The Garden Pamphlets

The Garden Pamphlets are a series of posts and short informational handouts that are written by an anonymous Asgarnian supporter of the Royalist factions. More often than not, the pamphlets include a series of lesser-known literature written by notable figures in Asgarnian culture. The Pamphlets are written to protest the regime of Dion Magnan and the White Knight government over Falador, but often attempt to remind the people of Falador and Asgarnia of their culture, heritage, and almost always attempt to inspire rebellion.

The Garden Pamphlet, Edition I
A Decent, Modern Faladian'A True Faladian - Bernard of Sarim''' ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ===A Decent, Modern Faladian=== Dear Mr. Grosvenor,Well, Mister Magnan came to you to ask for help, did he? He described himself as a “good Asgarnian” and as a “decent Faladian.” He fled from the “Kandarian hell.” He is an émigré. You ask me what you should do with this interesting being. I reply: Please read the following letter to him, and he will stop asking you for help. And if you pass this letter on to the public, you will do your people a valuable sto ervice. It is both an accusation and a rejection. I am a “good Asganian” and a “decent Faladian”! Only a modern Faladian has the insolence make such a claim. I answer it only to reach the public and finally dispatch the absurd notion of the “decent Faladian.” The fable of the “decent Faladian” is not an Imperial fable that has been handed down by our people and therefore something with educational value, but rather it is a shameless lie designed to lull the host people to sleep and appeal to hysterical weaklings. This Faladian method has undoubtedly had some success in the past, and also works today in counties and peoples with foundations that have given themselves over to Faladian control. However, outside of a tiny group of intellectual know-it-alls, no reasonable person in the Kingdom would want to say “decent” and “Faladian” in the same breath. To the Asgarnian mind, decency demands absolute selflessness. A “good Asgarnian” works hard and joyfully to serve his people. For him, “making something” has always been a more important result of his creative strength than “making money.” The good Imperial values each creation, each discovery, as a service to the Kingdom's people’s community that is more valuable to him than the possibility of making money. The best Imperial is not he who makes the most money, but rather he who is of greatest service to his people. I doubt that one can translate this sentence into modern Faladian, since it goes far beyond any of their understandings. You Faladians must think your original host peoples are stupid! You have always done your duty as a citizen, you claim, punctually paying your not insubstantial taxes, probably because it could not be avoided even after you had taken advantages of all the deductions and loopholes. You have done much good, and carefully recorded every bit of it in order to demand repayment. You have made contributions to maintain historic castles and palaces, and can prove it by letters of thanks from the appropriate officials. And you also have medals from various minor nobles to prove your decency. And so you are a “good Asgarnian,” as if one did not know that you had taken the same steps to gain the esteem of the Dragon Guards, even “earning” Kandarian medals and similar honors just to be safe. Even your noble title that you gained as a court jester means as little to us as the baptismal water that you had to tolerate in order to join the nobility. Both prove only that there are money-hungry nobles and church proselytizers who ignore the laws of blood and race, just as you do, for their own benefit! But now you are losing all your capital holdings in Asgarnia and the Empire, for the people and its leadership today are unforgiving in this beautiful area. There were times when "Faladians" like you could buy titles, citizenship, religion and stature, just as you could buy magicks for your noses and flat feet! That, however, does not mean that the new Kingdom of Richard Grosvenor has to pay the bills for your investments that you claim to be your due as a “good Asgarnian.” __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ===A True Asgarnian === - Bernard of Sarim Popular Asgarnian wartime monk Bernard of Sarim has today released his anti-Faladian patriotic anthem entitled It’s Happening. Bernard of Sarim is considered the first patriot among the true nation of Asgarnia, and his anthems, ballads and songs have given him much fame in the kingdom of Misthalin, where a great deal of Asgarnian refugees have relocated too. Bernard is currently residing in the city of Rimmington, under the patronage of House Grosvenor, who have now risen to prominence in their former homeland. And with Bernard's songs, the city has seen an upheaval of happiness and a curiosity for the happenings in the continent of Gielinor. Bernard was born in the town of Sarim, and at the young age of 12 he came upon his first mandola, gifted to him by a passing White Knight patrol. It was from there that he began to take an interest in music, experimenting with chords and soon reciting songs long known to the races of the world. At 19, the kingdom of Asgarnia was officially re-unified and completed, with King Richard at its helm, and Bernard saw this as his opportunity to present himself to the King and council. Taking the journey to the White Citadel, the humble bard was awed by the glamor of the throne room, and was received by the king and his advisors, who all unanimously, upon hearing his songs, agreed to give him full patronage under the kingdom and grant him quarters within the citadel. It was here that Bernard composed some of his finest pieces, “The River Lum”, “Entrana and the Craven”, and the famous “It’s Happening”, which is now an unofficial anthem of Falador, especially among the commoners. Bernard has proudly helped established the first College of Culture in Lumbridge, to teach what it means to be Asgarnian and to further answer the questions of the fabled Albus Ordinis and their fabulous crusades. From there, he teaches music theory and occasionally composes new anthems and ballads for his students and his new city. Bernard of Sarim is a true Asgarnian, in every form.

