As the different tribes represented at the thengoz, a thinly built man stepped forward. He was Rékiwulfáz, firstborn of Ansuhárjáz, and sent to the thengoz on the behalf of his father. He spoke with a voice, who gave his thin and seemly fragile body great strength:
"I am Rékiwulfáz, son of Ansuhárjáz. I speak for my father, for he is busy with the business of his domains, that of the Belgae. He had, however, important news that he would like to share with the thengoz."
"A few months ago, we were attacked. From the sea came painted men, who spoke with tongues that were strange, yet familiar. The men were painted with a blue colour and had large torques of gold around their necks. They raided several villages of the Belgae before we could send out an host to throw these men into the sea. The belgae spoke of these men as members of a tribe that once had left Belgae for the islands in the west, and they called the tribe Casse."
"Ansuhárjáz pondered long on what to do against these strange men, but then he heard about the shipbuilders in Armoriae. In the west, there lives a tribe of the celtae who send large ships oversea to trade with the casse. With these ships, my father could both establish diplomatic relations with the Casse, or if diplomacy fails, invade their silands."
"He was greatly dissapointed however, because when he sent his army the shipyards had been destroyed and in Darioritum, the largest city of all Armoriae, the shipbuilders had fled into Aedui lands. The new lands however gave us a great position from where to launch our invasion of Galla. We can now both pour south from our belgae settlements and attack west from Vindelicoppidos, when the city falls.
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