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An Imperial representative publishes a public letter send to all Revered Houses in the City of Regalia. Local copies might be easily available through a steward here and there making a copy and smuggling it to the public.
"For the Emperor to have words carried in the Synod during Conclave might be thought of as unusual, and some might say because of some of the present voting members, invasive even. We assure that it is not the aim of the Imperial Seat to influence the election, but rather take this most auspicious of times to offer thoughts we received when contemplating the state of the Faith and the Synod.
For hundreds of years, the Synod's structure has remained relatively unchanged. For equally hundreds of years, this structure worked. Whether it was for the basis of devoutness or faint-willed, but time has altered the needs of the organization. In the wake of the pessimism, with the assailments of apostacy and non believers, as well as ruinous powers to tear down the Synod, it presents itself increasingly more autocratic.
It is not this autocracy that is causing the challenge to the structure of the Synod. In fact, we are of the opinion that a strong Synod that dares to speak up for itself and challenge those who skirt and flirt with that which is blasphemy and heresy, is the only right way to move forward. We are of the opinion that while the Spirit invested Royal prerogative in the nobility through our laws of the land, we equally believe the Spirit invested the Royal vanguard into the Synod to ensure the nobility would not succumb to the vices of rule.
It is here that the Synod finds the root, of what we believe to be the cause, of most of their worldly issues. The source of the declining support of the nobility, the source of the public and open challenges to Synodical authority, and the decline of the authority that the Synod wields through the weakening local parishes, as well as the words of the Reverends. And perhaps it should come as a surprise, that we are of the opinion that the cause is the Synod's unity.
In Axford, we have an anecdote to illustrate the point through the sale of the five black bulls. Five Kades travelled to Winterberg to purchase a new black bull to sire a new flock for next spring. The Five Kades stand united and strong, indivisive to the seller's haggling tactics. The trader is unable to sell his stock, come high and low the Kades will not budge, for the trader must sell to all as one, or to none. It is by the unity of these Five Kades, that they force the trader to sell their winning bull for half the price, for he has lost all bravado due to his lack of sales. The Trader however feels cheated. He remains with four unsold cows, and half a wage for the one sold. Come next selling season, the four other bulls were sold, shipped off to Vultaro, and no longer available for the Five Kades now without any bulls.
But this bull was the Kathar's forbidden box. Upon bringing it into the herd, it brought about the mad cow's disease, and the whole herd went under, denying the people the brisket of calf next season, and depriving the Kades their income. The next year thereafter, the Kades chose to split their efforts, and each of the Five Kades would buy their own black bull, while dividing the herds given to them. Their unity was broken, they paid full price for the bulls, and lost the singular force that allowed them to out-do the haggling bravado of the trader.
But inversely, by splitting their herds, their individual herds grew, and while one or maybe two might have suffered the mad cow the next year, the total surplus of calfs helped secure the next year's brisket and the happiness of the people. We believe that this peasant's tale might reflect also on the Synod. As united as the Synod is, it is able to exert its authority in an autocratic manner. With all Reverends a signatory to the Bulls delivered, these carry the weight of all the cloth.
But perhaps this is its own weakness. With all signatures, with all support shared behind a single voice, should the bet be placed on the sickly Bull, the Synod threatens to collapse its own good will and support basis. Indeed, the Synod is the exact anthesis of flexibility, a flexibility that is becoming increasingly more paramount with the rapidly changing geopolitical playing field in the government and archipelago at large.
The Synod is incapable of tackling rapid situations or changing its pace when fortunes strike in a different direction, because of this rigid continuity of a three hundred year old political structure within an organization that could perhaps be seen as the most unchanged organization in history. Perhaps there would have been other organizations that could try and compete with the Synod for this title and rank, but one might quickly conclude that these organizations no longer exist, because their lacking ability to modernize caused their demise.
We do not mean to influence the Synod to reach any particular decision on the matter. We merely beg the Reverends to give a moment of pause, whether a call to unity and continuation of the old, is really in the best interest of the faith. We ask the Synod to give a moment of pause, to consider whether its indivisiveness is in fact causing the aggressive polarization and disillusionment experienced with the faithful who increasingly believe that the Synod no longer represents their faith.
Choose one winning bull, with the unity and support of all, and four other bulls find another field to graze and make proginy. Choose one crippled bull, and your fields will be empty come winter.
Similarly, all Reverends with independent Sectarian beliefs are a service on paper, but regrettable in practice when all of this wide approachability and open arms to the varied faithful is undone by a single undivided voice speaking for all while the others remain silent, reduced to a signature on a piece of paper, bound to silence by constract, and unable to open their arms to those who have different needs than the mono-pillared view that is exported to the lands beyond."
