Two letters.

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*the following was written on A heavy vellum calfskin and delivered to the Ravens’ by a Thayen Knight on the morning after an incident in Greatgaunt occurred*

Being a man of my word, and having stated that I would not write the charges up that day, I have delivered the said charges the following day.

I, lord Valen Thanrast, Thraskir Of Thay, herby deliver the following charges, against the following individuals, involved in the incident that occurred on (insert date that corresponds to 7/26/2020)

Recounting of the circumstances.

I was in Greatgaunt to sell some things to the local merchant there. While in Greatgaunt I was approached by a First Sword of the purple dragons, who did not address me formally, who I later learned was named Silus. He said with a scrutinizing eye that I should be careful of myself while in Greatguant, and not cause trouble. Next to him stood a Hin, who I later learned was named Pollyanna. A short time later, an elven woman approached me with whom I have had a few conversions with prior. She knew that I was a Red Wizard and interested in Items from my homeland. She offered to sell me a book for which she said that the local merchant had offered her a small amount of coin. Being a generous man, and wanting to help a local, I offered her 40 gold lions from my pocket, for the book which had meaning to me of a sentimental nature, as it was an ancient book that detailed the burial rituals of Mullhurandi Nobles, of which I am one. The Hin, surly acting of a personal bias, not wanting to see me get the book, offered the elf 50 coins. An open auction ensued. Bothe the first sword and the Hin took part, and the bidding for this book passed to 12000 Golden Lions. 12000! It was madness! Now, given the nature of such an open and public transaction, I was certain the First Sword compelled by the law would step in in this case to check if the elf, was indeed selling an item in such amounts with a merchant’s license. He did not, as far as I knew he was the ranking officer of king’s authority on the matter. Having been disgusted at the loss of such a book, and such a personal slight on myself and my country worst of all, and being bound by the diplomacies of the land in which I reside, I went in To the inn to order a glass of wine. I sat by the window watching and what happened next was even more disgusting. The hin took the book, and for all to see placed it on the ground in front of the Greatguant general store. She preceded to put on a gaudy promenade, and then she cast fireball to incinerate the book. Not once. Not twice. Three times. The sand in front of the general store was melted to glass.

I wish to address the following articles against the following individuals.

Article I

Against the Registered adventurer Pollyanna

Section A

Blasphemy against a Lord

I understand, that in general, this rule applies to Cormyrian Lords, but I would ask that any lord be given a measure of respect while in your lands. I can abide by some personal slight but to have a sacred book burned in front of my eyes while I am forced to do nothing by the laws of Cormyr, is definitely a punishable offense. Let alone to watch a Purple Dragon first sword stand there and laugh at me while all this is going on...most irregular and but I will get to that later. For this I request a fine be paid to the Cormyrian King of 1000 Lions and that no additional imprisonment be imposed.

Section B

Vandalism, with malice of forethought

I charge that The Hin Pollyanna, of purposefully and willfully destroying a book sacred to the peoples of Thay, for no other reason then personal disagreements with and prejudice against the order of the Red Wizards of Thay. I can confirm that before today, I did not know this hin, and had no prior interactions with her. I seek the maximum punishment for this offense. 10000 Lions minus of course any damages paid to the general store owner, and 5 days imprisonment. Given the malicious intent of this act, I also request that this be given to the Thayan Enclave at Proscour and to the Kazark therein, in order to properly remunerate the government of Thay and as by way of apology for the acts committed.

Section C

Arson with Malice of forethought.

For obvious reasons, the casting of fire based magical spells within town limits is unnecessary and dangerous. Though no one was killed today, I am unsure of the extent of the property damage. I request that the maximum allowable fines be paid to the general store owner and the kingdom of Cormyr for this offence.
The punishment also states a curse and tenday banishment, I will let the courts decide what is necessary.

Section D

Threatening behavior

As stated above the casting of area affecting offensive spells in and around populated areas of Cormyerian towns, is extremely dangerous. I will let the courts decide the appropriate punishment.

Section E

Disturbing the peace

As stated above I will also seek the courts guidance on what is appropriate here.

Section F

Excessive Noise.

The fireballs were of course extremely loud. Again, I will leave this to the courts.


