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Brennicum Líxu Etnae diu Ientíclonno
Etnaean Crown Office for External Affairs
Dambaín 21u, 1954
To preface all that comes after, it must first be said that regardless of form, the realm which is now the Grand Covenant and those peoples that reside within it have always been friends to the Etnaean Kingdom and vice versa. Whereas the Teutons and Langobardi forever encroached upon the lands of our ancestors, ceasing only when the concord of nations came into being late into this modern era, the Franks—though they had every prerogative!—never did so, and we remember. Our peoples have forever had an unspoken accord, and in the history of all Gallo-Germania, chaotic and violent as it was, the good folk of Etnaea and Cantignia have scarcely shed one another's blood. When the Pope sent his hordes out to extinguish the flame of Protestantism, Teutons rampaging across the breadth of reformed Gallia, was it not these same Franks who were the Teutogatolíx's fiercest friends? What wonders they wrought together, smashing the hammer of decadence against its very own anvil there at Arminium! We remember. When the time of steam, of the railroad, of industry came, was it not the Franks who laid the first roots of all that in Etnaea? We remember. When the tides of war arrived in Cantignia, however, the faith of the Franks was not rewarded in kind—and this we too remember, and sincerely regret and abhor.
It is in the spirit of this lingering Remembrance that we address Cantignia now, and in which we hope that the following sentiments will be considered.
Never has it been, nor will it ever be, the intention of the Etnaean Kingdom, nor the Crown Government, nor the Sovereign, nor the people which imbue them with power, to seek war in any form with the Cantignian nation or state. We are sympathetic, and understand the plight facing the government of Cantignia—who must now seek a path in a region which suddenly seems fraught with danger. Extraordinary trauma has been endured by both the people and the national consciousness, incomparable to that sustained by any other peoples in this modern era. To the east, the flailing remnants of the EDF represent an unknown quantity. To the west and north, Engellex lingers as a baleful specter! And now, to the south, the Pope—though dead and unchosen—already seeks to play an aggressive hand! To fight against Papal excess, Papal influence, and Papal doctrine is the shared history of our two nations. We remember.
We will not partake in any such institution as this Gallo-Occidential Defense Council. The expansion of the Pope and his coven of dogmatic oligarchs into the international sphere, his participation in the affairs of the world as well as those of the soul, cannot be tolerated by the Etnaean Kingdom. This is a matter of the severest conscience, and of tremendous significance—however much it fails to realize it!—to the international community as a whole. Was it not a Pope of a different stripe who launched the Long Sea into chaos? Pope Urban is not yet even dead, and his deathly impact on Gallia still felt. We remember.
The search for security is a pursuit upon which the Etnaean Kingdom has embarked in a fashion not unlike Cantignia. Whilst it was not directly affected by the August Catastrophe, at least not to such a degree as Cantignia, Engellex's actions in that conflict shook every nation. The continental system had been decisively dismantled, the status quo forever destroyed, and all semblance of safety had disappeared. It now occurs to this office, as well as to the Crown Government and Sovereign of the Etnaean Kingdom, that we have, in this zealous quest to ensure such security, looked afar when we might have looked nearby instead. And it is so! For what do Sylvanians, but for speaking the same language and possessing the same eyes, what do they know, or feel, or love of Gallia? What do Austwegians, Asylans, or any Scanians? What does Carentania? Tyrrhenia? The perfidious Kyiv? Have they stood before Voadica, Alaix, or Cnaios? What passion have they for the forests, and hills, and rivers of Gallia? For the culture and land we share?
We understand this search for security, this desire for belonging and defense. It is one which the Etnaean Kingdom too has endeavored to. We thus make the following proposal: that Cantignia and Etnaea, along with any others who would share in our camaraderie, embrace in the spirit of Remembrance, of Gallic heritage, and Gallic unity. To trust in one another for their defense, prosperity, and salvation, rather than those men far away and of different loves. Why not an ALL-GALLIAN defense initiative, without Germanian or Scanian or Occidentian schemes there to corrupt Gallic agenda, Gallic interests, Gallic hearts?
Signed, Agricos Tanisga Líto, Crown Minister for External Affairs
