Her Infernal Majestrix, Queen Abrogail II of the House of Thrune, addresses the crowd without bothering about moving to the head of the room.

"My loyal subjects, and everyone else present, tonight we celebrate the end of an era of Cheliax.  Under your previous ruler, you lost Andoran and Galt; beneath myself, you've gained Nidal.  We are no longer a structure that dies but a structure that grows."

"Nidal launched a treacherous surprise attack on us, in defiance of the knee they had pretended to bend to us through centuries.  Our god miserably crushed their god, and their defeat in battle followed shortly after.  I'd like to say that our armies and wizards proved their quality, but in truth, they mostly proved their quantity.  Don't bother consoling yourselves about how few other countries in Golarion could field soldiers as individually vicious as Nidal's.  It's heresy to claim that Hell cannot raise up more vicious and formidable warriors than Zon-Kuthon, and we have fallen unacceptably short of that target.  This war should not have taken as long as it did."

"Tonight I do honor, then, to the wizard academies of Cheliax, and the schools that feed them.  Quantity won this war - the Cheliax that trains a greater percentage of its inhabitants to wizardry than any other nation in the world."

"It's still not good enough, of course.  We are ramping up the manufacture of intelligence headbands beyond what any other nation in Golarion imagines to be possible, not only +2 intelligence headbands but +4.  In the short term, we intend to fit all our fourth-circles with +4 headbands and all our third-circles with +2 headbands.  In the middle term, the most promising students in academies will be loaned headbands for six-hour shifts in four classes, speeding their initial acquisition of wizard skills.  In years beyond, we'll use that to train INT 13 students as if they were INT 17s and double our wizard population from its unacceptably low current point of being the highest in the world."

"We begin with the highest percentage of wizards, and in the true contest now begun with the Scientific Revolution out of Osirion, our path to victory will be compounding the interest of our initial wealth.  They too will learn to refine spellsilver as we do, given time.  We have begun first.  We will have more wizards who master Prestidigitation, we will refine more spellsilver, we will make more headbands and train more wizards, and every innovation out of the Scientific Revolution that they do not manage to keep utterly secret will be adopted by a country that is more literate than theirs."

"We will be more motivated, and more unified, because that is the advantage of Evil over Good and the advantage of Chaos over Law.  But make no mistake, it is very hard to win a war with quality that you are losing on quantity.  Wars are won by farmers, not warriors, because it's the farms that determine how much gold you have available to raise up warriors of whatever quality you can manage."

"If you get fascinated by whatever shiny gadgets are coming out of the Scientific Revolution, and ignore what knowledge our spies have stolen about agriculture, sanitation, medicine, educational techniques, I will kill you and give your heir exactly one chance to do better before I take away your family lands and award them to somebody more competent."

"In the coming month, every single noble of Cheliax will be issued with a +4 Intelligence headband.  Any time your superior or the Crown tells you that you're being stupid, you're going take off whatever headgear you were previously wearing, and put on the Intelligence headband, and not take it off until they tell you the problem has been corrected.  I've had it with ruling a country of idiots."

Her Infernal Majestrix, Queen Abrogail II of the House of Thrune, addresses the crowd without bothering about moving to the head of the room.

"My loyal subjects, and everyone else present, tonight we celebrate the end of an era of Cheliax.  Under your previous ruler, you lost Andoran and Galt; beneath myself, you've gained Nidal.  We are no longer a structure that dies but a structure that grows."

"Nidal launched a treacherous surprise attack on us, in defiance of the knee they had pretended to bend to us through centuries.  Our god miserably crushed their god, and their defeat in battle followed shortly after.  I'd like to say that our armies and wizards proved their quality, but in truth, they mostly proved their quantity.  Don't bother consoling yourselves about how few other countries in Golarion could field soldiers as individually vicious as Nidal's.  It's heresy to claim that Hell cannot raise up more vicious and formidable warriors than Zon-Kuthon, and we have fallen unacceptably short of that target.  This war should not have taken as long as it did."

"Tonight I do honor, then, to the wizard academies of Cheliax, and the schools that feed them.  Quantity won this war - the Cheliax that trains a greater percentage of its inhabitants to wizardry than any other nation in the world."

"It's still not good enough, of course.  We are ramping up the manufacture of intelligence headbands beyond what any other nation in Golarion imagines to be possible, not only +2 intelligence headbands but +4.  In the short term, we intend to fit all our fourth-circles with +4 headbands and all our third-circles with +2 headbands.  In the middle term, the most promising students in academies will be loaned headbands for six-hour shifts in four classes, speeding their initial acquisition of wizard skills.  In years beyond, we'll use that to train INT 13 students as if they were INT 17s and double our wizard population from its unacceptably low current point of being the highest in the world."

