When War Calls

When War Calls...
''War only ends when people finally refuse to fight...so why do people continue to let their greed turn to violence? Why must we continue to spill blood of those who are meant to live long, happy lives; just because a dictator wants to prove that he is the 'ultimate power'. I'm fucking tired of it all. ''Samarra Inari thinks to herself as she looks over the papers in her hands the confirm the claims brought forth by the leader of Aeternum in the Toveri Alliance meeting they just held a few days ago. Many a word comes to mind when she thinks of this man and his actions, a few being: arrogant, officious, an interloper, a morosoph, an ultracrepidarian, and a narcissistic charlatan. She would find the mental diction exercise laughable and amusing if not for the seriousness of the situation at hand.

Through the help of Ishgar's special forces, the Magic Council has retrieved a great deal of information on the continent that has effectively broken the non-aggression pact between their two lands by coming to their meeting for a formal declaration of war should they refuse his demands. Samarra sits with the two other leaders of the nations largest alliance, Alice Vroman and Valencia Morningheart, as well as the guild masters of what she hopes to be the leading force in their potential defense, Sterling Kasumi and Silver Kasumi. They have decided to meet at the guild of Crashing Wave near Hargeon due to it's centrality between the three leader's guilds to discuss their course of action.

Samarra puts down the papers in her hands and clears her throat a bit, "Well the Magic Council has gotten back to me, and I'm afraid it's not the best news... The claims of Kladenets are true in the fact that he has a standing military of twenty million mages prepared to invade our country in order to get his key for 'Project Ether'; the recreation of the One Magic to give himself unimaginable power and control over the world. Regardless of the validity of this project I do believe it is not something we should take lightly. A bigger problem has arose in that now Aeternum's forces have blocked off all possible trade routes into Ishgar, effectively cutting off our continent of resources from outside lands..." She says with a heavy sigh. "The problem is that he will effectively starve out our people in order to see his project through to success. Not to mention that if we refuse to take action he will send his soldiers here to attempt cripple our population as many cities are still trying to recover from the last series of battles with Alverez."

Samarra rubs her temples in frustration at the troublesome greed that they are faced with, but is confident that the great minds around her will be able to come up with an effective plan in order to minimize the byproducts of this war that Aeternum is hungry for. "I want to hear what you all feel we should do in regards to safety of our people. This war seems inevitable, as Aeternum's leader is not one for reason or negotiations, seeing as how he himself called for war to show off his 'own strength'," She says sarcastically, "and so I feel the first thing we need to decide is where the front of this battle will take place. Then we can move on to more strategical discussion."