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Dear Charlie,\
\
I hope you and your brother are keeping well. I know both of you don't
think much of The Club's society but I'm certain that you'll at least
warm to the charms of it's estate. Both of you know that you can travel
wherever you wish around the countryside in your carriage, please enjoy
yourselves.\
\
I shan't bother with idle pleasantries any more Charles; such pretence I
find dangerous now. I left you and your brother because it was
necessitated by your welfare. If I was to be with you now, both of you
would find yourselves in the most perilous danger of indescribable
proportions. What I am about to reveal to you is for your eyes only, and
for Roy's ears in turn. I expect that how and whenever you inform Roy of
this secret should not matter, as the nature of this tale ironically
resembles the stories you and your brother are notorious for inventing
late at night when you should be sleeping.\
\
That aside, I must begin, for I haven't much time, and I have so much to
say.\
\
Charlie, we are at war. We find ourselves opposed by a great and
fearsome army, mobilised by hate and with intentions none less than
wanton destruction. This is no joke, my poor nephew - and neither is
this an unknown foe. We find ourselves the arch-enemy of the Great
Republic of Gremano.\
\
You must already be curious why; for many many years now the People of
the South have been our sworn allies and cousins in prosperity, and for
many, this is all they have ever known. It is with great anxiety that I
must now attempt to explain to you this is no longer the case. For many
years I have hid from you and your dear sweet brother many secrets - and
indeed my very own nation - it is now time to explain everything to
you.\
\
You are most certainly aware of the origin of the world and of it's
three peoples, but of all your knowledge of the fierce natural barriers
that separated the three civilisations of Jardenia for so long, you,
like the rest of your people, know very little of the lives that our
neighbours in the East and South live.\
\
Effectively all of the servants we Nelen employ to run our manors and
estates hail from the great Commune of the Jou in the east - you and
your brother know this. What you two have very little knowledge of is
the Gremano. The Gremanese do not so actively involve themselves in the
affairs of the Nelen because they are an entirely different race of
people in comparison to the Jousen or the Nelen.\
\
For thousands of years the Gremano have lived in poverty and repression
in one form or another. They are a deeply religious people, and every
Gremanese Matriarch since time can recall has become corrupt with power,
to the detriment of his subjects. Contrary to the Nelen, the Gremanese
were aware of other Jardenian civilisations for many centuries.
Explorers who defected from Nelen society to adventure the ferocious
forests to our south eventually stumbled upon the fringes of ancient
Gremanese societies and were taken in by curious peasants. The
exorbitant dress and fascinating trinkets given to the peasants by these
eccentric Nelen men signalled the Dukes and Lords of the land to act;
the notion of another, more prosperous and grand country challenged the
authority of their state, and so their peoples were repressed, so that
such thoughts would be stamped out.\
\
The paranoia of Gremanese Lords and Ladies about the existence of a
better civilisation than theirs led to giant cities being constructed
underground, where eventually all the peasants and serfs were hidden -
for the landed aristocracy feared so vehemently that if but a single
peasant became aware of a better land, they would face an uprising and
all die a grizzly death.\
\
For many years the Gremanese Dukes and Barons lived in luxury while the
vast majority of their subjects toiled underground for ore and jewels,
but our explorers persisted. To make a long story short my boy, the
peasants learned of the secret kept from them, and because of the crimes
committed against them, indeed overthrew their oppressors! However, this
rewarded the poor no form of liberation whatsoever, as an oppressive
leadership was reformed and forced millions of poor, sorry people into
hiding and hardship once more. And so for many years, the Gremano
remained hidden from the rest of Jardenia, and it was long after the
Nelen and Jousen were confederated that the Gremanese revealed
themselves. They did so because their Republic was crumbling from the
destruction that they self-inflicted through seemingly perpetual
uprisings and rebellions.\
\
We of course welcomed them with open arms, offering every kind of
assistance we could imagine, transporting diplomats and doctors and
engineers to their stricken land. We repaired their broken nation, but
the Gremano remained somewhat recluse - they hesitated to embrace the
friendship of the Nelen and the Jousen - but they did take great
interest in the business of the Jousen. They were absolutely fascinated
by the efficient and sustainable production and movement of goods the
Jou pursued, and their system they derived Houses. Not Houses in the
form that govern our beloved nation, Charlie.\
\
Gremanese Houses are like our prosperous business magnates. Gremanese
Houses concerned themselves with supplying the Jousen with resources and
services, boosting their already mighty ability to produce and transport
- and secured an agreement with the Jousen to recieve whatever surplus
their services achieved. These surpluses grew and grew, until the vast
majority of the Gremanese population was fed and mobilised to work by
the Jousen.\
\
This continued for many years, and for a time it seemed all of Jardenia
might live in complete peace and prosperity. However, it was not to be.
The Executive Nelenry of our parliament had been coordinating research
into the manipulation of nature's fundamental mechanics - more
specifically into the cause for life - through intensive studies on
plants and certain flora. The fruits of this endeavour were not totally
rewarding, but this did not mean Malasrionese science was not forwarded.
The scientists emerged from their studies with the ability to create
invisibly small animals that multiplied at astonishing rates when
exposed to the light of a sun.\
\
My poor Charlie, this is the cause for our war with the Gremanese. Last
year, these small animals escaped from our laboratories and began to
consume the grain crops of the Jousen. At the time, the cause for the
slow infection and irreparable destruction of our world's bread-bowl was
completely unknown by anyone. To the Gremanese, the cause appeared only
too clear. To Southern High Command, the Jousen were organising an
elaborate genocide, deliberately culling the the grain on which
Gremanese diets subsisted.
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