"We begin with the highest percentage of wizards, and in the true contest now begun with the Scientific Revolution out of Osirion, our path to victory will be compounding the interest of our initial wealth.  They too will learn to refine spellsilver as we do, given time.  We have begun first.  We will have more wizards who master Prestidigitation, we will refine more spellsilver, we will make more headbands and train more wizards, and every innovation out of the Scientific Revolution that they do not manage to keep utterly secret will be adopted by a country that is more literate than theirs."

"We will be more motivated, and more unified, because that is the advantage of Evil over Good and the advantage of Law over Chaos.  But make no mistake, it is very hard to win a war with quality that you are losing on quantity.  Wars are won by farmers, not warriors, because it's the farms that determine how much gold you have available to raise up warriors of whatever quality you can manage."

"If you get fascinated by whatever shiny gadgets are coming out of the Scientific Revolution, and ignore what knowledge our spies have stolen about agriculture, sanitation, medicine, educational techniques, I will kill you and give your heir exactly one chance to do better before I take away your family lands and award them to somebody more competent."

"In the coming month, every single noble of Cheliax will be issued with a +4 Intelligence headband.  Any time your superior or the Crown tells you that you're being stupid, you're going take off whatever headgear you were previously wearing, and put on the Intelligence headband, and not take it off until they tell you the problem has been corrected.  I've had it with ruling a country of idiots."

Her Infernal Majestrix, Queen Abrogail II of the House of Thrune, addresses the crowd without bothering about moving to the head of the room.

"My loyal subjects, and everyone else present, tonight we celebrate the end of an era of Cheliax.  Under your previous ruler, you lost Andoran and Galt; beneath myself, you've gained Nidal.  We are no longer a structure that dies but a structure that grows."

"Nidal launched a treacherous surprise attack on us, in defiance of the knee they had pretended to bend to us through centuries.  Our god miserably crushed their god, and their defeat in battle followed shortly after.  I'd like to say that our armies and wizards proved their quality, but in truth, they mostly proved their quantity.  Don't bother consoling yourselves about how few other countries in Golarion could field soldiers as individually vicious as Nidal's.  It's heresy to claim that Hell cannot raise up more vicious and formidable warriors than Zon-Kuthon, and we have fallen unacceptably short of that target.  This war should not have taken as long as it did."

"Tonight I do honor, then, to the wizard academies of Cheliax, and the schools that feed them.  Quantity won this war - the Cheliax that trains a greater percentage of its inhabitants to wizardry than any other nation in the world."

"It's still not good enough, of course.  We are ramping up the manufacture of intelligence headbands beyond what any other nation in Golarion imagines to be possible, not only +2 intelligence headbands but +4.  In the short term, we intend to fit all our fourth-circles with +4 headbands and all our third-circles with +2 headbands.  In the middle term, the most promising students in academies will be loaned headbands for six-hour shifts in four classes, speeding their initial acquisition of wizard skills.  In years beyond, we'll use that to train INT 13 students as if they were INT 17s and double our wizard population from its unacceptably low current point of being the highest in the world."

"We begin with the highest percentage of wizards, and in the true contest now begun with the Scientific Revolution out of Osirion, our path to victory will be compounding the interest of our initial wealth.  They too will learn to refine spellsilver as we do, given time.  We have begun first.  We will have more wizards who master Prestidigitation, we will refine more spellsilver, we will make more headbands and train more wizards, and every innovation out of the Scientific Revolution that they do not manage to keep utterly secret will be adopted by a country that is more literate than theirs."

"We will be more motivated, and more unified, because that is the advantage of Evil over Good and the advantage of Law over Chaos.  But make no mistake, it is very hard to win a war with quality that you are losing on quantity.  Wars are won by farmers, not warriors, because it's the farms that determine how much gold you have available to raise up warriors of whatever quality you can manage."

"If you get fascinated by whatever shiny gadgets are coming out of the Scientific Revolution, and ignore what knowledge our spies have stolen about agriculture, sanitation, medicine, educational techniques, I will kill you and give your heir exactly one chance to do better before I take away your family lands and award them to somebody more competent."

"In the coming month, every single noble of Cheliax will be issued with a +4 Intelligence headband.  Any time your superior or the Crown tells you that you're being stupid, you're going to take off whatever headgear you were previously wearing, and put on the Intelligence headband, and not take it off until they tell you the problem has been corrected.  I've had it with ruling a country of idiots."

Her Infernal Majestrix, Queen Abrogail II of the House of Thrune, addresses the crowd without bothering about moving to the head of the room.

