The State of Sosaria

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Title: The State of Sosaria at the End Year 364

Author: Dallben the Scribe

Confounding! Such times inspire me to excell in my profession. It has been three hundred and fourty years passed since the wizard Mondain was destroyed and I cannot even begin to pen down the contrasts of then, and now. Litterally, I cannot.

There are far to many. There is one difference in these times however, that ties in with the current state of things, that I can should and will mention. This is because there is a past forgotton by many, not because they were not there, but because they have out grown it. It is possibly the catalyst of the current age that we live in. Fear and magic. The agony and extacy men have endured led magic to be shuned. You as people of sosaria kept this practice from your children for you knew in you hearts it would corrupt the souls of the weary. Instead? you kept to modest lives and taught the virtues to your sons and daughters.

You hid during the darkest of times while a great king and his men kept the balance in favor of good and order. But this is no more! Perhaps it was drastic events that shaped the minds lives and cultures of Sosaria that led to this.

The legend of Zog and the rise of Mondain.

The grapple of Minax and the climax of the Illustrious Blackthorn. Exodus with his wrath on the remnants of Ilshenar.

Mayhap it is the constant invasions of the sentient races that seem to loop in the progressing history of our worldly lives. Alas it could also be the continuing discovery of other lands that reside within our gem (this is a significant one for we thought to be alone for so long). Regardless now it is quite the difference.

Every man and woman around you weilds sword and shield or spell book and reagents, while the child is in training to be a fighter! However, I shall cast my vote on the heated issues debated among the politicians today. The absence of our king has left us with Regency, which is by definition, a person or group selected to govern in place of a monarch or other ruler who is absent or disabled. We Britannians have both the person and the group. Private soliloquy and public fray are commonplace in politics of today. It seems that the famed Lord British held in his heart a mindset that cannot be comprehended, or was never fully explained to anyone should they need rule in his stead. I say this for the virtues are lost in the minds of every individual who claims to live by them. The virtues themselves are cause for war these days. This is not however, to say that the virtues are meaningless. But when you look back to my speakings of chaos in politics it is because Brittish never left us with clear meaning for the virtues and their individual interpretations with place in life. Good is against good this day when one argues justice and the other compassion.

Evil conquests against evil just for that occasion. I find it a flaw in man that no one has taken the time to establish a peaceful interpretation in stead of the King. I'll do it now, but may a mother raise her child aye?

As one grows in life from childhood they should already know well what truth love and courage are. May these be their principals. Their roots that you have shown them as they grew. And for the grown readers here its time to go on a personal soul seach if you will. As we grow and life thru like we must admiration for truth and be honest as to represent that. To be compassionate simplily love as you are loved. And be compassionate in loving thoes who do not love you. There will come a time in your life where you will face a challenge.

You must show valor and stand up to this risk or challenge. May it be a show of witts for a mate, or a monsters life for a damsel's. There will come a time where you must judge a situation or a person. Show them justice, and tell them its in the name of love and compassion you sentence them. So that they will learn and teach others, and join you in peace.

And along lifes trails there will be times when you must sacrafice to defend what you have come to know what is right. Have the courage to give thyself. There will be times when your honor is questioned or tested. You must show the courage to uphold what you know is true. Then will come time when all has been upheld and it is time to further thyself.

Take this time in your life to set out and seek spirituality. Visit the shrines and obtain knowledge of what others know to be truth, what others love, and what they reserve their courage for. And when the year comes that you are old and enlightened.

Abandon your self. Keep thy lifes story bound in locked book in your cottage. Pick up the shepards crook and take to the hills. Speak no more of your sacrafice, your compassion, thy valorous deeds nor the idea thou art just. Seek nothing now. And when others come to you in spirituality tell them what you loved, what you help to be true, and what you reserved your courage for. Only then may you speak of it. To aid in the betterment of other gorwing bodies and minds.when we are old we are to be humble. That is all. And when the time comes that out children seek out spirituality from the old sages of Britannia, might they learn nothing but to be modest and humble.That was to say that life is a journey thru the virtues, not something to squander ill attitudes. Alas we are still left with such little guidance in regards to these topics. Will the one work of one man find place in the hearts of all? Its possible, weve seen it with our King of Olde but i doubt it. The city-state form of rule is rising and gaining power, as the kings compainions die with every passing day. We lose Dupre, we gain The Order of the skull. We lose the Order of the skull and doth rise the White Gate in Malas. Clannin sleeps in haven while the Realm of Umbra grows stronger.

Nystul creates a mirror of our world to rid of Minax, and the Dark Order takes her place. Whilst I fear her return Nystul is missing. Dead we presume, as that is what history says when one goes missing. Dead or soon to die. Now with Empire rising and gaining power under lack of formal monarchy and the city states rising, there are but two possible solutions for peace or so shall the world perish. We must pray well for the return of the great mage Nystul, and perhaps he can conjure transportation to the Ethereal Void where we can rescue, perhaps, some of thoes who can restore peace to Britannia, and alot guidance.

Or second.... We summon the Avatar.

It hath been far too long since that Earthen stranger visited our lands to restore peace. Is it possible we of Sosaria are doomed without thoes from Earth? Is no one looking out for us? Summon him. Summon I say for the sake of Britannia. All hail the Avatar. It is truth as noticed by the stranger that time travles swiftly here opposed to earth.

So even after all of this time he should still be young and able yes? May we ponder on this and turn your eyes to thoes to still hold power within the Protectorate, the Regency, and the Castle Britannia. Call on them for peace and resotation, the calm of chaos and the uproar of order.

This is one mans observations. One mans conclution, one mans opinion, and one mans call for edict. If we are to continue in a world where we love, care for women, cherish our lives and foremost educate our children then now is the time, brothers. Now is the time. If you do not make peace now, make peace with your lives, for they shall never be the same...