*Another letter delivered to the Posts of the purple dragons along with the first reads*


Article II
This article addresses the behavior of the first sword of the purple dragons of Cormyr, Silus.
To whom it may concern:

As I am unsure of the of who First Sword Silus’ Commanding officer is, this is addressed to the Most honorable Over-swords: Deleep Zharinthan of ‘Suzail’s Honor’s’ 2nd regiment, Ayesunder Truesilverof the ‘Legion of Roknar’ 6th regiment, Dutharr of the ‘Might of Arabel’s’ 4th regiment, Manderek Ravensclaw the most honorable commander of Castle Craig, Marcus Rowmantle of the ‘Dragon Shields’’ 7th, Erith Truesilver, of the ‘Storm Horn Sentries’’ 3rd, and most especially Ayrick Greatgaunt the most honorable commander of the Fortress at Greatgaunt.
Dear esteemed gentleman,
I write you today with concern, for I observed behavior today from a first sword, and a failure to act that I consider, inexcusable. I know the Purple dragons well enough and that their first duty regardless of personal feelings is to the king of Cormyr, and its citizens of which I am not one. I know that there is no love lost between us as nations but I urge you to consider the importance of military discipline and the safety of Cormyrians, if such behavior is allowed to continue unpunished. Do not take my word for it, this was done in front of many witnesses. Your first sword should be responsible for enforcing the king’s laws, and should have checked for proper documentation and also arrested the offending wizard, but none of this was done. Instead the militia had to step in to solve matters, and now I must file a complaint with the ravens for judgement of the above grievances. I might humbly suggest that you demote this man to blade, as he is a knight and afforded some courtesy, I do not believe any further punishment necessary.

Regards,

Lord Valen Thanrast, THraskir of Thay.

[Wylan]

*with a look that shows he obviously isn't happy about turning it in, Wylan hands over a piece of parchment, penned in his usual neat, and almost printing press quality writing to Sir Callen*

Greatgaunt Militia Significant Incident Report

Date: (FRC equivalent to 7/26/20)

Location: Greatgaunt Proper - Between Garrot's shop, Bard stage, and Fletcher's Shop.

Incident: The Hin known as Pollyanna (Surname Unknown) did cast multiple (at least 3) Fireball spells upon a book reputed to be of Necromantic magics. Said book was destroyed. No injuries or significant property damage was reported. High Mage Jamei and Myself (Wylan Amilcnam) responded to the disturbance. As I (Wylan Amilcnam) am not authorized to enforce laws, no further official action was taken.

Notes: Valen Thanrast, Thraskir Of Thay (A subject present at the time of the incident) has expressed a desire to press formal charges. I (Wylan Amilcnam) directed him (Valen Thanrast, Thraskir Of Thay) to file his grievances with the Red Ravens.

Nothing Follows.

*signed in the same quality penmanship*
-Wylan Amilcnam

[waxl]

*The following was written on a regular everyday piece of common parchment and delivered to the Ravens.

....by a small skinny but no longer hungry local child.
The child spoke of the nice lass that fed him and gave him coins enough to feed his whole family for a month,

just to deliver this letter*

I, Pollyanna, Hin! and regular folk....hereby deliver the following charges, against the following individual:
lord Valen Thanrast, Thraskir Of Thay:
involved in the incident that occurred on (insert date that corresponds to 7/26/2020)


The conducting of a wild, dangerous and potentially life threatening alchemical ritual in middle of town.
In the early evening in question the one now known as lord Valen Thanrast, Thraskir Of Thay:

Conducted an entirely untested and unproven therefore dangerous alchemical experiment in town and in presence of numerous adventurers and townsfolk.
Numerous times prior to and even during the frightening and terrifying procedure he admitted : "he had no idea if it would work",
"he doubted it would be successful",
and that he had never tried such a thing before."
A schooled and trained highly acclaimed wizard attempting something that in all his years of high training had never attempted?...sounds awfully dangerous to me.
The consequences by such reckless behavior are unimaginable. For a highly schooled and trained wizard and not just trained
...but trained by the world reknowned and reveered Thayan Red Wizards!... and he had no idea the consequences or potential for success.
I digress he actually did know the potential for success...none, he said so himself.
But in an egotistical haze I believe he put all of Greatgaunt in grave danger.

To make matters worse the attempt was to create a concoction that possibly would manifest one into a troll? or to any who potentially came in contact with the concoction?
or who really knows??
Our highly trained and educated wizard from one the most prestigeous orders didn't. He said so himself.
I can only pray to the gods that none of this failed folly of an experiment has let anything into the environment.