"My loyal subjects, and everyone else present, tonight we celebrate the end of an era of Cheliax.  Under your previous ruler, you lost Andoran and Galt; beneath myself, you've gained Nidal.  We are no longer a structure that dies but a structure that grows."

"Nidal launched a treacherous surprise attack on us, in defiance of the knee they had pretended to bend to us through centuries.  Our god miserably crushed their god, and their defeat in battle followed shortly after.  I'd like to say that our armies and wizards proved their quality, but in truth, they mostly proved their quantity.  Don't bother consoling yourselves about how few other countries in Golarion could field soldiers as individually vicious as Nidal's.  It's heresy to claim that Hell cannot raise up more vicious and formidable warriors than Zon-Kuthon, and we have fallen unacceptably short of that target.  This war should not have taken as long as it did."

"Tonight I do honor, then, to the wizard academies of Cheliax, and the schools that feed them.  Quantity won this war - the Cheliax that trains a greater percentage of its inhabitants to wizardry than any other nation in the world."

"It's still not good enough, of course.  We are ramping up the manufacture of intelligence headbands beyond what any other nation in Golarion imagines to be possible, not only +2 intelligence headbands but +4.  In the short term, we intend to fit all our fourth-circles with +4 headbands and all our third-circles with +2 headbands.  In the middle term, the most promising students in academies will be loaned headbands for six-hour shifts in four classes, speeding their initial acquisition of wizard skills.  In years beyond, we'll use that to train INT 13 students as if they were INT 17s and double our wizard population from its unacceptably low current point of being the highest in the world."

"We begin with the highest percentage of wizards, and in the true contest now begun with the Scientific Revolution out of Osirion, our path to victory will be compounding the interest of our initial wealth.  They too will learn to refine spellsilver as we do, given time.  We have begun first.  We will have more wizards who master Prestidigitation, we will refine more spellsilver, we will make more headbands and train more wizards, and every innovation out of the Scientific Revolution that they do not manage to keep utterly secret will be adopted by a country that is more literate than theirs."

"We will be more motivated, and more unified, because that is the advantage of Evil over Good and the advantage of Law over Chaos.  But make no mistake, it is very hard to win a war with quality that you are losing on quantity.  Wars are won by farmers, not warriors, because it's the farms that determine how much gold you have available to raise up warriors of whatever quality you can manage."

"If you get fascinated by whatever shiny gadgets are coming out of the Scientific Revolution, and ignore what knowledge our spies have stolen about agriculture, sanitation, medicine, educational techniques, I will kill you and give your heir exactly one chance to do better before I take away your family lands and award them to somebody more competent."

"I am also unbelievably pleased - you have no idea how pleased I am - to announce that in the coming month, every single noble of Cheliax will be issued with a +4 Intelligence headband.  Any time your superior or the Crown tells you that you're being stupid, you're going to take off whatever headgear you were previously wearing, and put on the Intelligence headband, and not take it off until they tell you the problem has been corrected.  I've had it with ruling a country of idiots."

Her Infernal Majestrix, Queen Abrogail II of the House of Thrune, addresses the crowd without bothering about moving to the head of the room.

"My loyal subjects, and everyone else present, tonight we celebrate the end of an era of Cheliax.  Under your previous ruler, you lost Andoran and Galt; beneath myself, you've gained Nidal.  We are no longer a structure that dies but a structure that grows."

"Nidal launched a treacherous surprise attack on us, in defiance of the knee they had pretended to bend to us through centuries.  Our god miserably crushed their god, and their defeat in battle followed shortly after.  I'd like to say that our armies and wizards proved their quality, but in truth, they mostly proved their quantity.  Don't bother consoling yourselves about how few other countries in Golarion could field soldiers as individually vicious as Nidal's.  It's heresy to claim that Hell cannot raise up more vicious and formidable warriors than Zon-Kuthon, and we have fallen unacceptably short of that target.  This war should not have taken as long as it did."

"Tonight I do honor, then, to the wizard academies of Cheliax, and the schools that feed them.  Quantity won this war - the Cheliax that trains a greater percentage of its inhabitants to wizardry than any other nation in the world."

"It's still not good enough, of course.  We are ramping up the manufacture of intelligence headbands beyond what any other nation in Golarion imagines to be possible, not only +2 intelligence headbands but +4.  In the short term, we intend to fit all our fourth-circles with +4 headbands and all our third-circles with +2 headbands.  In the middle term, the most promising students in academies will be loaned headbands for six-hour shifts in four classes, speeding their initial acquisition of wizard skills.  In years beyond, we'll use that to train INT 13 students as if they were INT 17s and double our wizard population from its unacceptably low current point of being the highest in the world."

