A man comes rushing into the room. He bears the white two-headed eagle on his blue cape. Looking around, he finds the ambassador slumbering in the corner. The ambassador's assistant sees the man coming towards them, and abruptly ends the slumber. The messenger hands a document with the seal of Sultan Arslanshah to the now attentive ambassador. He reads through it, not without a degree of shock and surprisement. After a few moments of thought, he stands and searches the room for the Khawazi representative. Finding none, he looks at the Ghazni and then at the Caliph, before speaking to the council.

' This Council has seen much talk of aggression, usually centered around overt military actions. However, there is another kind of aggression, the kind that seeks to incite war through trickery and deceit.

It has come to the attention of the Sultan of the Seljuks that the Shah of Kwarezhm has resorted to such a type of aggression. He has played his neighbors against eachother, seeking to incite a war between the Seljuks and Ghazni by provoking fear between the two nations. He has even gone so far as to give reports of military movements of each country to the other, so that they would destroy eachother in any war he succeeded in inciting, leaving the Shah to pick up the pieces. As if that weren't sufficient proof of his treachery, the Shah has conquered settlement he agreed was under Seljuk dominion, and was only coaxed into giving it back in return for being allowed to leave other agreements made at the time of the Treaty of Rayy unfulfilled.

This campaign of trickery must stop now. We consider the Shah's actions to be in breach of the Treaty of Rayy's non-aggression clause. The Treaty is immediately nullified, and the Seljuk nation declares war on the treacherous Shah of Kwarezhm. This is a personal war over the breaking of the Seljuk/Kwarezhm treaty, and we ask that other nations do not act to aid the Shah. At the same time, to keep things fair, we do not ask our Coalition allies to intervene in the war. It is up to Allah to grant the side he deems righteous victory. '

Rolling the document up again, he returns to his seat and sends his assistant away. The messenger has left, and he's now alone to think about these tidings. As he sinks deep into thoughts, the sound level in the chamber increases.