Edena_of_Neith said:
Mina looks at the God Emperor, and speaks:
Well?
It is wisdom to have one as knowledgeable and powerful as Acererak within the ranks of the Union of the Worlds.
He will be the instructor of our mages.
He will teach our wizards the great mysteries that his thousands of years of learning have acquired.
His host will join our host, and with it's added power the Union of the Worlds will be safer and stronger, better protected against Alzem and his Angels.
We will be better positioned to protect our lands from the Army of Evil that threatens Oerth.
We must accept Acererak as a full fledged member of the Union of the Worlds.
And we must give back to Acererak, all the lands that he conquered.
(She regards the God Emperor.)
We are talking about a pittance.
Some land.
The Iron League.
Sunndi.
The Tilvanot Peninsula.
Part of Hempmonaland.
A way of apology to a truly great mage who deserves an apology for an unwise attack.
"Is that all he demands?" the God Emperor asks sarcastically, "Or does he still demand that I and Kas be deposed from our rightful rule and delivered to him to suffer eternal torture in his care? No Mina, I appreciate your desire to make peace between us, but he must speak for himself in these negotiations. Acererak is wise and powerful and I do not want to fight him but he is a threat.
His apoteosis had the potential to make him the most powerful being in the multiverse, that's why I attacked him in the first place, to save my people from being enslaved by him in the future. I thought that by erasing his colours from the map I would prevent him from gaining enough power to achieve his change. Well, my success was a failure, he apoteosed despite my actions and a large part of his territories were made useless by natural, and unnatural, disaster.
But, it turns out that he too failed. The Apoteosis should have made him the master of all the undead in the mulitverse, but he controls only a minuscule fraction. He's not the threat I thought he would be and I do not fear him.
For the sake of Oerth there must be peace and I will not attack him unless he attacks me or my friends and allies, which for the time being are all the nations and organisations on Oerth, except the Black Brotherhood. For his own sake he should consider the consequences of the Red Death entering this Multiverse, undead are highly magical creatures and he would loose all his power, including his power over himself. He and his children would all become slaves of the Red Death. Peace is the only way, the only option, for Oerth."