"We begin with the highest percentage of wizards, and in the true contest now begun with the Scientific Revolution out of Osirion, our path to victory will be compounding the interest of our initial wealth.  They too will learn to refine spellsilver as we do, given time.  We have begun first.  We will have more wizards who master Prestidigitation, we will refine more spellsilver, we will make more headbands and train more wizards, and every innovation out of the Scientific Revolution that they do not manage to keep utterly secret will be adopted by a country that is more literate than theirs."

"We will be more motivated, and more unified, because that is the advantage of Evil over Good and the advantage of Law over Chaos.  But make no mistake, it is very hard to win a war with quality that you are losing on quantity.  Wars are won by farmers, not warriors, because it's the farms that determine how much gold you have available to raise up warriors of whatever quality you can manage."

"If you get fascinated by whatever sparking gadgets are coming out of the Scientific Revolution, and ignore what knowledge our spies have stolen about agriculture, sanitation, medicine, educational techniques, I will kill you and give your heir exactly one chance to do better before I take away your family lands and award them to somebody more competent."

"I am also unbelievably pleased - you have no idea how pleased I am - to announce that in the coming month, every single noble of Cheliax will be issued with a +4 Intelligence headband.  Any time your superior or the Crown tells you that you're being stupid, you're going to take off whatever headgear you were previously wearing, and put on the Intelligence headband, and not take it off until they tell you the problem has been corrected.  I've had it with ruling a country of idiots."

Her Infernal Majestrix, Queen Abrogail II of the House of Thrune, addresses the crowd without bothering about moving to the head of the room.

"My loyal subjects, and everyone else present, tonight we celebrate the end of an era of Cheliax.  Under your previous ruler, you lost Andoran and Galt; beneath myself, you've gained Nidal.  We are no longer a structure that dies but a structure that grows."

"Nidal launched a treacherous surprise attack on us, in defiance of the knee they had pretended to bend to us through centuries.  Our god miserably crushed their god, and their defeat in battle followed shortly after.  The news-sheets will say that our armies and wizards proved their quality, but in truth, they mostly proved their quantity.  Don't bother consoling yourselves about how few other countries in Golarion could field soldiers as individually vicious as Nidal's.  It's heresy to claim that Hell cannot raise up more vicious and formidable warriors than Zon-Kuthon, and we have fallen unacceptably short of that target.  This war should not have taken as long as it did."

"Tonight I do honor, then, to the wizard academies of Cheliax, and the schools that feed them.  Quantity won this war - the Cheliax that trains a greater percentage of its inhabitants to wizardry than any other nation in the world."

"It's still not good enough, of course.  We are ramping up the manufacture of intelligence headbands beyond what any other nation in Golarion imagines to be possible, not only +2 intelligence headbands but +4.  In the short term, we intend to fit all our fourth-circles with +4 headbands and all our third-circles with +2 headbands.  In the middle term, the most promising students in academies will be loaned headbands for six-hour shifts in four classes, speeding their initial acquisition of wizard skills.  In years beyond, we'll use that to train INT 13 students as if they were INT 17s and double our wizard population from its unacceptably low current point of being the highest in the world."

"We begin with the highest percentage of wizards, and in the true contest now begun with the Scientific Revolution out of Osirion, our path to victory will be compounding the interest of our initial wealth.  They too will learn to refine spellsilver as we do, given time.  We have begun first.  We will have more wizards who master Prestidigitation, we will refine more spellsilver, we will make more headbands and train more wizards, and every innovation out of the Scientific Revolution that they do not manage to keep utterly secret will be adopted by a country that is more literate than theirs."

"We will be more motivated, and more unified, because that is the advantage of Evil over Good and the advantage of Law over Chaos.  But make no mistake, it is very hard to win a war with quality that you are losing on quantity.  Wars are won by farmers, not warriors, because it's the farms that determine how much gold you have available to raise up warriors of whatever quality you can manage."

"If you get fascinated by whatever sparking gadgets are coming out of the Scientific Revolution, and ignore what knowledge our spies have stolen about agriculture, sanitation, medicine, educational techniques, I will kill you and give your heir exactly one chance to do better before I take away your family lands and award them to somebody more competent."

"I am also unbelievably pleased - you have no idea how pleased I am - to announce that in the coming month, every single noble of Cheliax will be issued with a +4 Intelligence headband.  Any time your superior or the Crown tells you that you're being stupid, you're going to take off whatever headgear you were previously wearing, and put on the Intelligence headband, and not take it off until they tell you the problem has been corrected.  I've had it with ruling a country of idiots."