My dear Thallia

COPPIED FROM THE PRIVATE VAULT IN DIMCOLT
My dear Thallia in turning over in my mind the contents of your last letters, I have put myself into great agony, not knowing how to interpret them, whether to my disadvantage, as you show in some places, or to my advantage, as I understand them in some others, beseeching you earnestly to let me know expressly your whole mind as to the love between us two.
THE REST OF THE LETTER WAS DESTROYED WHILST DUCHESS THALLIA MIDENYAW TRIED TO CAST IT INTO THE FIRE TO PREVENT HER HUSBAND FROM READING IT BUT IT IS KNOWN THAT IT CONTAINED A REQUEST FROM PRINCE WYMARC OF MIDDENYAW TO ELOPE. THE DUKE OF MIDDENYAW AT THE TIME, WYMARC'S FATHER WAS DEATHLY ILL AND BEDRIDDEN, THIS WAS A CRUTIAL FACTOR WHEN THE ARMY OF DIMCOLT MARCHED DOWN AND RAVAGED THE LANDS OF MIDDENYAW. UPON READING THE WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE LETTER THE DUKE OF DIMCOLT SUMMONED HIS BANNERS AND DECLARED WAR UPON MIDDENYAW. ON PAPER THIS WAS A FOOLISH DECISION AS DIMCOLTS ARMY WAS MUCH SMALLER AND INFERIOR BUT IN REALITY PROVED A SMART MOVE. THE ARMIES OF DIMCOLT MOVED WITH ONE PURPOSE DIRECTED BY THE SINGULAR COMMAND FROM THEIR DUKE, THE MIDDENYAW FORCES ON THE OTHER HAND WERE DISARRAYED AND MISCOMMANDED WHICH RESULTED IN A SERIES OF DECISIVE DEFEATS. THE FIRST OF WHICH COST THE LIVES OF PRINCE WYMARC AND HIS FELLOWS, THEY LED A DEFENSE AROUND THE RIVER BUT WERE UNDERMINED BY THEIR OWN DUKE ISSUING COUNTER ORDERS FROM THE SAFETY OF HIS CASTLE WHILST IN THE GRIPS OF MADDNESS, THESE ORDERS WEAKENED THE FLANK OF THE MIDDENYAW FORCES AND CAUSED A ROUT WHICH KILLED THE PRINCE. THE FURY OF THE DUKE OF MIDDENYAW WAS NOT DIMINSHED HOWEVER AND HE CONTINUED ONWARDS TO THE CAPITAL AND DEMANDED THE DUKE COME AND ACCEPT HIS CHALLANGE. THE OLD DUKE DIED BEFORE HE COULD AND HIS STEWARD ACCEPTED TERMS THAT GRANTED DIMCOLT HUGE SWATHES OF LAND AND MUCH MORE POWER IN THE REGION.

Purpose

The original purpose was for the soon to be Duke of Middenyaw to declare his love to the Duchess of Dimcolt and to elope together.

Type

Text, Letter

Medium

Paper

Location

Middenyaw