I would like to open this with my reply in short, and perhaps explain
more of it as I go. With that, I would say only this; stuff it.
Your thinly veiled attempts to bring your own guild out of the dredges
you have watched the Wytchen in scares you, or perhaps worse than that,
knowing that your city has watched your guild decline so rapidly over
the past few years that your Imperator (And not yourself) has given the
Wytchen guest status.
While I can appreciate the irony of your offer as can any other with a
reasonable taste for it. I find that your offer is fundamentally flawed.
Ana is far from the only active member of our Coterie, anyone with half
of your ability to perceive would know that, so I can only assume that
you intentionally neglected to acknowledge the rest of us. Please
explain why any of us would want to be somewhere where we're passed off
as nothing before we even arrive?
Being Wytchen is not about the easy road, nor the higher one, certainly
not a drier one. But we will make do as we always have, and those among
us tempted or even swayed by your offer will be better off with it.
Likewise we will be better off without them. Do not waste our time
further with your ignoble and false generosities.
Thank you.

Penned by my hand on the 8th of Letum, in the year 596 AD.