The Assassination of Cyrus Glenwill - Revision history

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 ''As to why Thrius elected to assist Balathar, little comes down to us.  The historians of the baronial court are content to describe, with obsequious pens, how the will of lord Balathar had grown to dominate Thrius' mind.  They admit the dwarf's genius and the depths of his wisdom, but accuse him of an effete softness of character which was most unbecoming for his race, but common with such a cerebral and contemplative intellect.  Biventis, taking from the Virgilian oral histories, adopts a different Thrius, and sees in the dwarf a grander vision.  Overawed by the fiery spells with which Thrius would later destroy armies, Virigl's fanatics respected Thrius nearly as much as their own demi-god.  The scope of his mind, they said, could span centuries, and if he was involved with the fall of Cyrus, then surely it was for the greater Balance of Dantareth, and the secret history which the sword of Balathar would soon effect.  Biventis suggests the possibility of Thrius the Kingmaker, whose oracular eye sees the weakness of Cyrus' demagogic and unassertive rule, beside the absolutism and vigorous command lord Balathar would exercise.  Perhaps even, Biventis speculates, the pagan dwarf, despite his halo of preternatural wisdom, was still infected with the vulgar cupidity of his race, and wished revenge on Cyrus for the dispersing of a treasure a portion of which belonged to Thrius himself.''
-''I can say with no certainty as to why Thrius became involved in the assassination.  Certainly it was not his idea, and he merely became aparty to Balathar's plot.  I do note however that the dwarven skalds admit to the Grand Master Forger's regret, and that regret is most often the sentiment of the accomplice, whereas a secret pride and indignance are those passions belonging to the master of a scheme.  Perhaps Thrius would only lament that he did not share more evenly in the spoils of power Balathar would soon enjoy, and may have masked resentment with specious regret when he exposed through song the betrayal and murder of an erstwhile co-conspirator.  Yet I am still left with speculation, and whatever his motives, I comment only that they were cruel and traitorous, that his personal absence was the policy of a moral coward, and that the truth of the matter must remain unknown until an historian dares approach the priestly throne of Thrius for a candid and likely incendiary interview.'' [for a Thrius' own discussion of the assassination, see [[Complicity of Thrius in the Assassination of Cyrus]]]
+''I can say with no certainty as to why Thrius became involved in the assassination.  Certainly it was not his idea, and he merely became aparty to Balathar's plot.  I do note however that the dwarven skalds admit to the Grand Master Forger's regret, and that regret is most often the sentiment of the accomplice, whereas a secret pride and indignance are those passions belonging to the master of a scheme.  Perhaps Thrius would only lament that he did not share more evenly in the spoils of power Balathar would soon enjoy, and may have masked resentment with specious regret when he exposed through song the betrayal and murder of an erstwhile co-conspirator.  Yet I am still left with speculation, and whatever his motives, I comment only that they were cruel and traitorous, that his personal absence was the policy of a moral coward, and that the truth of the matter must remain unknown until an historian dares approach the priestly throne of Thrius for a candid and likely incendiary interview.'' [for Thrius' own discussion of the assassination, see [[Complicity of Thrius in the Assassination of Cyrus]]]
 ''Regardless of dwarven complicity, Balathar remains the primary author.  In those final days, it chills the soul to relate how Balathar took Cyrus on a tour of the new constructions being raised on the shattered acropolis, a guileful trick designed to assuage the suspicions of the governor.  Surely Cyrus must have taken the gesture as intended to help mend the breach between himself and his ambitious minister, and if not he kept his distrust secret.  I speculate however that this tour engendered a spirit of budding trust in lord Cyrus, making him feel that the partnership of Balathar and Cyrus was coming into view, that the Gondolas might be united by their dual leadership, and that a bright future awaited the young princes of a new republic and principate.  But this was all farce.  The friendship and gestures of respect and trust were but illusions to instill false confidence, and the tour was but a tool to lure Cyrus to his death in Balathar's private dungeon.''

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 '''''Gibonius'''''
-Amanthane Gibow, a monk of the Order of the Lake, and Degrada native.  As a boy, he was wrapped up in the Cerulian domination of that town in the early 880s.  While still a youth, he eventually became an orderly of Major General Magistotem, and had participated in the War of Three Barons (the Dantarethian invasion of Aber-Zlin) and in the War of Siblings.  Re-discovered by the serendipity of Alexander Bolo, he was awarded a profitable sinecure by the arch-crusader, and was subsequently commissioned to write a history of Dantareth.  Published in five volumes in the early 10th century, his ''History of Dantareth'' is considered a masterwork detailing the wars of Dantareth since its founding as a barony until modern times.
+[[File:Ugolino-martelli.jpg!Blog.jpg|thumb|300px|A portrait of Brother Amanthane after his publication of the second volume of his ''History of Dantareth'' in 913.]]
 ==Primary Sources:  Accounts of the Accused==

