Message has been brought to Magnaura from Efstathios Laskaris.

"Senators,

The sacking of Alexandria by the hands of Methodios Tagaris is disgraceful. To use Kosmas Mavrozomis' death as an excuse to kill those people and take their properties and money to himself is something we can not tolerate. This is nothing but a simple robbery. From now on all those locals will remember Mavrozomis' name as the reason why so many people lost their lives. His name is now tainted. This just shows that Tagaris don't know how to honor men like Kosmas and Markianos. But I am different. I renamed Caesarea to Markianopol to honor the man who fall valiantly fighting for defense of the Empire. This way his name will always be remembered.
May God look over us and give us strength to recreate Roman Empire!

Efstathios Laskaris"