Harsh words indeed, Hypatios. Long did I serve you dutifully, keeping everything in order while you campaigned for the good of the house, the empire, and most of all yourself. I more than anyone know that harsh measures were needed in Anatolia - having long fought the Turks I saw that there was no hope of a peaceful coexsistance, it was either us or them - but you went too far. We had always seized the property of the vanquished and evicted the resident Turks from each settlement we took, and while there while resistance, there was never wholesale slaughter. Yet at their capital you gave your orders and they were wrong. I could not stand by you after Iconium and my loyalty to you wavered. I still remained loyal to the house and to the empire and I chose the Empire over you, Hypatios.

Get over it.

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