My lord,
See enclosed the following items, recovered from the crypt of Lord Gessler. They may be of interest to your hedge witch, Kora. If not, the lead is at least valuable scrap.
PLATE 1
Of the manifold illusion of the labile arcanium cartography, none is said to have penetrated greater than the 9th sheer, and that was in a time unrecorded by the peoples of the Gilded City. The 8th sheer was said to have been the domain of Roma Azel, last in the line of the witches of Mulanor, of whose empire sunk in the generation of our grandfathers, when the Gilded City was then known as Irem, before the subduction of Lethanese lands. The elder council of Marmara is said to count among them fourteen of the 7th sheer and forty nine of the 6th. The Gilded City knows I am of the 5th, of recent the apprentice of Hamil, who recounted two disjunctions of the 7th in the final moments of his life.
By the death-decree of Hamil, I have commissioned this lead plate and the following thirty one rejoinders to make note of the peak knowledge of the Gilded people, in these diminished times, to serve as glory to her greatest days, and if their loss should be unremarked, then their rediscovery should rejuvenate the spirit of discovery in the inheritors of the land once known as Irem. May we fall no further from the sphere.
