by CCP » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:59 pm
Grand Vizier Sisay
Your Majesties, Talmoria-Aslistan and Cobura have shared a unique history and relationship for some years. In fact, the various branches of Your Majesties family has maintained close relations especially through Royal marriages for nearly 500 years. However, I was personally surprised when I came into my present office as Grand Vizier to His Exalted Majesty the Lord, that there is no record of any recent formal diplomatic relationship between the realms of Your Majesties' family. So the question has occurred to me, Your Majesties: could and should we build on the long diplomacy of your Majesties' Dynasty, and if so in what ways?
If I may humbly note to Your Majesties, from the Coburan point of view, not all is right with the world and Cobura's place in it at present. Not long ago, the Five Lands emerged from a protracted sectarian civil war, which, though it has not crippled the Lord's government or people, it has caused some significant soul searching in pursuit of a new understanding of what it means to Coburan and what Cobura means to the world after the loss of so many of our citizens and with a veritable array of hostile and potentially hostile neighbors at our borders. If I may also note to Your Majesties, the Lord's government has also observed warily from afar various situations concerning Your Majesties' Kingdom, especially the decades-long occupation by the Jork-allied Artanians and the plainly criminal threats (and perhaps actions, Lord forbid) levied at Likatonian Talmorians by high-ranking members of the Likatonian government. As a subject of Your Majesty's Dynasty, and as a friend and admirer of the Talmorian people, these woeful occurrences have led me to wonder why these opponents of Your Majesties' realms and dignity felt emboldened and entitled enough to make such attacks upon Your Majesties' prerogatives and people?
I wonder if Your Majesties have had similar or related observations, and within the Vizierate of Foreign Affairs, my junior ministers wonder if each of Your Dynasty's realms shouldn't be showing more assertiveness and indeed force in defense of and as a benefit from Your family's close and ancient relations.