"For the Emperor to have words carried in the Synod during Conclave might be thought of as unusual, and some might say because of some of the present voting members, invasive even. We assure that it is not the aim of the Imperial Seat to influence the election, but rather take this most auspicious of times to offer thoughts we received when contemplating the state of the Faith and the Synod.
For hundreds of years, the Synod's structure has remained relatively unchanged. For equally hundreds of years, this structure worked. Whether it was for the basis of devoutness or faint-willed, but time has altered the needs of the organization. In the wake of the pessimism, with the assailments of apostacy and non believers, as well as ruinous powers to tear down the Synod, it presents itself increasingly more autocratic.
It is not this autocracy that is causing the challenge to the structure of the Synod. In fact, we are of the opinion that a strong Synod that dares to speak up for itself and challenge those who skirt and flirt with that which is blasphemy and heresy, is the only right way to move forward. We are of the opinion that while the Spirit invested Royal prerogative in the nobility through our laws of the land, we equally believe the Spirit invested the Royal vanguard into the Synod to ensure the nobility would not succumb to the vices of rule.
It is here that the Synod finds the root, of what we believe to be the cause, of most of their worldly issues. The source of the declining support of the nobility, the source of the public and open challenges to Synodical authority, and the decline of the authority that the Synod wields through the weakening local parishes, as well as the words of the Reverends. And perhaps it should come as a surprise, that we are of the opinion that the cause is the Synod's unity.
In Axford, we have an anecdote to illustrate the point through the sale of the five black bulls. Five Kades travelled to Winterberg to purchase a new black bull to sire a new flock for next spring. The Five Kades stand united and strong, indivisive to the seller's haggling tactics. The trader is unable to sell his stock, come high and low the Kades will not budge, for the trader must sell to all as one, or to none. It is by the unity of these Five Kades, that they force the trader to sell their winning bull for half the price, for he has lost all bravado due to his lack of sales. The Trader however feels cheated. He remains with four unsold cows, and half a wage for the one sold. Come next selling season, the four other bulls were sold, shipped off to Vultaro, and no longer available for the Five Kades now without any bulls.
But this bull was the Kathar's forbidden box. Upon bringing it into the herd, it brought about the mad cow's disease, and the whole herd went under, denying the people the brisket of calf next season, and depriving the Kades their income. The next year thereafter, the Kades chose to split their efforts, and each of the Five Kades would buy their own black bull, while dividing the herds given to them. Their unity was broken, they paid full price for the bulls, and lost the singular force that allowed them to out-do the haggling bravado of the trader.
But inversely, by splitting their herds, their individual herds grew, and while one or maybe two might have suffered the mad cow the next year, the total surplus of calfs helped secure the next year's brisket and the happiness of the people. We believe that this peasant's tale might reflect also on the Synod. As united as the Synod is, it is able to exert its authority in an autocratic manner. With all Reverends a signatory to the Bulls delivered, these carry the weight of all the cloth.
But perhaps this is its own weakness. With all signatures, with all support shared behind a single voice, should the bet be placed on the sickly Bull, the Synod threatens to collapse its own good will and support basis. Indeed, the Synod is the exact anthesis of flexibility, a flexibility that is becoming increasingly more paramount with the rapidly changing geopolitical playing field in the government and archipelago at large.
The Synod is incapable of tackling rapid situations or changing its pace when fortunes strike in a different direction, because of this rigid continuity of a three hundred year old political structure within an organization that could perhaps be seen as the most unchanged organization in history. Perhaps there would have been other organizations that could try and compete with the Synod for this title and rank, but one might quickly conclude that these organizations no longer exist, because their lacking ability to modernize caused their demise.
We do not mean to influence the Synod to reach any particular decision on the matter. We merely beg the Reverends to give a moment of pause, whether a call to unity and continuation of the old, is really in the best interest of the faith. We ask the Synod to give a moment of pause, to consider whether its indivisiveness is in fact causing the aggressive polarization and disillusionment experienced with the faithful who increasingly believe that the Synod no longer represents their faith.
Choose one winning bull, with the unity and support of all, and four other bulls find another field to graze and make proginy. Choose one crippled bull, and your fields will be empty come winter.
Similarly, all Reverends with independent Sectarian beliefs are a service on paper, but regrettable in practice when all of this wide approachability and open arms to the varied faithful is undone by a single undivided voice speaking for all while the others remain silent, reduced to a signature on a piece of paper, bound to silence by constract, and unable to open their arms to those who have different needs than the mono-pillared view that is exported to the lands beyond."
