The Magnaura

[Zim]

Andreas listens silently through the last speech, chuckling slightly towards the end.

I think you may have forgotten one other way in which such an accusation against me may be unfair, that being the fact that what precipitated the beginning of the deficit was the loss of two of our best cities under the watch of a man who had secede against the Empire... At any rate I am greatly shamed we have fallen into debt in my term, whatever the extenuating circumstances. My only feeble defense is that the threat of Erotikos required increased military spending. While I have recently cut costs enough that only the capture of Damascus is needed to balance the budget, it will still be long before Imperial funding is back in the black. I applaud Ammonathas Kalameteros for moving on Zagreb, the recapture of which will put us on the right track again financially.

I am not sure what to call a man who committed treason but a traitor. However, given the seriousness of the matter at hand, the rebellion by those crazed fools Erotikos and Kousinos, I will refrain from doing so for the time being. Instead I join Tagaris in calling for all loyal Romans to declare war against the traitors marching on our capital. The fate of the Empire is at stake, and we cannot let a madman and usurper steal the throne.