Letter On the Princess Wars

It has become popular of late to speak of The [First Princess of Vespana] as a tyrant, thief, and other petty names I shall not recollect. Especially vicious are the Modernist-Rewriter factions, who claim that The First might have been more than one person; how else would one account for her drastic change of behavior between theaters of war?

Five hundred years have passed since the Princess Wars. Many of the accounts from then are buried under cataclysm after cataclysm, such that Vespana's founding story is bound up in prophecy, myth and drama.

If the Restorationists had their way, we would only learn of history solely from the [Founding Family]'s records. I find it difficult to approach Vespana's history from that angle; the Restorationists would never take the [Sorceress and the Sunset] as an actual source, yet it is directly authored by a key member of the Founding Families.

I believe there are many little truths hidden in the romances of the Princess Wars, so I look to the plays, drama and literature of the [Olden Era] for things that might have been missed in the Founder's records. Secrets fear the light, and truth fears suffocation. Sometimes truth is encoded in the mundane to prevent oneself from forgetting.

After recent events, I delved into the histories of the New Continent and have come to a startling conclusion:

(((Someone))) is re-enacting the events of the Princess Wars in [Current Year].

(((They))) hope to repeat history and restore an empire long lost to time.

As I write, the Domains are in turmoil, the [Seventeenth] having passed on her seat to the [Eighteenth]. Yet, not all factions will accept a sorceress on Vespana's throne; least of all a [Hexenhall] sorceress, Starlight family blood running through her veins or not. Under the surface, plots are set into motion. Plots exceedingly similar to the ones set upon The First before the [Siege of Shirohime Castle].

This account of the Princess Wars are the crystallization of the truths I have uncovered treading through Vespana's histories. I can only hope I have taught my disciples well and they find some use out of these accounts.

Whoever you may be, if the crises of [Sucesión] have not receded when you read this; please, find your own truth, then push back the tides of darkness by your own hand.

A.P

New Coimbra, Autumn of the Second Year.