Chieftain Tcenda's Missive to the Hingardi
In the middling days of the second millennium, the Hingard Confœderation came to be led by a man named Tcenda, a reformist who saw his people's multigenerational war upon the Midlanders as pointless and counterproductive.
Reformists in the Hingard rank and file were not unheard of, but usually dared not speak out lest they incur the wrath of their battle-hardened brothers. That one should rise to the rank of chieftain was unexpected in both Hingard lands and in the Midlands.
Historical Details
Background
Tcenda ruled through force as did all of his predecessors, but privately sought ways in which he might come to peace with the lower-ranking soldiery and with the Midlander kingdoms. One such action he took was the issuing of an open letter to the rank and file soldiers of the Hingardi, imploring them to see their war as destructive to the home they sought to reclaim, and to not make war upon their 'cousins' who now lived there, but to cast out the bloodthirsty interlopers who would see them destroy themselves.
Public Reaction
To call Tcenda's missive poorly received would be a gross understatement. Though reformists such as himself were indeed a significant proportion of the soldiery, they were by and large too timid in the face of the overwhelming warrior culture of the Hingardi.
Tcenda was thereafter seen as little more than a sellout and traitor, and he ruled for several more years as a figurehead before his assassination at the hands of a bodyguard in 1719 AT.
Reactions of Midlander dignitaries were more mixed. On one hand, the Hingardi were responsible for untold destruction, and the ceasing of their constant warfare was a welcome prospect; however, most simply disregarded the missive amongst the notion that a Hingard leader would be, to quote a scholar of the Library of Hindomas, "such a walking, talking abject failure of courtly intrigue as to politely ask the warrior class to stop fighting."
Legacy
Tcenda's missive has largely been forgotten by both Hingardi and Midlander alike. Copies survive in the Library of Hindomas, and the occasional scholarly commentary is not unheard of, but the story of the missive is essentially a footnote in Midlander historiography.
Type
Manuscript, Historical
Medium
Papyrus
Authoring Date
1716 AT
Location
Signatories (Organizations)
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