Tethgard battle Conrad stated that infernalism was fine as the King had licensed it

The rest is up to Kira to convince the Precepts elders

Dominic

Kira of the Precept has sent this in

@valkyrie said in Letter to Dominic:

To Whom it may concern,

let it be known that your Crown Guard agent Dominic of Helm has worked hard to mend the rift between the Precept and Eveningstar in pursuit of peace and to form a united front against Arabels many threats.
He has provided council to current membership of the Precept and we will continue to keep our ties with Dominic as we move forward to a better future.

Kira, Scion of the Precept.

Dominic

Treth attacked the group that went to kill Volmar, He came from behind it seemed and screamed hello little savage to Ursula whilst using Fiends, Fireballs, Tentacles and more against us.

In the end Adelaide and her wands brought him down and he was executed for his crimes on the spot

When his corpse was burned after slaying Volmar his spirit seemed to leave his body before being claimed by something.

Dominic