The Treaty of the Four Nations - ROLEPLAY

I thank you, Daomei, for clearing up who the Tenants supposedly are; indeed, I never heard about them before, certainly not in all the years I was a stateless as well as restless homin, for I only became a citizen of Matia when the Ally of the Four tried to take over the Matis economy by force, and it then still took a further few years - although not that long as my life as a wanderer before - until Jena enlightened me. It is interesting to note, though, that Infidel had neither heard of them, which sort of makes them appear like a secret organisation even among the stateless, doesn't it? Yet they are known to the Rangers, who sign in their behalf; the Rangers who also approve or refuse the elected representative of the stateless homins. I confess, I do wonder a bit.

I also do wonder about the paragraph in which you say my conclusions would be outraging, for then you are stating exactly what I said, just playing a different melody with it. You did hit a false tune however when you wrote "Only when foolish nationalists decided to slay one another, they (the stateless neutrals) stepped back ". It obviously means every kind of war between the nations. I am saddened to see Still Wyler, supported by Yrkanis and fighting Jinovitch in the Lagoons of Loria, is now called a "foolish nationalist", as that is, regarding the examples I gave and repeated so often that by now they put every reader fast asleep, exactly what you said; that a homin defending his country against invading other homins is foolish and a nationalist. I hear that with great sadness, Daomei. It doesn't outrage me; it simply makes me sad.

You say that Marauders showed up as constant residents of the New Lands only lately. Yet most of us are familiar with Aen, with Pei-Ziao, with Sirgio and others for a long time; they are residents of sorts for longer than most homins now walking the Bark. Yet, as Irfidel said, you fight them - you *still* fight them - with great regularity. The treaty you strive for says: "The Commission oversees the military coordinators of each nation to fight effectively against the Marauders. The hunt for a criminal Marauder is the only occasion where a military of a nation can cross the borders of neighboring Nations without prior authorization." It does not refer to that the Marauders have to attack first. But yet it does give a sort of hunting licence, while the original Treaty of the Four Nations only put them on a map as enemies of all homins "if they put a Nation of Homins at risk" - which had been the case from time to time, as we all know, and which was suspected when we fought them in Hidden Source, but quite obviously most of them are not a constant threat to the nations.

So why don't you address the fact that by all means life will obviously becomes harder for Marauders if the T.E.N.A.N.T. Treaty would take place of the Treaty of the Four Nations, which not necessarily is a bad thing, but a contradiction to your expression of respect for Marauders as "fellow homins". If you see the Treaty of Four Nations as void and anachronistic, as it indeed burdens homins with responsibilities that limits a carefree life of decision between the will to help in cases one wants to help, and to be lazy if one doesn't want to help at all, I wonder what would be the right description for a document which stays unclear, if not mysterious to a large amount of people, and which puts in the expressed possibility to hang a Marauder's head over the fireplace in every homin's house.