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Great Wars, Great Lies

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This is an excerpt from a pamphlet urging the citizens and nobility of Mytros to action against harmful ideas. The author, while their name has been lost in time, seemed to have a particular vexation with how lives were being lost because patently false ideas were allowed to flourish. Due to calling out certain organisations, this pamphlet was sure to have been quite controversial. 

... Many such beliefs exist, characterised by their lack of evidence and often, lack of logic. They range from the small, for example, that Goatlings are simply Satyrs playing a really long bloody practical joke, to the grand such as all the Arkenlander Kings being lizard creatures made of fire, to even the downright foolish such as Thylea being shaped like a sphere. But only one among them has had the support and longevity that allowed it to persist for over two hundred years with nary a sliver of proof. That being the one that we will be exploring now.   

I talk of course of the idea that all the great wars Between The Kingdom of Aresia and The Kingdom of Mytros have not been for their historically stated reasons but instead are a joint effort by both kingdoms administrative bodies as a method of distracting the population and allow complete hegemony for the two cities. The fact that many, lesser and yet swiftly flourishing kingdoms have been crushed as a side effect of these great conflicts are pointed to as proof. This belief can be found in great numbers among the followers of Sydon and Lutheria with a significant difference. The conspiracy is present of course but its instigators are not generation's of mortal bureaucracies rather the blame in their eyes likes upon The Five Gods. (Mytros forgive me for even writing such)

It's obvious. The five gods directly govern two of the three largest settlements in the land, with the Warlord Pythor in The Kingdom of Estoria and Vallus the all-knowing as the Queen of Mytros. Sure there is no equivelant in Aresia but that would be too obvious so of course there wouldn't be. Many thinkers point out that it would be in Kyrahs conniving style to rule from the shadows, orchestrating this charade. For she may be the Goddess of music but she is also the goddes of trickery. 

- An Unnamed source, high in the Temple of Sydon.

While the priesthood of both of the Titan temples disavows this type of misinformation it would not be remiss to say that the orders tolerance for anything that could blacken the name of The Five Gods is a large part why this dangerous theory has persisted for so long. It is with a heavy heart that I recommend that the freedoms of my fellow man are curtailed for far too much blood has been spilt upon the altar of such foolishness. 


- A faithfull subject of Mytros, now and forever, Ari.. [The rest of the name has been reduced to an illegible scrawl