I, High Magus of the Guild of Mages, send greetings to my peer the King of Silverthorne on this day, 1st of spring in the year one thousand and twelve. Your Majesty, With all due respect, the guild finds the actions of your cavaliers to be an outrage against all sensibility. My guild merely acted upon your own given word that problems arising from the harboring of outlaw magicians by the traitorous acts of the House of Toevass must be dealt with in all expediency. Should an unfortunate few have taken these actions too far is of little concern to men such as ourselves. Surely you must see reason and recall your cavaliers from the field before matters proceed apace beyond any hope of the intervention of reasonable men.

I give your Majesty this warning, heed it well: The realm of Silverthorne shall no longer dictate action to the Guild of Mages. We hereby inform your majesty that due to the recent actions of the throne, we remove ourselves as subjects from the King’s Law. Any further encroachment upon our activities by servants to the King shall be regarded as acts of war and be met with ultimate and final force.

Do not seek to disobey us or ignore this warning, for to do so will unleash a river of blood in your Kingdom as you have never seen.