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| − | Brothers and Sisters, Mothers and Fathers, Sons and Daughters of Caminus!
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| − | I come before you with a troubled heart. Our great isle has been beset by a host of evils in recent days. We have seen our beloved priestess sickened and then stolen. Our great leaders slain. Scandals in our trusted temples. But none can compare to the most recent and eternal threat to our very soul... that of neglect.
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| − | We all know the recent changes that have been creeping over our land. Taxes, crime, fear. These are not ills, friends, but symptoms reflecting a disease in our soul.
| + | Secretly investigate forbidden lore related to resurrection and counters against healing magic<br> |
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| − | Why this change? Ah, my friends. is not the change evident to anyone who will look at the matter? It is because no private character, however pure, no personal popularity, however great, can protect from the avenging wrath of an indignant people the man who will either declare that he is in favor of fastening slavery upon this people, or who is willing to surrender the purity of our land in the hands of merchants and foreign powers.
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| − | Here is the line of battle. We care not upon which issue they force the fight. If they tell us that the gold in our pockets is the standard to measure civilization against, we reply to them that this, the most good and peaceful of all nations of Amor, has never declared for slavery. If the gold in our pockets and slaves in our markets are the standard for our civilization, why, my friends, should we not have it? So if they come to meet us on that, we can present the history of our nation. How many of our kin have suffered raids by pirates and slavers? The Priestess Daenerys' own family suffered such a fate upon the night of her birth. More than that, we can tell them this, that they will search the pages of our history in vain to find a single instance in which the people of our land have ever declared themselves in favor of slavery.
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| − | The humblest citizen in all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the whole hosts of error that they can bring. I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty— the cause of humanity. The individual is but mote of dust; she is born, she acts, she dies; but the principles by which she lived are eternal; and this has become a contest of principle.
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| − | If they dare to come out in the open field and defend slavery as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the memory of our ancestors and the world. Having behind us our ancestors and the honest Caminan people, we shall answer their demands for slave-gold, You shall not press down upon the brow of Caminus this crown of thorns. You shall not sacrifice Caminus upon an alter of gold.
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