The words the Kingdom long hoped never to hear were spoken this morning in the Marelian Assembly: a formal Declaration of War against the Kingdom of Eyehasseen. The decree, delivered amid wild cheers in Marelia’s capital and immediate condemnation in ours, has ended months of provocation and silence.Continue Reading
By Aldus Penwright, Senior War Correspondent, The Times-Observer The quiet fields at the Kingdom’s northern edge woke before dawn today to an unwelcome procession: Marelian infantry in light marching order, boots dark with river mud, advancing in files across the hedgerows of Northreach Ward. By sunrise the trespass was plainContinue Reading
It has been scarcely a month since the rope snapped taut around Rodger Bianchovi’s neck, ending the life of a man whose lies nearly unmade the soul of the Kingdom. Yet in the weeks since, Eyehasseen has discovered something remarkable. Out of falsehood’s ashes, truth has taken on the dignity of a cause.Continue Reading
The Truthkeepers’ Guild, the first of its kind, will stand as both a moral and practical bulwark against the contagion of falsehood that has haunted the Kingdom since the rise and fall of Rodger Bianchovi and his Red Banner.Continue Reading
By Staff Writer, The Times-Observer The Royal Palace of Inverness, long considered the safest place in the realm, was the scene of an extraordinary security breach this past Seventhday, when members of the Royal Guard intercepted what officials describe as “an act of coordinated sedition from within the Palace walls.”Continue Reading
Within the hour, the tower was a smoldering skeleton. Only its lower foundation remained intact. “We found the blast pattern facing east,” said Lieutenant Verne of the Signal Corps, his uniform still dusted with ash. “That means the charge was placed on the Marelian side.”Continue Reading
In a move that has sent a chill across the northern frontier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday ordered two senior Marelian envoys to depart the Kingdom within forty-eight hours, citing “activities inconsistent with their diplomatic status.”Continue Reading
By Clarion Hask, Special Correspondent, The Times-Observer In a city where dawn is the hour of truth, the presses rolling, the milk carts rattling, the bells sounding the day’s first reckonings, it was midnight that gave the Kingdom its rudest awakening. A junior telegraph operator of the Inverness Central SignalContinue Reading
The calm that once lay over the northern frontier was broken on Fourthday morning by the sharp, unmistakable crack of rifle fire. What began as a routine patrol near the River Nord crossing has now become the first recorded exchange of hostilities between Eyehasseen and Marelia in over three decades.Continue Reading
The fog that clings to the River Gate Docks has always been thick enough to conceal a crime or two, but seldom one of such consequence as the plot now uncovered beneath its worn planks. What began as a routine patrol by the Royal Constabulary late on Fourthday evening has unraveled into a full-blown sedition inquiry — the latest thread in the sprawling conspiracy left behind by Rodger “The Liar” Bianchovi and his circle of deceit.Continue Reading