[Matis] A dismayed diplomat - Embassies

#1 Added by Nilstilar 3 years ago Multilingual

« Laye mai, se dit Nilstilar en quittant l'Hôtel d'Alkiane, essayons maintenant de voir ce que le Karan a dans le ventre ! »
Mais il rejoignit son appartement yrkanien pour s'y s'accorder d'abord quelques heures de repos.
Et ce n'est qu'au matin, les idées éclaircies par le premier chaï du jour, qu'il prit le calame pour rédiger sa lettre de démission.

Yrkanis, le 2 de Mystia 2613-3

Votre Majesté,

Peut-être est-il venu à vos oreilles que je me suis ostensiblement abstenu d'accompagner Son Altesse Aniro dans l'expédition qu'il a menée ce 25 Fallenor, à la tête d'une troupe internationale, vers le camp des Bagnards pour y récupérer un cube d'ambre dérobé quelque jours auparavant à une tribu du Jardin Fugace.
Je viens aujourd'hui tenter auprès de Votre Majesté de m'expliquer sur ce que vous pourriez à bon droit considérer comme une discourtoisie à l'égard de votre fils aîné, pour dire le moins. Ainsi, je tiens à vous faire savoir que la susdite abstention est le fruit de la déception qui m'a abasourdi ce jour là : alors même que, lors de notre rencontre, quelques jours auparavant, près du camp de la tribu dévalisée Aniro Karin s'était montré (à ma grande joie) désireux de préserver la paix entre les nations, il permettait qu'aux marches du Palais Royal, la garde s'en prenne sans ménagement à une négociante trykère venue l'assister dans sa quête du cube volé ! L'Empereur traite mieux les étrangers (non invités de surcroît) venus en paix dans l'Agora de sa capitale !
Comme, toutefois, je suis conscient qu'une telle explication ne constitue pas une excuse pour ce que Votre Majesté peut considérer, à bon droit une fois de plus, comme un crime de lèse-majesté me rendant indigne d'exercer la mission que vous me confiâtes autrefois, la présente missive constitue ma lettre de démission de la fonction d'Ambassadeur Votre Majesté auprès de la Fédération de Naw Trykoth.

Matis Aiye !
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Nilstilar Thorec

Une fois qu'il l'eût cachetée, et avant de la confier à son izam favori, il formula in petto l'espoir que son Roi la refuse.

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#2 Added by Ghost of Atys 3 years ago Multilingual

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Karan Stevano finished reading the letter aloud and tossed it on his desk.
"What does it mean?"
The Karin Aniro did not flinch.
"The honest trader in question insulted and attacked Filirae Ayala, one of Mother's ladies-in-waiting, in Fairhaven. And she has committed enough other crimes against the forces of the Kingdom that the city guards would know her at a glance. If I hadn't been busy with this cube business, I would have sent Line to deal with her myself."
Aniro was careful not to add he had tried to go over her body with his mektoub. He hadn't succeeded and that didn't seem the right thing to say at the moment.
The king frowned.
"Are you sure about Filirae Ayala?"
"Sil. Ambassador Nilstilar does not have a monopoly on information from New Trykoth."
Stevano took the letter back and read it again.
"He could have been not aware of this incident?"
Aniro reflected. He felt that the ambassador was a little too quick to defend the interests of other nations, and that he sometimes took certain liberties with the leaders. Like when he had, at the Kamic Circle, preached peace rather than factually answering his questions. Or as his present unfortunate defense of an absolutely indefensible Tryker attested. But he had also managed to give the Kingdom a fairly good image outside its borders, which had not always been the case. The Karin replied, choosing his words carefully.
"The ambassador? Probably not. But perhaps he has been induced to believe in an isolated incident, or that the trader had got better. It is not always easy to distinguish the false from the true in the words of Trykers."
The Karan rumbled.
"I precisely expect my ambassadors to distinguish between the false and the true! And it is certainly not up to them to decide when their mission ends! I refuse his resignation! But he will have to do better in the future. And for starters, I want a complete list of the Tryker guilds and their stance towards the Kingdom. It's about time Ser Nilstilar got up to speed. And a list of the ten most virulent opponents of the Kingdom in the Lakes. And this so-called trader had better be on it! Where is my secretary?"
Stevano punctuated each gesture with a loud slap on the desk. The letter eventually flew off and fell to the floor. It remained there, forgotten.

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#3 Added by Nilstilar 3 years ago Multilingual

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Yrkanis, on Follialy 24, 2613-4

Your Majesty,

Let me first of all give praise to Your clemency. A clemency that hardly surprise me: the great Karan that you have never ceased to be in my eyes could not, indeed, not forgive the devoted subject I am for a misdemeanor of little consequence (at least I will endeavor it is so) on the future of the Kingdom.
Allow me, next, to share with you a suspicion which the reading of the missive making no demands at all You made me bring to my home the other day has made even greater. For the anonymous letter which preceded it (and of which I enclose a copy to Your Majesty) did not fail to intrigue me: presenting itself as the report of the debates provoked by the offer of my resignation (which, Your Majesty will agree, could not fail to follow the aforementioned misdemeanor), it in fact implied that Your Majesty would not limit himself to refusing it, but would in addition entrust me with a mission of intelligence! As if the Kingdom did not have a network of spies as discreet as seasoned and was suddenly forced to openly expose its diplomats!
Thus, while I had already been alerted by the mistake made by this "Ghost of Atys" as for the identity of the Serae protagonist of the incident supposedly reported to Your Majesty by Aniro Karin (in fact, it is Filirae Aylia who was taken to task that day in Fairhaven, not Serae Ayala), I now suspect that he is simply working to sow the seeds of dissension between the Nations of Atys. And this for the account of Akilia Ash Storm, because such a zizanie could well, should it last, leave soon in the Nexus Minor the field clear for the Marauders... to Jena displease!

Matis Aiye !
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Nilstilar Thorec
Ambassador of Your Majesty to the Federation of Naw Trykoth

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