The State of Forest

[GryffonDurime]

Members of Forest, here me. When I was offered the mantle of leadership, I made it clear to Chris, and tried to impress this upon the other leaders of Forest, that I would be gone for only six weeks. Six weeks for a school function as opposed to the months of slumber during Chris' reign.

Six weeks, and then I would devote myself to my kingdom. Surely that was not much to ask? In my absence, I tried to ensure that Becan and Lasaria had the powers to rule while I was gone. Becan betrayed me, betrayed all of Forest. He cunningly mannuevered his pawn, Ricky Steele, into futher incriminating Lasaria falsely. It is by council of my great friends Grirahan, Zurkiba, and Chris that I discovered Becan's true motive: he had blackmailed the human citizens of Forest, made a petition against me, and sought to claim the Kingdom for his own.

This I can not tolerate. Becan is now Blacklisted from the Empire of the Forest. All those who stood against me, be it of their own free will or by Becan's venemous trickery, consider this amnesty- I hold nothing against you. The price I ask for leadership is two more weeks.

Decide for yourselves, true inheritors of the Forest, what do you wish for? A King who has come to offer forgiveness and ask for your cooperation, or one who holds a threat above your head to force your hand in betrayl most foul?

Signed,
Gryffon Anthony Durime,
Aran of the Forest