ORDERS OF THE REGIONAL COMMANDER OF ALVALD REINER KUNZE FROM THE 28TH PASER YEAR 19.
In the Name of the Republic of Guntreland, Free, Natural, and Founded upon Virtue
It is hereby declared that the magnificent and historic event of the Liberation of Alwald bore a blemish which placed upon the immaculate countenance of Republican Virtue the mask of barbarity. Four castles upon the soil of our island were put to flame: of these, two were reduced to their very foundations, while two others suffered grievous damage. Other noble houses sustained lesser wounds. These lamentable acts occurred immediately upon the establishment of our forces’ just dominion over the island, perpetrated by a multitude of citizens, misled by reckless or malicious agitators.
By the ruin of these castles, our tyrannical foes across the world shall dare present the Republicans to their peoples not as the liberators of Humanity but as destroyers of fair and solemn edifices — proud towers with spired roofs, and chambers richly adorned.
Republicans, who are not merely men stirred by passions but Citizens governed by Reason, must ever remember that their true foes are not stones and ramparts but men of corrupt spirit and wicked purpose; and that the same structures which stand for vice when devoted to vice, may stand for virtue when placed in the service of Virtue — just as the bayonet is vile in royalist hands, yet most noble in the hands of the Republic. Is it not a greater triumph over royalism that their castles should henceforth serve the manifold needs of Republican Citizens — for the care of the sick, the instruction of youth, the administration of the people’s affairs, the sheltering of those whose homes the war has claimed — thus transforming fortresses of royalism into bastions of Republicanism, than that they be laid waste in barbarous flames?
We summon all Citizens to find this answer within their own Reason, and those who find it not we remind of the letter of the law, which is written Reason itself — of the decrees of the National Assembly and the statutes which bind those who lay waste to the towns and villages of the Republic and violate its sacred ordinances.
Alwaldstadt, the 28th day of Paser, Year Nineteen
Honor the Constitution, Citizens!
Reiner Kunze
Regional Commander
