The Chronicles, Vol.28

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| Vol. 28            + +   THE CHRONICLES   + +          Collector's |
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| A GROWING SOURCE, [Spring 1949]                                    |
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| |    | ith the Whisperer gaining great traction in the East for    |
| |    | valued readers in Miruvhor, the Herald library has decided  |
| | /\ | to find columnists for the West too.  If all goes to plan,  |
| |/  \| we hope to expand our editorial staff in the coming months  |
|        to include at least one member of the Church.  Following    |
| the One God has proven a very popular trend in the 1900s, and the  |
| Order of the Crusades has seen more recruits now at one time than  |
| it likely has in many hundreds of years.  While Xanthis Ignifirum  |
| has not agreed to write a new column called "The Choir" for us     |
| yet, I will need her valuable religious training to instruct me on |
| how best to muse Val Miran's people and keep them updated in just  |
| the ways they wish.                                                |
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| Letters have been flowing in to the Library from all over the      |
| world seeking propagation or notice.  Every single day, our        |
| Miruvhor Whisperer branch is piled high with hate mail and vitriol |
| from upset readers who are blind to the charm and independence of  |
| Easterly folk, and Heralds will continue to support our Whisperer  |
| division, overseen by Owl Astare, in spite of this.  We know very  |
| well that the people sometimes need a small reprieve from being    |
| policed, at least in their own fantasies, and a hint of rebellion  |
| is like a nice night of drunken revelry.  All the power to them!   |
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| At the end of the day, though, we remember who pays for the walls, |
| who dies defending against raids, who cracks down on the bank fees |
| for natives, who retires conscripts to help local families find    |
| more work, who builds roads, who protects the docks from pirates,  |
| who counts the hairs on each citizen's head, even the anarchist's! |
| The list goes on.  My favorite in the list of course is that they  |
| help keep the Academy and the local Library remain secure.         |
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| That being said, we need more content.  Always!  We need content   |
| to fill the Miruvhor Whisperer to the brim with brine and stiff    |
| conceit, as well as content to launch a new Church-inspired        |
| editorial for those dear readers out West.  Surely that road to    |
| Ofcol is almost done being made, right?  They want to know as well |
| as I do!  If you have tales, odes, or a good scoop, look for the   |
| Owls -- they'll bring your name to me, and your names are the most |
| important things in the news.                                      |
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