Sivan, Idrasi Master, and honorable Idrasi brethren,

Your display of integrity and responsibility quiet many concerns I had
about seeing your guild in the streets of my home.

Contrary to the words spilling like sewage from the mouths of one or two
in particular, my concerns about the Idrasi were not based on a personal
hatred of one individual that I allowed to infect my perception of an
entire organization. Unlike him, I do not turn my insults upon his
guild. They are fully directed upon him when he enjoins my ire.

Rather, long before he was one of you, I had deep misgivings about any
profession that commonly practiced murder not for the need of defense of
home, loved one, or faith, but for a reward of gold.

I value Life. I believe that to sell it so cheaply is an affront beneath
the light of Ab, and an affront to the Divine influence of Lady
Epiphany, whose influence blesses Antioch.

You speak of needing gold to put food in your belly, and thus being
forced to kill contracts to live? I confess I find this difficult to
understand as well. . .as your travel is quick ..much quicker than those
of my guild who are unaided in their journeys, and have only their feet
to gain the next hunting ground. Yet I sense you refer to old days long
past, perhaps? From whence your roots came, and thus this is a tradition
of sorts. I have respect for that, even if I do not understand it.

The issue with masks is a symbol of trust. Thus far, there has been
little reason to trust, when that faith has been abused. I myself have
been poisoned by one of your guild. I have also been killed on a
contract by one of them. In a span of months, another Antiochan was
killed by your Guild leader. And, as Stavros has said, there have been
other deaths, and other attempts at random murder aside from this latest
incident.

These are dangerous precedents, and until your words, there was no true
sense that any means to deflect irresponsible or wicked acts from
Antioch's people would be in place.

Of late you and your Northern brethren have gained the grace and wisdom
to shuffle off all aspects of interdependency with the taint that
wallows in our world. . . perhaps not in the same way that most of
Antioch perceives such things, but at least giving a common ground
between us.

This issue with masks is but a symbol of trust and respect in my own
view. But indeed, let us put it aside in favour of a true bond between
us. Let no Idrasi accept a contract on or harm an Antiochan, so that we
can accept them into our walls without apprehension or concern. Does
this not address the underlying issue of faith and forge the bond that
is sought after?

You are but a voice in your guild, as I am but a voice in my city. Yet
perhaps an understanding can be forged between us, which would be
further embraced by our organizations.

I thank you for addressing this serious matter, and I have faith in the
possibilities that may come from a poor beginning.

Sun's Blessings to the Shadowed ones in the icy North.

Sinahr Elarien,
Amira of the Dance
Antiochan Sandstorm

Penned by my hand on the 7th of Ultio, in the year 466 AD.