Aetherius,

I will keep my thoughts brief for the moment.

If anyone in future so much as -whispers- that I can be "told" by
anyone, mortal or otherwise, to slay another mortal, I will demonstrate
to them the error of their ways. This demonstration will take forms most
enjoyable to me, and most painful to them.

Now that that's out of the way, I want to make it perfectly clear that
Sietta has never once told me to or asked me to slay someone. As a
matter of fact, she has dissuaded me from my... darker... intentions
more times than I can count. Divine omniscience would of course bear me
out on this point - I take orders for killings from no one but myself.

If someone hurts Sietta, insults her, or otherwise chooses to attack her
in any form, whether physical, verbal, or through propaganda and lies as
has happened in the past, and I slay them, as has happened in the
past... it will not -ever- mean that I act at her behest. And please do
be aware, I -do- take it as a very personal affront that this is said.
If I kill you, I'm killing you because I decide to kill you. No more
filth and folly about me being under the orders of another. I bow to no
mortal, and Sietta's life and business are distinct from mine. If
someone insinuates this sign of weakness and pandering to the will of
another in future, they will receive a swift and thorough re-education.

Feel free to direct any and all boastings, hate, spite, anger,
frustration, and other such pleasant emotions to myself. I want everyone
to know, particularly my old and wily friend Alakshmi, that I trust you
all. I trust you deeply, from the bottom of my blackened heart. I trust
you even at a distance...

As far as my Daegger will hunt.

May hubris and hot air be ever shown for what they are, and would the
real liars please step forward?

In a Merry and Mad mood,
-Valarauko, Lord of the Damned-

Penned by my hand on the 12th of Naturalis, in the year 419 AD.