The Truth About “Duke Edgar Balliol”

Allyce,
We appreciate your diligence, but in what is due, you should still pay mind to the treat we are about to make.

To all who treat these Duke's as separate people,
Time and time again we have never been refereed to, by this town, as separate individuals in this regards. We where tried and executed, wrongly, under the guise that just one of us may have committed a crime. Time and time again, we are told insanity does not excuse a crime in your lands here. When this applies to us, we don't question it; though we will question everything else about you lot. What you say here paints you as the most pathetic and hypocritical of creatures we have EVER laid eyes upon.

We don't care who speaks up to say "Moostrav go away" after we say this. We wont afford that individual the mercy of even acknowledging their action.

Somewhere here you all mistook order for the arbitrary concept of"good", and now your the crazy one. You forgot the men who share a body among you, and how they have been treated. It is not the treatment we are screaming about here, but the willful ignorance to the difference in how we, versus this Duke, are approached in reference to our state of existence.

If you dare try and charge these men separably Travance. You will regret it.

I'd nearly forgotten about this stack of papers. But seeing as it's getting some attention again, I want to throw in my two coppers on the matter. Let me start by saying this man turned my parents and my people into POWs and hostages. I watched my mother come within an inch of execution at this man's hands. The duke has committed countless heinous acts that he needs to answer for but executing him like a dog in the street would make our actions no different from his.

He needs to be captured alive, if possible, to face the count's justice and properly answer for his crimes against Kormyre and her people. Should the results of that trial come to execution, then at least we acted under the purviews of our laws. If we cut him down without a second thought, we prove right the fears and negative rumors circulating among the people of our kingdom. The duke has a lot of people convinced that Travance is full of monsters. We should endeavor to prove that wrong.

-Odette D. Lucatiel

I don’t believe anything I said or wrote or have said seems to indicate I’m out to kill this person “without a second thought.” In fact, I do believe that I stated that I would try to bring him in alive. I also stated earlier that if the worst happens, we have the means to resurrect him or heal him if necessary.

What I also stated is that I don’t want people in this town to take this information and act like this person is a “good person” deep down inside and that they can reach it. I want them to treat him like they should- he is dangerous. He should not be disregarded. He should be treated like the threat he is. I do not want people fighting for him on our battlefield because they think he can be redeemed because of a second personality that was still treasonous.

- Allyce

My comments are directed to the whole, not any one person. But I'm glad to hear that we're in agreement.

-Odette D. Lucatiel

Ahhh Odette,
You would call us a dog? Fun fun, cousin says I get to play with you in the end then?

Would not every other time you lot have done such reinforce their opinions. A dog that always bites, but does not one time, is still a dog that always bites. Look at your forefathers. Dirty, Bloody, Paladin. Change is expressed over a waft of time, you are... too late to change some opinions.

As much as I want Baliol to pay immediately for his crimes, I know that a trial is in order and the best way to do this.

However my problem is this... How do you try someone that is no longer a whole person? The Baliol we will be fighting and capturing on the field is honestly just a monster. A tyrant that just wants to subjugate us all to his whims. I don't believe there is any remorse in there and I am under the impression that the other half of him isn't actually in there anymore, but I could be wrong and I don't know how to tell. All I know is that it is locked away in a mindscape somewhere. Do we need both for a fair trial to happen? Do we find the second personality and try them separately?

Squire Keladry Aybara
Private of the Baronial Guard