The file looks old and weathered. It clearly had been kept in a place where no man could find it, but the recent disturbance unearthed this ghastly treasure of the past.
You notice that several of these files are written on the same subject matter.
To King Leonard,
It is my greatest displeasure to inform you of a terrible tragedy that has befallen all of us. I remember the days when we once held an innocent conversation without knives hidden up our sleeves. They were great times, weren’t they?
But as all things are, our golden ages fall quickly and unexpectedly. Greed and ambition clouded my once noble vigor, and now all I see is the glitter of gold, the pleasures of the flesh.
You undoubtedly remember your duel with Alnen. The glimmer in his eyes as he fought to keep his life away from those who sought to enact justice upon him for his transgressions of utter treason and contempt against the crown.
Laddie, I can’t keep lying like this anymore. I can’t keep hiding the truth.
It was all a sham. A ruse cooked up by myself in order to secure the continued future of the Green Kraken. It was those damned eyes. I can’t get them out of my head. Andar, Alnen, all of this god forsaken corruption that permeates these politics.
I feel nothing.
All of us noble men are just demons, toying with the lives of others with no sanctity or shred of humanity left.
The rest of the note is illegible, likely because it was written in a stupor of some kind. The captain was always a drunk.
Cedar flipped the note.
This act was done to avenge the lives of all those fallen in the mass execution at Alnester. It’s leader and his people were remembered, and avenged at last.
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