"May Kenabres Be Damned!"

Note · 55 gp · Weight 2

Anonymous pamphlet "I spit on the streets of Kenabres. I spit on its granite walls and its stained glass windows. If tomorrow the ground trembles, splits apart, and devours this cursed city, I will not shed one tear. No one here, not a single soul, deserves any compassion. Everyone who lives in this city is a criminal! If there were any justice in this world, every one of them would be hanging from the gallows, Prelate Hulrun and Queen Galfrey chief among them! Ask anyone on the streets what they know of mongrels. The answer will be dumb silence, or the lowered eyes of a scoundrel who knows their crimes but doesn't want to think about it. 'Mongrels!' A disgusting nickname, which the residents of the city have given to the brave crusader heroes who defeated the forces of evil, but paid for it with their health. Covered with scabs and tumors, bloated and gnarled, they were no longer beautiful enough to be tolerated by the very people they'd saved. As a reward for their heroism, the city dwellers exiled them to the sewers and damp caves beneath the city! The author of these words went down there and spoke with them — and I'll have you know that the ugliest of them is more noble than all the paladins of Mendev, not to mention that head-chopping Prelate and his murderous Queen! And if any pretend that today's city dwellers aren't responsible for the crime of their grandfathers, then I will spit in their face, for the grandchildren of the exiled are still down there, crawling in the mud and eating garbage. And everyone who knows about this and does nothing, and everyone who should know but prefers blissful ignorance — I say they're all guilty and they repeat the same crime every day! And as long as this doesn't change, any citizen who desires to fight a demon should take a knife and stab themselves in the stomach. For your city has already rotted, and you are no better than the demons! And if anyone would repent and right this terrible wrong, they should turn their weapons on the prudish paladins who preach good but defend an order that flies in the face of justice! DOWN WITH THE PALADINS! DOWN WITH PRELATE HULRUN! DOWN WITH QUEEN GALFREY!"