The Sands of Time - MoT diplomacy thread

[Mithridate]

Ibn-Battutah rises to address the Kievan representative.

We are disappointed, if not surprised, at your cowardly attack on our holdings in northern Anatolia. Your pretext is risible - it was clear from your military and naval buildup and your lack of response to our diplomacy that you were planning to attack us and would seize on any flimsy opportunity to do so.

It matters not, inshallah the new Caliph Ja'afar will lead the armies of Islam to our ultimate victory. That is, unless you see sense - the door is still open for peace should you withdraw from our lands immediately and engage in talks regarding a new treaty.

Turning once again to face the fatmid

Your accusations are laughable, only fools and weaklings fears what is untrue, we are neither. As to your "offer"...

Spitting a phlegm on some velvets hanging from the walls

That should match the blood on your floor, its meaning equally clear. We are simple perhaps brutal men, but men of honor nonetheless... Our word is iron.