A Response Letter was pinned beneath one of the letters sent in Old Town, penned and transcribed in very scratchy and shaky Plains Elven as well as Common.
To the Writer of this Thesis and establisher of this...Cult of--Bread? Dread. Whichever you prefer. Allow me to educate you thusly.
You start your piece by stating that "Fear is one of the basic emotions that everyone has." Allow me to inform you that Fear is by no means Basic, it is perhaps the most complex comparably to the emotion of Love, both of which are a strange collection of things bouncing off each other to dictate what your response may be to the situation as it stands. But by no means is Fear Basic.
Next comes the following sentences, "According to the common narrative, fear has to be destroyed so people won't be crippled by it. However, they don't understand. You can't remove fear from living creatures like you can't remove the pain." I counter these claims by stating that fear is possible to be destroyed, you simply do not know how because your Heretical Deities are so two dimensional that they haven't the faintest idea of how to possibly harness the antistate of Fear. As for removing fear from living creatures. Allow me to inform you that this is also wrong, even the Kathar know of the powerful tool of Morale and Hope. Even as the Kathar charged down upon the Regalian Forces in one massive amalgamation of hatred taint and dismay, they had Hope, they had high morale, they had everything they needed to believe that they would win. They did not fight with fear in their hearts, they fought because of their Beacon of Hope. Just as we had, simply put, however, our Beacons were stronger.
The following lines are rather simplistic and irrationally dull but as it stands I may as well dissect this full thing to detail to you why you are wrong and Hilarious at the same time in twin measures. You state in accompaniment to the previous lines, "However you can conquer it, and inflict in others instead." So you mean to tell me that first, you as a Cult of Bread seek to conquer Fear and inflict it therein upon others instead. It sounds to me as if you and your cohorts are just a collection of bullied youth trying to stand up against your Bullies in Primary School saying, "We MuSt MaKe ThEm FeAr Us LiKe We WeRe AfRaId." If you intend to create a society, a people, who actively stand against perhaps the greatest Powers within the World, you should probably market yourself to people with more strength than a collection of weak fools who do not know the powerful tools of Hope, and Courage. Though we will get to those later down the line.
"Just like great warriors who can bear the inconceivable amounts of pain and cause a large amount of it among their enemies, you have to become the source of fear to not be afflicted by it." Great Warriors near and far will state it from the bloody mountain tops, They still feel pain. It is not the greatest warriors who ignore it, nor actively state that they never feel it as that is a cliche hero trope that any who play that part now will likely just be making themselves a fool and a target for greater evils to deal unto. No, Great Warriors feel pain, they feel hurt, loss, weak, lost, all of these things Great Warriors feel. However what makes Great Warriors Great is through their own ability to face against these feelings, and stand above it, stand against it and push back against it. It is within these measures that a Great Warrior is on his way to becoming such, it is not because of the absence of feeling, it is because of the acknowledgment of it, and any who believe this to be wrong will never themselves become Great in turn. The Next part where you say that you must become the source of fear to not be afflicted by it is a rather interesting line, Have you inflicted fear on any? Are you a Source of Fear now because you write this letter? And if you are not and this letter was a request to become the source of fear, where did you think this would go? Am I now a Source of Fear because I challenge your claims and make humorous remarks upon you because I do not fear you? I have not felt this pain you say must be inflicted upon others? Perhaps it is I who has inflicted far more turmoil and pain upon others, thereby I have become a greater Source of Fear than you, and I haven't even tried to become as such.
Now for this Prefect of Dread character, "Thou shall become the Nightmare to overcome it." It is rather interesting to think that to become the Catalyst of Fear, you seek to remove it from your own people, inflict it upon others. Truly your Teachings make you sound as if you are repressed and trying to rally together your fellowship of Repressed Runts just looking for a chance to feel strong. Of which is a terrible reason to create a Cult of, "Bread".
I shall curb the rest of this by stating simply, "If you seek to become the source of Fear", your Words that are so easily torn apart that I in my Midnight wanderings could so easily find, dissect, and repeal such Fearmongering and Rallying Calls with but a collection fo strokes from a Pen, you must try a different route, or a different day job in general because you simply aren't good at it. And if you wish to show any Weaklings struggling against the Natural Order of things. Perhaps you should come to the surface and try to cause a bit of ruckus, that will show everyone in this Life and City, which Weaklings it is that are Struggling against the Natural Order.
By the By, to become a Symbol of Power you must have a name to be drawn forward towards, Cult of Bread is simply not going to cut it! There is also no name to mark who it is you are so that in itself is just a testament to a Cowardly origin, so to teach you how exactly it is you should instill fear, you should first start, with a Name.
Signed by,
Deo! dei Termini
Head of House dei Termini (Aristocracy)
Owner of the Southern Trade Company
Overseer of the Mountaineers
Overseer of the Bolts dei Termini
Overseer of the Steel Horned Company
Member of the Goretaan Throng
Constant Thorn in the Side of Most Everyone who makes it easy.
Oratario Ode, Cult of Bread.