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 ''As to why Thrius elected to assist Balathar, little comes down to us.  The historians of the baronial court are content to describe, with obsequious pens, how the will of lord Balathar had grown to dominate Thrius' mind.  They admit the dwarf's genius and the depths of his wisdom, but accuse him of an effete softness of character which was most unbecoming for his race, but common with such a cerebral and contemplative intellect.  Biventis, taking from the Virgilian oral histories, adopts a different Thrius, and sees in the dwarf a grander vision.  Overawed by the fiery spells with which Thrius would later destroy armies, Virigl's fanatics respected Thrius nearly as much as their own demi-god.  The scope of his mind, they said, could span centuries, and if he was involved with the fall of Cyrus, then surely it was for the greater Balance of Dantareth, and the secret history which the sword of Balathar would soon effect.  Biventis suggests the possibility of Thrius the Kingmaker, whose oracular eye sees the weakness of Cyrus' demagogic and unassertive rule, beside the absolutism and vigorous command lord Balathar would exercise.  Perhaps even, Biventis speculates, the pagan dwarf, despite his halo of preternatural wisdom, was still infected with the vulgar cupidity of his race, and wished revenge on Cyrus for the dispersing of a treasure a portion of which belonged to Thrius himself.''
-''I can say with no certainty as to why Thrius became involved in the assassination.  Certainly it was not his idea, and he merely became aparty to Balathar's plot.  I do note however that the dwarven skalds admit to the Grand Master Forger's regret, and that regret is most often the sentiment of the accomplice, whereas a secret pride and indignance are those passions belonging to the master of a scheme.  Perhaps Thrius would only lament that he did not share more evenly in the spoils of power Balathar would soon enjoy, and may have masked resentment with specious regret when he exposed through song the betrayal and murder of an erstwhile co-conspirator.  Yet I am still left with speculation, and whatever his motives, I comment only that they were cruel and traitorous, that his personal absence was the policy of a moral coward, and that the truth of the matter must remain unknown until an historian dares approach the priestly throne of Thrius for a candid and likely incendiary interview.'' [see [[Complicity of Thrius in the Assassination of Cyrus]]]
+''I can say with no certainty as to why Thrius became involved in the assassination.  Certainly it was not his idea, and he merely became aparty to Balathar's plot.  I do note however that the dwarven skalds admit to the Grand Master Forger's regret, and that regret is most often the sentiment of the accomplice, whereas a secret pride and indignance are those passions belonging to the master of a scheme.  Perhaps Thrius would only lament that he did not share more evenly in the spoils of power Balathar would soon enjoy, and may have masked resentment with specious regret when he exposed through song the betrayal and murder of an erstwhile co-conspirator.  Yet I am still left with speculation, and whatever his motives, I comment only that they were cruel and traitorous, that his personal absence was the policy of a moral coward, and that the truth of the matter must remain unknown until an historian dares approach the priestly throne of Thrius for a candid and likely incendiary interview.'' [for a Thrius' own discussion of the assassination, see [[Complicity of Thrius in the Assassination of Cyrus]]]
 ''Regardless of dwarven complicity, Balathar remains the primary author.  In those final days, it chills the soul to relate how Balathar took Cyrus on a tour of the new constructions being raised on the shattered acropolis, a guileful trick designed to assuage the suspicions of the governor.  Surely Cyrus must have taken the gesture as intended to help mend the breach between himself and his ambitious minister, and if not he kept his distrust secret.  I speculate however that this tour engendered a spirit of budding trust in lord Cyrus, making him feel that the partnership of Balathar and Cyrus was coming into view, that the Gondolas might be united by their dual leadership, and that a bright future awaited the young princes of a new republic and principate.  But this was all farce.  The friendship and gestures of respect and trust were but illusions to instill false confidence, and the tour was but a tool to lure Cyrus to his death in Balathar's private dungeon.''
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 ''In close of this chapter, I observe the irony that in his very first mission with the Gondolas, Balathar had adventured with Virgil to raise Cyrus by the hand of St. Bartholomew.  Balathar may have been better served by leaving the body to rot, but a certain logic may argue that Cyrus' life had always been Balathar's to take.''</blockquote>
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+-from the Third Volume of the ''History of Dantarth'' by Gibonius, Monk of the Order of the Lake
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 '''''According to Virgil'''''

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 ''In close of this chapter, I observe the irony that in his very first mission with the Gondolas, Balathar had adventured with Virgil to raise Cyrus by the hand of St. Bartholomew.  Balathar may have been better served by leaving the body to rot, but a certain logic may argue that Cyrus' life had always been Balathar's to take.''</blockquote>
-           -from the Third Volume of the ''History of Dantarth'' by Gibonius of St. Bartst's
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 [[Complicity of Thrius in the Assassination of Cyrus]]
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