Council Chambers
As Valdemar, Alcazar and Merilonna, the other kindred quieted down and took their seats. In clockwise position starting with Valdemar were; Alcazar, Enrich, Merilonna, Liutpold, Darkon, Rägnär and finally Walter.
“Now as always I would like everyone to remember that this chamber is Elysium and that no violence will be tolerated. I am master of these grounds and am the only one who shall bring wrath should that rule or any of the other holy commands be broken,” Valdemar began before turning sitting down.
Alcazar stood and looked around. “Right, so the first order of business is the complaints of house Dravidian about the tyranny of House Pedragon in their territories. So I shall let Merilonna speak first,” Alcazar said before resuming his seat.
“Why do we even come to these meetings, It’s never more than ‘so and so is oppressing my kine’ complaints,” Rägnär whispered to Darkon.
Merilonna rose and addressed the council, “For too long the English have oppressed the French people under our protection. We demand that House Pedragon and their mortal allies remove the claims on the Throne of France. These wars have gone on long enough and our people, well the French peoples wish to unify under their own crown. We implore this council to a vote and demand Pedragon’s compliance.”
Merilonna sat back down as Walter grinned and got out of his chair. He began slowly walking around the table looking from kindred to kindred meeting their gaze with his. “It is preposterous to think that we could get our mortal allies to forego their claims in France. We have tried many times with urging from many of you and I say it simply has done no good. We have much control over mortal affairs but we must abide by the holy commands, which prevent us from revealing our true nature,” He began.
Merilonna rolled her eyes in exasperation as Walter continued; “Now if the council would like to change one of the holy commands then by all means we will force the withdrawal of English claims on French soil. I think perhaps as Valdemar can tell you we have larger concerns at the moment that need to be addressed in Germania.”
Valdemar sighed as Walter took his seat again. “Any comments of the claims of House Dravidian,” He asked expecting to hear few.
“While we agree with the Dravidians we see not choice but to let the mortals fight it amongst themselves. We well send aid to their fight against the English but expecting Pedragon to exert the amount of influence necessary to get the English to go home is a rather large order,” Liutpold said as he was trying to remove a jewel from his armrest.
“I agree with my comrade from Germania we in Scandinavia have many concerns of our own right now with lupines growing in strength and numbers everyday. We have heard reports that they may be traveling to English soil soon and that will cause enough concern. We do not wish to see a Great House fall due to silly claims over who rightfully should have lands,” Rägnär announced.
Enrich finished filling his nails and replied, “While we also agree with the Dravidian proposal we too have much to concern ourselves with in Iberia and cannot in the present see any good coming from such an undertaking. We should focus on fighting the vile pawns of House Scorpius, House Serpentis and the Cursed Armies of House Umbra. If we can but get some small help we can solidify our people and assist other countries and kindred in repelling there enemies.”
Valdemar let the other kindred share their views before calling a vote. Only two kindred voted to have House Pedragon withdraw the English forces, Merilonna and Darkon who probably voted simply to piss off Walter.
Valdemar stood and announced, “We’ll take a small break and reconvene in a few moments. We have something really important to discuss and I don’t want anybody’s judgment clouded.”
Liutpold walked over to Valdemar and the pair exited the room. Merilonna was talking with Enrich when she briefly thought she saw something slip out of the room after the duo.
