Proclamation of Protection for Spirit Loas

The main purpose of this edict is propaganda. The Kingdom of Swynfaredia and the Kingdom of Fumaya are at war.   Agents loyal to King Henryk exposed that the Swynfaredian mid-tier noble house, House Selwyth , was magical experiments on captured spirit loas in order to attempt to create super soldiers. Twenty-three spirit loas were rescued.   The king's advisors suggested that if the king's messengers simply told the story of what happened, few people would believe it and it would get hand-waved away as a baseless lie crafted for propaganda. Instead the king of telling people outright what happened, the king is implying what the Swynfaredians did. By leaving a trail of bread crumbs for the curious to follow, the story of what happened will penetrate farther and deeper than it would otherwise. Ideally, this will cause whispers to trickle into Swynfaredia too.   The idea is to show that Fumayans are just, and Swynfaredians are cruel.     The secondary purpose is to show support to spirit loas. Of the twenty-three rescued spirit loas, twenty-two are Swynfaredian by birth and many of them now wish to defect to Fumaya, and King Henryk wants to encourage this. Spirit loas are useful allies in many fields, and King Henryk and his retainers certainly wouldn't mind more spirit loas as spies or soldiers. A lot of spirit loas are in the proverbial closet, so Henryk and his advisor would not mind if more Fumayan spirit loas identified themselves and openly offered their talents to benefit the Crown.     Third, if they convince spirit loas remaining in Swynfaredian "your government won't protect you!" Hopefully, this will entice more Swynfaredian spirit loas to defect to the other side, or at the very least, choose to sit out the war.

The head priest or priestess of all nine priesthoods within Fumaya's Nonagon signed a Writ of the Nonagon backing the king's decree.   Since the Nonagon for their inter-faction feuds, It is very rare for a Writ of the Nonagon to have all nine signatories in agreement, even on something that is seemingly non-controversial. Essentially all nine Fumayan religious factions are declaring "we support the king's effort against Swynfaredia, and we are willing to put aside our differences to do it."   This certainly makes the king look good, and it causes more people to discuss the edict which will spread the propaganda message even more.   Normally the Children and the Testers would not be bothered by unethical magical testing on captured mortals, and they don't normally bother signing Writs of the Nonagon. There are extenuating circumstances that led to this royal edict getting a rare unanimous approval from Fumaya's Nonagon.