Your declarations of war are laden with falsehoods and reveal your hypocrisy regarding the mere concept of mutual respect. You speak of elvish disrespect and hostility towards you. You denigrate their differences and use this to justify their deaths. You, great Khan, king of the nomads, epitomize the worst of nobility in every world.
You speak of their refusal to deal with you. Yet you failed to put forth even the minimal effort it required to enter talks with them. Your excuse was that you were “unable to find them”. As someone who has been raised in this land and knows it so well, you should have been aware of the forts they have scattered along their border. Even as someone new to these lands, I am aware of them. Most of the adventurers you consistently dismiss as foreigners and invaders are aware of them. Any number of us could have guided you there had you asked. Instead, you, the forest invader, blame the elves for not reaching out to you.
You speak of their disrespect for your people, citing the loss of your foresters. You should have known, Vidar, that the Great Forest can be one of the most dangerous places in all of Osterra. You should have known it has a will of its own. In my world, we were well aware of and respected the power of ancient places like the Great Forest. Despite this, you invaded it. You built a town there. You sent your people to cut down the woods. You must have known the forest would respond to your invasion, respond to the loss of so many trees, to the murder of dryads and the brutalizing of spirits. Despite all of this, in your arrogance, you blame the elves for the loss of your woodsmen. Even I, someone who has only been in this world for a little more than a year, could have told you that would happen. Had we not been marked by the EverWar, the forest would have left dozens of seasoned adventurers dead. Somehow, you seem to think the forest capable of slaying Sir Tanos the Bold incapable of killing a lone lumberjack. Foolish.
You speak of their disrespect for you, calling on their requirements of you in your discussions with them and their inclusion of the Irregulars in said discussions. You speak of disrespect as the man who ordered their lands invaded and their people killed, who pillages the forest and disturbs the lake. You, who in your arrogance demanded answers for the course of nature, who was so sure that there was some plot to kill your people that he could not even entertain the notion of the woods acting as they have for millennia issued demands, who had the gall to be offended at receiving counter demands. These counter demands would have seen you stop the flagrant murdering of dryads or stop damaging the homes and livelihoods of the elves’ cousins under the lake. You, who started all of this, have no right to be offended at that request or at the fact that the elves turned to a trusted ally who has dealt with you before for aid in this.
You speak of respect for all, Khan, yet I see none. You ignore and disparage the elves in their own homeland. You dismiss the people of the Caidreach Freehold as foreigners unworthy of living in these lands. You diminish their heritage here, stretching back just as far as yours, as the orcs, as the dwarves because you have not bothered to know them. You see the Irregulars only as a new force made up of people from across Osterra and other realms, willfully ignorant of the fact that we do not rule the Freehold, the fact that several of our number are from the area around Crescent's Edge and the Great Forest, and the fact that the people *chose* us to act on their behalf with outsiders. Nevermind all that. You are blinded by your faults. Your pride sees a chance to prove that a people with a long and proud history are lesser than yours. Your greed sees a chance to extract tribute from a people you view as weaker. Your arrogance sees a chance to exert your will over others.
In light of all of this, I, Amathien Razanur the Steadfast, Captain of the Irregulars and Marchwarden of the Freehold Militias, issue my formal condemnation of you and your actions. We will stand together with our elvish brothers and sisters in resisting your tyranny. The elves and our people are, and will remain, free.
-Amathien Razanur