What has begun.

[tntoverlords.livejournal.com]

Characters: Any who attended the Heads of State meeting.
Progress: In Progress
Summary: After the meeting adjourns, there are private conversations to be had.
Location: Dali
Date: January 1804, before the Epitaph invasion
Warnings: N/A

After several hours over the table, the meeting was adjourned; many parties left dissatisfied, disgruntled, and in some cases, even afraid. Compared to the last meeting aboard Regent Cid's Invincible, the meeting in Dali had been a joke. There were even more present than the first time, and somehow, it was less productive. The only thing everyone seemed united on, was that Kefka, Weiss, and others of their kind needed to be stopped. At what cost is where everything fell to pieces. As the crowd dispersed, the old mage factory was left with stirred-up dust and the heavy feeling of words and feelings unspoken.

[ Party Style! Tag in, and tag each other. If there's people you need to talk to while you're still in Dali, this is the place to do it. Threads can occur anywhere in Dali, from the factory, to the Inn, the fields, etc. ]

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[dynast-king.livejournal.com]

"I must beg your forgiveness, Larsa." Vayne strode closer, arms crossed over his chest, head lowered, and by all appearances, deeply troubled. It was something he would only do when letting his guard down. Larsa, after all, was no threat. "I had hoped for a better end, and that Father would be left out of the discussions."

[dynast-king.livejournal.com]

Vayne reached within a pocket and withdrew his own piece of nethicite, extending the hand to Larsa. "See for yourself. They fear and jepoardize others for naught. It is nothing more than a defensive tool." He leaned over his brother's shoulder, lowering his voice. "Mark you well, for all their high notions, they will seek it for themselves, as Ondore has done before. Hypocrisy at its worst."

Irritation continuing to rise, he glanced away and added, "Recalling the list of offenses he still bears against father and therefore us, the Marquis makes himself vulgar. I do not need to hear from another what I know he was capable of."

[dynast-king.livejournal.com]

"I suggest we both watch our backs. For all those high-minded words, I do not doubt that Ondore would put and end to both of us if opportunity presented itself. As you saw today, he still bears grudges against House Solidor."

Larsa's presenting of his own nethicite did not fully surprise Vayne. His brother's blood ran truer than one might have expected for all his naive notions. That his brother had set about securing his own assured Vayne of his capabilities to act plan ahead. "Do not hesitate to use that. It could well save your life. It absorbs this Kefka's magicks and renders them useless."

He wanted to tell his younger brother to stay away from the Marquis, but Vayne knew the boy well enough to know he would do otherwise out of a contrary spirit. Better to reason with him. "You will do as you wish, but I do not trust Ondore. Recall well, your pleas to accept peace from him and the Lady Ashe, while their insurgence hovered over the skies of Dalmasca. Had I any hope they would choose such, rather than seeking base revenge, I would have accepted it. Rather, he took to arms, and she sought out Occurian stones to exact revenge. These are not the acts of people seeking peace. To trust them is foolhardy and dangerous. I will not permit them to harm you or Gaia from their tightly held grudges."

[dynast-king.livejournal.com]

"And when will they relinquish them? Once we are both eliminated, or just I? Perhaps once Gaia is brought to smouldering ruins, from the heavy hand of a madman." He caught that Larsa was coming to their defense, and he found it irritating, To the point of making that sense of betrayal stick forever. "I have no cause to think otherwise of him. See for yourself what he and his allies choose to do in the coming weeks. I assure you, for all their kind words of friendship, they trust neither of us."

And Vayne didn't trust them either.

"However, you are correct. I intend to have duplicates of the nethicite made, as the materials become available, regardless of the braying of disgruntled betrayers. To do otherwise... the risk is far too great. Enough blood has been shed."