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Queen Sable's Secret Letter

This storyline has played out in the GoTverse, and therefore, this article is NOT a spoiler. However, Game of Tomes players should be aware that none of this is known to the general public. Unless your character is a member of the Bodyguards of the various Houses that existed at the time, or one of those House Leaders, you probably don't know this information.
A medieval image of a rabbit armed with a spear on a crest. Text: House Lapin Owsla

TOP SECRET: OWSLA EYES ONLY.

Possession of this document without sufficient security clearance is a criminal offense under Lapin law.

  Queen Sable's Secret Letter refers to sealed letters that were delivered in secret by trusted House Lapin guards to each of the leaders of the other Great Houses. They were sealed with her personal seal, interwoven with a Literomantic ward designed to prevent anyone who was not a House Leader from opening them. They detailed a sensitive matter that the Mother of Bunnies thought was important to share with her peers, since it reflected a significant security risk, but preferred to be kept quiet from the general public.

Purpose

Queen Sable Aradia had discovered the identity of the person who had attempted to assassinate her with poison during the April 2022 Tourney of Tales. However, she was reluctant to make this public, because the assassin turned out to be her son Prince Galakrond, who had been affected by a form of mind control through nanobots created by The Company using technology engineered from Dinotech. Naturally, she did not want any harm to come to her son, especially since he was an unwilling participant in the affair; but she also felt that it was necessary to warn the other House Leaders, since he presented a clear and present danger to all Literomancers, especially the leaders of the Great Houses.

Historical Details

Background

An attempt on the Bunny Queen's life was made near the end of the April 2022 Tourney when leftover chili she was eating was poisoned with strychnine rat poison. She was rushed to hospital but the dose was pronounced fatal. At her request, she was brought back to The Warren to die. At the last moment, a ritual to invoke the power of love activated Queen Sable's own healing powers, and she was cured of the poison and its injuries.   With her top intelligence operative, Owsla Commander DM Stretch, Missing in Action while on a top secret assignment, the Mother of Bunnies and the Owsla were somewhat hampered in their investigation into the incident, but through the use of some secret literomantic method of Queen Sable's, and screening of people who had access to the royal kitchen, they eventually pinpointed Prince Galakrond as the only possible suspect. The failure of security cameras to capture the incident was discovered to be electromagnetic interference caused by Voidtouched energies, and when the footage was descrambled, it revealed Prince Galakrond in the act of the poisoning, but obviously under the effect of some kind of mind control.   Queen Sable hesitated before passing on this information, but felt she had a clear duty to do so.   The extensively vetted Lapin Guards who hand-delivered the copies of the letter were instructed to advise the House Leaders that it was their choice as to whether or not they chose to share this information with their House Heirs. It was expected that they would inform their Bodyguards, and presumably, most of them did so.
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Type
Text, Letter
Medium
Paper
Authoring Date
August 20, 2022
Location
Queen Sable Aradia
Character | Jan 16, 2026
Prince Galakrond
Character | Oct 5, 2025
The Company
Organization | Sep 27, 2025

Queen Sable's Secret Letter

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My friends, a matter of deep concern has come to my attention that I have a duty to inform you of. It grieves me greatly to have to tell you this. I hope you won't overreact, and yet it's significant enough that I have no choice but to take that risk.   We have identified the person who poisoned me. However, they were not operating under their own volition, and are themself a victim, just as I am.   Lord Galakrond has been compromised. At some point, likely during his period of captivity with the Company, he has been infected with nanobots that can control his mind and behaviour. This effect appears to operate by sending a sonic signal, something not dissimilar to the technology of The Bat Network, which we all know was created by the Company.   We don't know what sort of proximity is required to send this signal. It may be done by satellite.   We have video evidence of Galakrond putting poison directly into the chili that I subsequently ate. However, it was clear from the first that he was acting strangely. It was as though someone literally turned a switch on and off. He has no memory of the incident, as far as we can tell.   These nanobots were created by incorporating a code intended to run a swarm of bots as a video game hack, into what is likely molecular nanobots that were reverse engineered from Dinotech, or may actually be Dinotech.   The creator of the program that directs the Dinotech was none other than █████████████████, who thought that a video game hack was what ██ had licensed to the Company. ██ had no knowledge of why they wanted it, what they were using it for, or the extent of the evil the Company is capable of.   You may have heard a rumour that ██████ is at the Warren and under my protection. That rumour is true. ██████ is devastated by the knowledge of what ███ creation has done, and is working night and day on a solution.   To our knowledge, this is the only time that the bots have been activated to use Gala in this way. But because this poses a significant security threat, it is important you be informed. We don't believe the bots can relay what Gala sees or hears, due to the way in which this has been used, but it is possible. Hearing is more likely than seeing. However, we're pretty sure they were using Galakrond to send out all the leaked security footage from the Warren, and they may have continued to use him in this way during the smear campaign.   Electromagnetic interference is what we think scrambled the cameras. This is a signature Voidtouched trait, which is why we thought to look for it.   Galakrond is now consciously aware of this and has removed himself from the Warren as a result. To our knowledge, so far I am the only one who has been attacked. But it's possible the bots act on him in such a way that they prevent him from telling anyone else. Thus, that duty falls to me.   I can't tell you how devastated I am to have to give you this information. I hope you will not hold Galakrond responsible for this, since it is clearly not his fault. However, I must advise against including him in any of your security planning, even for the coming of the Horde, at this time.   That is all the information we currently have.   Please understand that I have told you this in the deepest confidence, and prefer this not be made publicly known, to avoid sullying the reputations of literomancers among the general public any further. I know that your wise and clear heads will prevail in recognizing that the Prince of Badgers is not to blame for this, but I don't trust the general population to have similarly cool heads.   Yours in service,
Sable Aradia, Chief Rabbit  

Royal Cypher of Queen Sable: A Lapin pink R with a silver horned crescent at the tail, surrounding a gold SA, surmounted by a bunny crown

Royal Cypher of Queen Sable by Sable Aradia



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Aug 14, 2023 21:57

I like how they had magic that prevented anyone except the one it was intended for to look at it :)

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