Velwythe

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I have searched my family’s records quite thoroughly, spending nights in my library and allowing my assistants to spend weeks doing the same. And now it has all paid off, it has all paid off. But it is not what I expected to find, not at all. There is something to this, but I am still disbelieving, skeptical. There have been many rumors reaching these walls and circulating throughout the entire province that the mountains on the south of the Sound are dangerous. Dangerous! What do they think is up there, monsters and creatures? I marveled at the ingenuity and stupidity of my people. Now I marvel at what might, but certainly must not be.

These mountains are wild and dangerous to a degree. They are full of wild animals, full of them. But there have always been animals in those peaks and valleys and they have never posed any significant threat to anyone but the ignorant and idiotic. But how these people could make so much of just a few animals is beyond me, is quite hard to understand.

Nevertheless this problem is not new, and was never resolved before. We found that approximately 500 years ago the people of this kingdom and all surrounding areas were complaining of an unknown threat. Don’t these people know animals when they see them, don’t they know what a bear looks like? How could they be so naive? Despite the fact that the problem seemed to vanish on its own 500 years ago, it is not so easy to keep the people quiet now as it was then, not easy at all. The idiotic press and news organizations will spread word of anything wrong, or even that I have not investigated a potential problem quicker than I can even write in my journal. This is the last thing that I want or need to take care of, something so minor and insignificant. But not doing anything, it is certainly more trouble to deal with the idiotic, irate people of my kingdom, certainly more trouble.

I have no idea what they want me to uncover, discover. I will send a team of my knights to explore the southern canyons of the Morrid range nevertheless. Hopefully when they return with news of only wild animals, the people will at last be able to stop their moaning, their whining. Why they have decided to begin complaining about bears now is also beyond my comprehension. My fathers have said that people were complaining of being driven out of their homes by humanoid creatures. Again I must question whether even the people of my fathers’ time were so ignorant as to forget that bears are capable of standing upright. But all is well. I am taking the easiest route out of this and can’t lament solving a problem simply. My only concern is in figuring how long my knights must tarry in the frightening woods before considering their fruitless search sufficient, adequate.