A concerned conservative.

My Fellow Mektorians,

The recent necro-portals which ravaged Muedale, Lepersex, & Old Lepersex are a tragedy of unprecedented scale. We have all witnessed, in a palantir or a scrying pool, horrific scenes of families losing their souls to liches, or being held hostage by rotting, sentient skeletons. It is a terrifying time for us all. Why, then, does the Opposition Party insist on politicizing the situation? Why are they obsessed with drawing false connections between monster-spewing necro-portals to the Realm of Unlife, and the necromancers who claim supremacy over Death itself? Newsflash, liberals: Now is not the time to argue whether necro-portals are exacerbated by necromancers’ perfectly-legal crimes against Nature!

We could be praising those neighbors banding together, sprinkling salt-circles when government clerics can’t get there. We could be praising our first-response paladins, foregoing sleep to banish lesser wights & battle the roving packs of Hellhounds. And we could be praising local blacksmiths for turning their white-hot blast-forges into shelters, when the Baron’s shelters fill past capacity. But, the ol’ opportunistic Opposition just won’t let a good tragedy go to waste, will they? No, they ramble about how we “need more government clerics & paladins,” and how “tax cuts & ideological blinders left us unprepared.” They even have the gall to claim “we should seriously prepare for next time, because there will be many next times!” Oh, I’m sorry. Did those politicians suddenly turn into soothsayers, with magical knowledge of what the weather will be like next year? No, of course not, because only necromancers know the secrets of True Divination. But they’ll take any chance to push their anti-Mektorian, sky-is-falling agenda, no matter how many good people they insult! Classic callous Opposition.

…only necromancers know the secrets of True Divination.

You know, I saw a liberal ice-troll in the town square yesterday, praising the fact that the necro-portal over Muedale destroyed their massive death-crystal refinery. He called it “poetic justice!” How cruel. Even if you buy the ridiculous notion that refining living souls into death-crystals (crucial to necromantic science!) increases Unlife activity, can you really be so evil as to cheer the decline of a cornerstone Mektorian industry? What about the good people who have jobs harvesting unrefined souls from the poor, criminal, & insane? Are they worthy of your scorn? My own grandpappy once refined an entire peasant village! Is he a “villain,” leftists? Are you happy, libtroll, that unemployed soul-harvester families won’t have enough money for food? I bet they think the government should provide food & silver to those affected, the awful bastards. I bet they’re truly gleeful because soul-harvester families live mostly under Electors who supported Baron Donâl — and the only thing they blindly hate more than upstanding Mektorian necromancy, is Baron Donâl!

What about the good people who have jobs harvesting unrefined souls from the poor, criminal, & insane?

Boy, they’re never going to let that selection go, are they? The Baron won a majority of the aristocracy, fair and square. To hear the Opposition complain, you’d think Mektor were a democracy, or some other insanity. Mektor’s betters didn’t want a crooked Elf-Queen! Get over it! Unless you’re bringing up the heroic landslide victory where the wise Electors, under the whispering influence of even wiser necromancers, saw fit to install Baron Donâl & his Dark Mistress on our Mektorian throne. That’s a moment worth celebrating!

In conclusion, nobody should listen to the awful, mean-spirited ramblings of Opposition politicians, nor their well-bribed mouthpieces. They control the media, which is why I’m beaming this directly into all your minds, bypassing their corrupt gatekeepers. Ignore their propaganda about “Life change” and the end of the world! Trust in Baron Donâl! Mektor’s necromancers will get us through this, and we all will be better than ever, stronger than ever, and more necromantic than ever!

Yours in Unlife,

Senator Vecna

Lich-Master, Necromancer’s Guild of Mektor