Proclomation of War from Amn
Amnians and her allies,
It is with regret I now must inform you that dark times lie ahead of us. The Waterdhavian-led assembly of warmongering states up north has seen fit to declare war upon us as we've rejected their ultimatums and pursue a callous and reckless endeavour which will endanger the stability and peace from the Sword Coast out to the Trackless Sea.
The nation of Amn and her allies has subsequently discontinued all diplomatic communication with the cities of the Lords' Alliance until they are ready to come back to the table with less talk about demands and ultimatums and more willingness to show a peace-minded attitude towards seeing a resolution come at hand.
We remind everyone that this war was not Amn's doing, that we never sought to go into open conflict in something we were wholly prepared to discuss and come to terms with amicably. Though we are not the aggressors, we will not idly cower either to these unwarranted acts of provocation and attacks on our right of self-government and self-determination. Amn discovered Maztica and laboured with blood, sweat and toil to see it become a haven of prosperity and a beacon of sustainable, colonial enterprise across a league of ocean.
Waterdeep's jealousy and contempt for our success knows no bound and thus they seek to drag other cities into their conflict, using words like massacres and slaughter where there was a border skirmish and territorial dispute.
Our fleets are ready and more mustering to meet any aggression upon the sea. Our armies are preparing itself, Dahaunarch Tanislove guarantees that soldiers straight from Eshpurta are ready to secure our trade-ways and domain.
Our history has been one of bloody toil to ensure our free domain, our right to prosper as a soverign state: from Calimshan, Tethyr and now to bitter northerns cities who has seen what we have made with jealousy and now wish to tear that away from us by the sword. But we will not yield and inch of territory, a coin to weregild or extortion. In these dark hours we will not falter.
Now is the hour to come together and proect what is ours and ensure a future free of northern subjugation and lust for conflict.
Amn prevails.
Day 11, Month 1 (Hammer (Deepwinter)), 178 AR
Meisarch Erlranther Alibakkar