Even after a failed attempt and with a look of frustration? even madness?... in his eyes, he continued
uncaring of the consequences his failures could impose on the poor innocents and regular folks that watched in shock and fear.
After he finally gave up on his attempts he approached an onlooking stunned elf lass, her mouth literally wide open and standing stiff in shock, speechless she was.
At this point in an intimidating manner he lashed out at her demanding to know "why she was looking at him."
It was at this point that the brave firstsword Sylus spoke up saving the poor shocked elf lass from more threatening, abusive perhaps even unlawful interrogation.
The aforementioned wizard then turned his scorn to the first sword, speaking to him in a demeaning and baiting tone.
The Crown is blessed and lucky to have such a brave and honorable Firstsword to quell such disturbances.
His calm, cool and collective tone and handling of the situation put many I'm sure back at some sort of ease.
I will leave to the firstswords discression whether the conversation warranted any additional charges as an officer of the Crown.

I believe this traumatic, failed folly of an alchemical ritual put all present in mortal danger and the surrounding locals and farms in mild danger at minimum,
in the process of this "wild", hap hazardous attempt disturbing the general peace and tranquility of wonderful Greatgaunt.
For any of those that were present during the Wild Magic epidemic, like I was...*small teardrop sized watermark*.........
The haunting memories of what can go wrong with wild alchemical concoctions can not be forgotten here. Every clank or clink of the bottles as he wildly poured and clank! clink!
Every one bringing back a memory of a friend succombing to a wild tonic, or poor Warric day after day.
Unproven untested wild conconctions...

I think multiple charges of dangerous behavior, one charge of threatening behavior,
and multiple distrubing the peace charges seem appropriate. There is no peace when one is in fear for their life.
There are safe places for such dangerous, wild, and reckless experiments and the center of a busy town
full of every day folks just trying to get by is most certainly not one of them.

Perhaps more personal and I dare not be trivial but excessive noise should also seriously be considered.
Every "clank" and "clink" bringing a cold chill up ones spine as if the next disturbing "clank" or "clink"
would be the one that doomed us all!! ...Each attempt the risk got greater as did the fear and anxiety that was spread throughout many bystanders.

*clank* *clink* *clank*

I will seek the courts guidance on what is appropriate here.
I do believe in all hin honesty that the aforementioned Lord Valken and his wild,
reckless, dangerous and perhaps life threatening behavior should not be looked at as a
reflection on all of his Order or on the wonderful Thayan empire he represents.
I fear perhaps he may just be a poor reflection on such.
So I will leave all that tall'un long titles stuff to ya's to decide the risk to reputations and such he poses.

As I am just a uneducated hin novice sorceress from Luiren and have spent all night in tears trying get this as professional as I can.
I wish to apologize in advance for any unprofessionalism in my document.
All of us regular folks don't get the pristine training and education like the one who committed these wild,
extreme, and dangerous magical experiments in the center of town.
You would think one of that stature and assumed intellect would know better.
Its sad when someone of his self claimed esteem and prominence can stroll into a small town, using ones title, name, and privilege's to
endanger people, bully ridiculous trumped up charges on regular folks just trying to get by.
And the worst part for me is I still cant forget the sounds them bottles made as he wildly attempted his
dangerous, terrifying folly of an experiment.

Pollyanna Pea


*clank* *clink* *clank*

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*Valen laughs as he sees the letter in the inn and gets out his pen to calmly write a reply this is what he posts*
Dear Pollyanna,

There is a large difference between attempting to brew a potion with no volatile ingredient and who's primary regent is a caterpillar cocoon, which being a sorcerer and coming by your power naturally I can understand you have not studied, you may look up, and casting three exploding high temperature, offensive spells in a crowded town to destroy a book because you don't like someone. I combined a few bug parts in a vial and when I realized I was not going to be able to create anything I stopped. You on the other hand, stopped after you had melted and scorched the ground in front of Garrot's shop after casting THREE of the type of spells designed to be targeted against platoons of knights. I am truly sorry that you had the unfortunate happenstance of being in a wild magic area, which is all the more reason, you should not have cast a destructive spell. I limit my magics to those of a beneficial nature while in town, including but not limited to the potions I brew and sell for others, legally i might add, so interested per Cormyrian law. If I have unknowingly violated some law by NOT brewing a potion then please submit me for judgement. You on the other hand did violate several of the kings laws. Your claims are based on emotion and sympathy, and while that may get you far with your friends, it will do nothing in a court of law. Mine however and based on fact and witnesses. Do not make me out to be a bad person by choosing to enforce Cormyrian law. That should not have to be my job, it should be the Purple Dragon knights arresting and charging you, but that is another matter entirely.

Most Graciously,

Thraskir Valen Thanrast

P.s. There is no 'k' in my name. Thank you for your understanding.