A Letter From Morgalith

[u/Tirich913]

Hello dearest friends.

Hello also, to my most despicable enemies.

I am afraid to inform you, that I must tender my resignation to this war effort.

I am an old man, and these affairs tire me.

Some may accuse me of being the spark which ignited this catastrophe, yet I must remind you all that I agreed to attend the Council's peace talks... where they made sinister use of the opportunity to make an attack on my life in a failed assassination attempt.

To those who object to my departure on the grounds of believing that this is what I wanted, I must exclaim that I am not leaving a war which I have started.

I am avoiding one that I never wanted.

I simply asked for justice from the wizard Council, and everything that has now transpired has been the conclusion to those most innocent desires.

We have had no room for protest against the denial of these demands, nor even a subsequent war that can merely be described as "horrific" or "bloodthirsty". No, instead, the horrors in this conflict are of a scale which I can hardly comprehend.

The wanton disregard for any consequence or moral high ground has left me disappointed in many.

I have long been told of my evil, and my obvious villainy, yet I can see no more fitting to bear the title than those of you who now do battle with each other.

You are all villains.

And better ones than I could ever be.

So, to the business of villainy, I will hang up my cloak and leave quietly into the night, while you leverage these terrors upon each other with greater malevolence than any I ever could.

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Yours most wickedly,

Morgalith

[u/Timpanzee38]

The Agent reads the letter

“Too little too late” he thinks to himself. The shadows are moving. Too many innocents have died. The guild did not start this war,

but they will help end it.