NPC diplo:
Eekin
eekin ships begin to appear in various harbours- they are using 'dhow' designs. these are not state military fleets but individual ships being sent by private eekin enterprise and the occasional eekin diplomat.
mostly they are interested in trading knowledge (they have very little and probably only monomeres and sail that you would need)
kuriotates
To the nations of Edsunland, the Sheim
Friends and neighbours,
It seems that at a time when we should be most coordinated, we are again splitting our efforts, each of us is focused on saving only our own people. Though the kurioates people are safe for now, so too were the hippus, kappa, bannor, and amurite in ages past and now the hungry dead are at their doorsteps- we have no illusions that failure to act now, decisively and completley, will lead them to our doorsteps as well.
Are your plans going to save your nation? defend them for one more decade, maybe two, while you hope that 'others', 'somewhere', stop the real threat- combat the disease where it lies? This sort of thinking, this divisiveness, will kill us all, kill our children and leave only a land of barren shambling corpses for the gods to bemoan.
No! I say NO! and i wish you would say it with me, "NO!"
We must act. We must ACT! We must ACT TOGETHER!
The ritual of life is the answer. We must fight the UNDERLYING DISEASE. we know it works... we have cured illness for hundreds of miles around the tomb of the god of life and health and the hungry dead fell to the earth to rot in silence as they should.
We must not give up. We must fight our way to the tomb, provide guards and escorts to our scholars and arcane components and complete the ritual we have begun.
We must heal the illness that infects this land all at once, for the good of ALL, finally and completley and move on!
Our efforts to save ourselves, one nation at a time may well work, for 10 years, 20 years, maybe even 30 years but we know that the dead do not tire and what will happen when your neighbours succumb and the ranks of the hungry dead are swollen once more with thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of these walking corpses? then we will all be damned.
So listen nations of edsunland; cease your petty squabbling and infantile selfishness- work together and live together or die. alone.