Report for Hukiio the 1st, Sholoth 1436:
Dear Grand-Master,
The city is quiet today, after the news from the mainland arrived. While the ever present energy of the population can be felt, working hard away, their usual jovial spirits are subdued. By all reports, and I have talked to many about this matter, the republican cause of the mainland is in dire straits.
I cannot say as yet that the republican cause in Taltheran is lost, but it has been dealt a major blow. Unless the monarchical coalition under Sorokin is dealt a blow soon, I fear any second attempt at a republican revolution will be short lived. Tirmar will be almost impossible for the Green Armies of Kaeir to take, given the entrenched position that Sorokin has. Tal is unclear, largely because there is no information on which way the local commander there shall go.
The Senate have yet to issue any announcement on Tirmar, but my friends in the Bureaucratic Service tell me that they have been in closed session since the first messenger-birds arrived from Tirmar.
Whilst I expect this to shake the republican faith of many here, it has had the opposite effect. Volunteers from across the Republic, even the outerlying Celtehari islands, and Kahshaartown of all places, have enlisted in the Volunteer Corps in Port Kaeir here. Meanwhile preparations for taking Tirmar City, across the Kaeirean Strait, continues.
On other matters, I am sure some back in the Society Lodge will be pleased to hear that the Republican effort to gain diplomatic support from the nearby region has essentially failed. Kaeir has been stonewalled by Mir, largely because of Basiluddin's insistence on including Talishara in the initial revolutionary efforts. Other nations have listened to the Houses' representatives, some more warmly then others, but no developments yet.
As for my evaluation of the political and governmental future of Kaeir, as you requested, I think the Republic is at a juncture. Either it continues in its campaign against its declared enemy of "royalism" on Taltheran, or it come to a detente and exists truly as the Republic of Kaeir. This latter option is unlikely currently, and I am yet to here any talk of it. Grand-Master, you must remember, when a republican says Kaeirean Republic, what they mean is a mythical Republic of Taltheran temporarily limited in its control to Kaeir. It is easy to forget this deep-rooted belief, but it is a driving factor in republican politics and psychology here - this explains the lack of defeatism when the recent news about Tirmar was received.
Aslan Tohrsan,
Journeymaster
Society of Scholastics.
Submitted as part of the requirement for successful completion of NW Midsea sojourn.
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