Your Majesty,
I've finished my analysis of the files regarding Wilhelm's Secret History of Adrestia from the Slithers' Library in Arundel– I was able to break the code based on feedback I received from the Professor some time ago. While I always found it rather odd that he had fluency in the Ancient Proto-Cyrillic, I was willing to chalk it up to esoteric experiences in Almyra and along the Throat after he had cleared my initial suspicions.
The matter regarding my research into the identity of Fallstaff von Hrym was a ruse, as I'm sure you know. That letter that the Professor procured confirmed the "Fallstaff" after 1161 was one of them from that point on, and not your father's oldest friend. My concern was whether or not we were being led on, ourselves.
But as you said, the Professor could not have been a slitherer based on what happened at the Canyon. They would not have intervened otherwise.
That said, I am relieved you chose not to reveal your cards to him so early.
Thank you for taking that advice.
If that diary of his claims to be true, though – Sothis is probably the answer to that question regarding his own ancient knowledge, however fragmentary and incomplete it was.
Please allow me to continue reading that text.
I promise to skip over any of the sexual encounters you two had upon encountering them.
That being said, I do hope you appropriately protected yourself…
In any event, that library in Arundel was a treasure trove.
As I suspected, the history that was being fed to you in that dungeon was colored in their favor, but the "real story" as presented still paints a rather damning portrait of Seiros.
I still question your decision to follow the Professor's strategy in the end, as it has robbed us of significant assets… not least including himself, but I am willing to grant that we would've been struggling to deal with these individuals after, had they been able to affect their plan regarding Seiros's corpse.
Our first move against them after the war would've most likely been met with an almost infinite number of those javelins of light – considering their means of creation.
I humbly ask for your forgiveness in this and other matters regarding the Professor. Had I known that blowing the bridge would have resulted in his death, I would have spared nothing to prevent the tumult his loss has inflicted upon you.
Still, it is folly to stay here.
Please return to Enbarr.
If I may be so bold, this is not what he would have wanted.
He told me as such the morning of the attack, while you were still sleeping.
For his and your sake, do not let his death be in vain.
Your Servant,
Hubert
To: Thales
From: Bias
Post Date: 11.11.1177
Thales, I've added strikethroughs to indicate the parts you should omit when you present this heirloom to your weapon in the dungeon. Wilhelm clearly never had enough time to complete the thousands of years that he had lived with Sothis prior to the War, but it seems that he wrote the text in the following order:
1. Preface regarding the construction of Enbarr as an early residence with the Nabateans.
2. Incomplete description regarding the Crests. Only understood the nature of Sothis's.
3. Immediate aftermath of Sothis's death – was apparently not present at Zanado
4. Complete History of the War of Heroes (possibly edited by Lycaon?) – but was unaware of the origin of the Ten Elites.
5. Fragmentary poetic work completed on his deathbed professing his eternal love for Sothis.
He specifically mentions never taking his armor off after Sothis's death as a form of ritual self-flagellation, so I'm wondering if the other four Saints were aware of his identity during the War of Heroes. Apparently there was a period of rather prolonged separation between himself, Seiros, and the Saints following our triumph in the Red Canyon.
Based on the timelines he gives in Part Four, Macuil was most likely aware but I wonder if Cichol, Cethleann, and Indech had established his identity after Zanado. As I understand, Cichol's wife was responsible for holding a state funeral for "Their Teacher" at the request of Seiros before we attacked "Enbarr 1" – the old city prior to Lyacon's reconstruction effort. He was never given a name at that funeral, per some of the archaeological excavations we did in Mauricius's reign, when he was renovating the gardens.
Obviously most of the early Nabatean texts we have from the Heroes War are pretty mum on the Goddess having a lover – just a human retainer who ended up as a teacher of theirs and died at Zanado. Regardless, there seems to be a pact amongst them to never disclose how they were effectively "fathered" by mankind, figuratively if not literally.
That said, perhaps Sothis granted Seiros privileged information, as she was her heir, after all.
Of course, this is all pure speculation on my part. Best not disclose any of it all - at least until our friend's research along the Throat starts making headway.
In the event of new information being revealed, we should scrap the entirety of section one. Although that was very useful in our manipulation of Ionius – if she realizes that we ever led him along with our own tools… that could be problematic for us.
Parts two through four are simple enough to twist – we merely need to follow along Seiros's own revision of history. Omitting all of the particulars regarding the Ten Elites being enemies of Seiros has been done on our behalf already by the Archbishop herself. Alternatively, we can just omit Part 4 as well.
Part Five… Best just burn it.
That said – take these suggestions as they are.
I shall naturally leave the final decision to you, our champion.
Hail Agartha. Hail Victory.
To: Hubert
From: Edelgard
- He is not dead.
- He was never one of my torturers and I told you that ad nauseum. His only affiliation, from the moment he chose the Eagles was to us, and you, and me.
- Not telling him everything after the Canyon is the only regret I will carry with me on our conquest of Fodlan.
- Regarding the diary: Every single entry after the one you read is a sexual encounter between the two of us. Thus, I cannot allow it.
- My "uncle" stated that a "weapon like you can no longer create life, only destroy it".
- I will never forgive you for blowing that bridge. But Hubert... thank you for blowing that bridge. When I saw his face at that moment, I had all the confirmation that I needed that the Nabateans had not claimed his heart. That it was still truly his own.
- I am not returning to Enbarr without my Byleth.
