Caine-AoS

King Random,

You call upon your kin to swear on bended knee and put it in writing. Smart? No. Clever? Yes.

A man who will lie will lie under oath. I can see by your demand for Articles of Submission you do not care if you are lied to your face. However, having it in writing? Thats clever. It will hold up in court. It might even hold up magically.

You put me in a tricky position, brother. Lies are my trade and craft. I have spent the better part of a thousand years in Amber, and 5 thousand in shadow, establishing contacts and relationships, mostly for my own protection. But also at Oberon's behest.

So if it must be made plain, ill tell you, as much as I love the sea, it was always my cover.

I was Oberon's Spy-master.

This comes as not surprise to many around you but putting it in writing for what i assume will be public reading is.

Oberon had me taught in schools ill never tell you about. In techniques you never need to know about. Ive done things you never need to know about. He depended on my expertise as one tiny part of the sources that fed him information. Mine was surface knowledge. Royal squabbles in Begma. Dynastic turnovers in Thulusia. Migrations in Calrobon. Who the new Blues where in Dreana. Who the King of Tosa was at war with.

And which of my siblings had reproduced.