Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26295802-20170105005032/@comment-27097330-20170112021615

TheShade6 wrote: "Let's not be rash and consider the facts. What Lady Miriel asks, is the coastline, which you currently have no use for. And which is far enough from your homes that there shall be no disturbance. Mineral recourses, which shall not disturb you considering that you have no use for them currently and also considering that they are located below ground, where you are not. Free port access is simply the concept of not taxing ships to encourage more goods to flow in and out, which is far more than what is gained from taxes. Protection for Umbarians in your lands is simple logic, we may be allies, and we protect each other, you wouldn't like it if Tankul were murdered in Umbar and we did nothing about it. As for the pass to the dark lands, we meant it not as a threat, but as a call for peace. Have your people ever even used to pass into the dark lands out of the jungle? Lastly, I would wish to clear up misunderstandings, we are not threatening to increase violence, we simply meant to say that this deal would cease pre-existing violence between our nations. Further, we will not touch the lumber or livestock resources, only the mineral" "And the shadow speaks. Although you are no doubt more polite than your pubescent politeness pisser over there, your words betray you. No use for our minerals? Tanakul gold, jade, and obsidian has graced the halls of the Xin. Have you ever been to our coasts Mr. Tabor? Do you happen to know that in coastal tribes the primary source of income is in most cases the sea? Have you seen the ships from all over the world, from Rhun to Gondor, come sailing in to meet our southern port? The jungle may be our soul, but the ocean is our spirit. When I came into a position of power that spirit was gone. Dead. We were a collection of scared little tribes barely holding back your "civilized" allies. We are no longer the men who hid from Umbarans ships as they sacked the western towns. We have taken back what is ours, by not just birthright but our own flesh and blood. I have given the people of the jungle spirit again. And they will not let you take it away."