Fellow defenders of Tyria.
As many non-asuran will read my letter, I will try to use less sophisticated speech, so even a drunk Skritt can still understand it.
As the dragon threat grows larger, we need a leader, who understands the needs of the people. Tyria as a whole stands before two choices:
At one side, we got the wealthiest man of all, who does business with people, who have proven to be willing to do anything to get more money, while on the other hand, we have a person, who stands firmly by her beliefs. We do not have to go as far as to analyze the character of these persons. Let’s just look at straight facts:
Personally for me, the incidents at the Thaumanova Reactor have been very shocking. I went there personally and helped to clean up the leftovers of the explosion, risking my life to try and contain extremely dangerous chaotic materials from spreading.
Many krewes gave their lives to seal off the hazardous anomaly caused by the explosion, yet we still know so little about it.
For me, as a man, who helped to clean up and still follows occasional distress calls, researching that incident might be the most important one out of all the points brought forward by Ellen Kiel.
However, let’s move on to the important matter at hand: How to win the war.
Instead of bringing forth suggestions on how to win the war against the dragons, Evon Gnashblade simply tried to give alms to the masses. He is using the power of his company and company assets to try and bribe the people into voting him, as if we were dumb Skritt – by the way, are those filthy rats allowed to vote? – whose only drive is to “get shinies”.
He did this for a reason: While it might seem, that the lowered prices on keys might be good for the population, in fact, it will only benefit the ones, who already are wealthy. It will have some short term impact on Gem Stock prices and drain lots of money from the people, but in the end, all the money will slowly flow either to the wealthy traders, who can afford those transactions and control stock prices for pretty much anything or directly to the Black Lion Company.
On the other hand, Ellen Kiel brought forth some fabulous suggestion: Lifting the difficulcies, travellers face these days, when trying to get around. Because this is also, what will allow us defenders of tyria to respond to dragon attacks and hazardous incidenta at the reactor with ease.
Everyone faces travel expenses. But while for the wealthy ones, they are merely an inconvenience, the ones on the poorer side have to fear for their existence each day, because the fees are so high.
What Evon suggests, is some kind of lever: The more force, you can exert, the greater its effect. Basically, people with more money to spare will get more use out of it.
On the other hand, what Ellen brought forth, actually benefits us all AND the people of tyria. Also, the long term prospects of what Evon suggested, are rather dim. There might be some chance, someone gets lucky and turns from a no-one to having 1000+gold with a single flip of a key, but the effects will mostly benefit the ones, who don’t need help. In the end, nothing will change, while Ellen’s suggestion has the potential to change things.
While many back in Rata Sum will disagree, with what I say, I will still say it:
I honestly believe, other races are capable of thinking ahead, too.
What will come after we got our keys?
Will the poor ones be left in the gutter, while the rich ones amass even more fortunes?
We truly know, what we will have to expect here. We have to think about Tyria, not about our pockets.
My vote will go to Ellen Kiel.
-Peacemaker Napp
I love that skill.
