18th Ashan, 718
Dear Nir'wei
Oh, my friend it is good to hear from you. I am so glad that you are safe and sound in Rynmere. How strange, I can picture you there - us there. It seems like a hundred lifetimes ago, Nir'wei, yet it feels like just last trial, too. That plot of land is where our dreams began, do you remember? We can do this, you told me, and I believed you. And now, we are. Us, and we can make this place great. Remember, the faction funds are there if you need them, that's what they are there for.
But that is the simple part of this. The rest is more complicated, of course.
However, one part of it is simple and straightforward. Nir'wei, you are one of the bravest people I have ever met - I admire your courage so much. When faced with a death sentence, you allowed hope to happen. You have faced some of the most painful, horrific symptoms stoically - and I know you well enough to know that you're shaking your head now, saying that no, you were upset and worried and terrified. I treat patients on a trial by trial basis and believe me when I tell you - you came
nowhere near the hysterics you think you had and I know I did not see.
I've received other correspondence about what's happening in Rynmere, and I'm torn, Nir'wei. On the one hand, I do not doubt it. Magic is wrong. It is fundamentally unnatural and it corrupts the individual literally in their soul. Whilst some magic is undoubtedly able to be used for good - but also there area a number of schools of magic which are simple and pure evil. Necromancy. Pact and Aberration. If it were down to me, Nir'wei, then magic would be banned, plain and simple.
However, burning people alive? That is too far, it is too much. Also, I would question who they are burning. A necromancer who has desecrated corpses and so on is one thing - but is there any hope of rehabilitation, of removal of this magic? What if someone wants to change? I have always had a lot of respect for the Moseke Knights and I think that maybe, until we know more about this apparently bloodthirsty killing of mages, we need to be careful of that Order of the Mantis. But, the Knights would be lucky to have you and would allow you to find out what is actually happening.
Be careful and safe, Nir'wei. I'm always here to talk if you want to.
All my love
Faith.