I warn you all now, Kalameteros is tightening his grip upon you all. When this house was first founded it was a joint, three way, expedition between Kalameteros, Kosmas and I. However it was not long before Kosmas was driven into retirement, Ioannis putting on too much pressure for him to cope with. He then called himself the head of the House, forgetting the founding trio, and this fake title allowed him to take the hand of a princess thus securing a royal family for himself. But this was not enough, to him I was still questioning his total power too often, still behaving as one of the three, when he wanted there to only be one. My breaking of one law was his perfect opportunity, while many in the Magnaura only wanted a temporary ban of army control, or for me to be confined to an island for a term or so before taking up my usual duties he saw a chance. He went one step further than any other had suggested and ruined me, he removed me from the house leaving all the power to himself, giving him total command over you all, and leaving me with nothing but a small island and a band of peasants. He has no care for any of you, only power. He took the power of two of his supposed friends for his own. And I am not fooled by his excuse for that, I did not see one comment degrading the Asteri as a whole. No one saw it as a fault of the house only a fault of me. I had not lowered the reputation of the house, only my own reputation. It is Kalameteros who is twisting this house to suit him, and now has it blindly following him.

I thought you Zigavinos would have had more loyalty to me, we have been together for two and a bit terms now, yet you remove me with no comment and little apparent feeling. I tell you now that if it wasn't for me you would never have been invited to this house, I may have not been the one to send the letter but I suggested your name and campaigned heavily to have you invited. It seems that loyalty to people means nothing here though, only loyalty to power, which leads to you following tyrants like Kalameteros. The man is a snake, he has manipulated us all and become the most powerful man in this empire and you are the men who have let that happen. I am sure a time will come when he will do something that will make you regret following him and I plan to try my utmost to stop it from happening.

This is one power hungerer that I will not allow to live, while I may not have much I can, and will, still try. You have betrayed us all Ioannis, even those who thought of you as a friend.