Post by Lisa on Dec 3, 2010 22:50:51 GMT 10
Title: Something to Consider
Rating: G
Recipient: King Jonathan
Your Majesty,
I don’t want you to think my threat of tendering my resignation was an idle one, nor do I think you should assume it had only to do with training the Mindelan girl. This is something that has been looming on the horizon for a while now, because I’m afraid you’ve done quite a bit that I feel is taking our nation down the wrong path.
Nobles are here to look after the people. The king is in place to look after the nation. Your changes – educating commoners, creating houses for the sick – are appropriate ones. But having your ministers oversee them is a mistake. As the Lord of Cavall it is my job to educate, to keep people safe, to train them for battle, should a war arise. You’ve taxed the noble class to the extreme, and we don’t have the funds to make the changes you would like – and then we are criticized for not liking your approach.
You are crippling your noble class and strengthening the money-lenders and merchants who have no sense of duty toward the farmers and hunters who work throughout the country-side. We send our taxes to the capital and are left little to manage our people. The fiefs on the floodplains are floundering because when the gods create catastrophe, they have nowhere to turn.
Your changes are wonderful ideas, but at the rate you impose them, you’re bound to feel the backlash. And not from people like me, who are dedicated to this realm and supporting you. I know we don’t always get along, but I swore fealty and will be your sword arm as long as I can (which is less of a promise than it was four months ago, but still). But when you bring such hardship to families – especially those families who’ve risen up against you before, and whose surviving members have never had a wish to do it again – you’re courting a disastrous end. Do not think that the Dominion Jewell makes you infallible.
- Wyldon of Cavall
P.S. Please warn me the next time you decide to have the Champion in close quarters with me. I’m tired of feeling like prey.
***
Wyldon re-read the letter, sighed, and tore it in half. It would not do to be seen as threatening the king. But it felt better to have the words out, one way or another.
Rating: G
Recipient: King Jonathan
Your Majesty,
I don’t want you to think my threat of tendering my resignation was an idle one, nor do I think you should assume it had only to do with training the Mindelan girl. This is something that has been looming on the horizon for a while now, because I’m afraid you’ve done quite a bit that I feel is taking our nation down the wrong path.
Nobles are here to look after the people. The king is in place to look after the nation. Your changes – educating commoners, creating houses for the sick – are appropriate ones. But having your ministers oversee them is a mistake. As the Lord of Cavall it is my job to educate, to keep people safe, to train them for battle, should a war arise. You’ve taxed the noble class to the extreme, and we don’t have the funds to make the changes you would like – and then we are criticized for not liking your approach.
You are crippling your noble class and strengthening the money-lenders and merchants who have no sense of duty toward the farmers and hunters who work throughout the country-side. We send our taxes to the capital and are left little to manage our people. The fiefs on the floodplains are floundering because when the gods create catastrophe, they have nowhere to turn.
Your changes are wonderful ideas, but at the rate you impose them, you’re bound to feel the backlash. And not from people like me, who are dedicated to this realm and supporting you. I know we don’t always get along, but I swore fealty and will be your sword arm as long as I can (which is less of a promise than it was four months ago, but still). But when you bring such hardship to families – especially those families who’ve risen up against you before, and whose surviving members have never had a wish to do it again – you’re courting a disastrous end. Do not think that the Dominion Jewell makes you infallible.
- Wyldon of Cavall
P.S. Please warn me the next time you decide to have the Champion in close quarters with me. I’m tired of feeling like prey.
***
Wyldon re-read the letter, sighed, and tore it in half. It would not do to be seen as threatening the king. But it felt better to have the words out, one way or another.