Wed your allies
shower them in gilded promises.
Bed you enemies
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the blade stills closeby and secrets make
for the most companionable of bedfellows.
— An excerpt from a letter from Empress Ayuan Akota Ashiphiex
To Prince Atesh Ayuan Ashiphiex.
Year 3 of the Conquering