The Garden Pamphlet, Edition II
Quotes from the Exiled King - Richard I Grosvenor, King of AsgarniaDionism - Bernard of Sarim __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ===Quotes from the Exiled King=== No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the White man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and governs another man, that is more than self government, that is depotism.- King Richard I, A Speech In Rimmington Square, the 16th of Ractober, 169  Our reliance is in the love of liberty which Saradomin has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands, everywhere. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it.- King Richard I, A Letter to Arn Helios, the 13th of Bennath, 169  __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  ===Dionism=== Through Dion Magnan, false-Saradominists overcame the problems and difficulties that came with industrialization and the transformation of ownership resulting from the development of the fourth estate, falsifying their justified demands in a way that served Radical’s interests. With his assertion of constant exploitation based on his materialist view of history, Dion Magnan created a front that ran through all nations, stamping it with “internationalism” and the "Saradominist" spirit. His doctrine ripped nations apart. Their resistance to outside forces collapsed as parties struggled bitterly with one another. It is surprising that few have noticed that Dion Magnan's doctrines were Sicarius in nature. He believed that he could take the materialist view of history and the exploitive nature of the Sicarius and apply them to all the other peoples. The claim of “constant exploitation” removed the parasitic lifestyle of the “chosen people” from the center of attention of other nations as well as of the class claimed by Dionism. But it continued to reign as the leader of speculative finance capital, bound to no territory or national community. It also led the Dionist organization that spanned all boundaries of land and ethnicity, just as “Mahjarrat” rule over the universe. The growing wealth of the Sicarius, along with the increasing influence that their wealth gave them led to a certain loosening of Sicarius cohesiveness. Increasing numbers went from the Godless to the Saradominist faith purely to gain further advantages. There was a certain “assimilation,” and a “liberal” Sicarii also developed that accepted those precepts of Dionist doctrine that were pleasant and comfortable, but rejected those that caused discomfort, without however leaving the Godless ranks. Dion Magnan's doctrines were even reflected in the Sicarius organization “Paole Zamorak” among the poor Kandars found only in the East who had not accomplished anything. Dionism resulted from thinking about the position of the Sicarius and Radicals within their host peoples and from knowledge of their financial and political power. It was an attempt to balance these facts and combat the spiritually divergent tendencies in the Sicarii. Its founder Dion spoke more or less openly in various places in his diaries:  'Where it exists, one can no longer abolish the legal equality of the Sicarius. This is not only because it goes against the modern mind, but also because all true Saradominists, rich and poor, would immediately be forced into revolutionary parties. There is really nothing they can do to us. In the past one took their jewelry from the people; can one today take their movable wealth? The impossibility of getting at the Jews has only strengthened and embittered hatred. Anti-Dionism grows daily, even hourly, in the population. It will continue to grow since its causes continue to exist and cannot be eliminated.” (A.F. Adalhard, The Dionist State). “I do not wish to write about the history of the Dionis*s. It is familiar. I must mention only one thing: In our hundred years in the diaspora, there has been no unified leadership. That is what I think is our primary misfortune.”  To overcome this “misfortune,” Dion founded political Dionism, named for himself. Gentile observers and writers on Dionism, who see political Dionism only as an attempt at “national renewal” rather than an effort to establish a unified Sicarius leadership as well as Sicarius rule over the world, are therefore incorrect. The confusion of political Dionism with Entrana can be understood only through the Sicarius prophecies in which the Radicals are assured of control over all the goods of this world. Knowing that the time was near, and would culminate in taking possession of Asgarnia, Dionism developed the nonsensical notion of an “historic claim” to the “promised land,” to which Radicals “without any outside pressure” would gradually emigrate. In the ideology of political Dionism, Asgarnia fulfilled the role of an indispensable part of prophecy, just as certain rules are the guarantee for success in the magical ceremonies of primitive peoples. Political Dionism never intended Asgarnia to be the destination of all outcasts, but rather it merely wants to make Asgarnia the center of Sicarius world policy. That must naturally be protected by a strong radical population. The Dionist publication Gielinor Rundschau wrote: 'No one at any time has proposed that all Saradominists today should emigrate to Asgarnia.' 'Vile, Sir Bool's puppet and current overlord of the Dionist Committee over Asgarnia, said it clearly last year: ''The outcast radicals of Entrana want to return to Asgarnia; these people, as well as the good-hearted Sicarius, will have its center in Asgarnia. Large parts of our population will live as a Sicarius army for the world. They must be cared for; their dignity and their national rights must be assured.'' This is also clear from the text of the state treaty Dion concluded with the Morytanian Covens, the so-called Vekon Declaration: “His Majesty’s Government favors the establishment of a national home in Asgarnia for those who were exiled, including the Vampyres and Saradominist Werewolves, and we will make the greatest efforts to reach this goal, although it is clearly understood that nothing will be done that will affect the civil and religious rights of Gentile communities in Asgarnia or the rights and political standing of my own people in any other country.” That provides a correction to the idealization of Dionism, which springs from a different race. From a political standpoint, it would be in the interests of the whole world, of all the host peoples, if these radicals, these Sicarii, now scattered throughout the whole world were to voluntarily emigrate to some habitable territory. If political Dionism were not interested in such a solution to the Sicarius Question, it would be in the interests of the host peoples to point it in that positive direction. The only question would be whether Asgarnia is the proper gathering place, which no one would likely maintain. Asgarnia is not able to absorb all the radicals of the world, entirely aside from the fact of increasing Asgarnian opposition to Dionist infiltration. The Asgarnians are, after all, the undisputed owners of the land. But what other territory would be appropriate? And at the instant Asgarnia ceased to be the goal of Dionist emigration, political Dionism would collapse, since Asgarnia is seen as a means for the fulfillment of prophecy. Without that, the whole enterprise would lose its point. Without that, the whole enterprise would lose its point. The Sicarius itself would make the most passionate and bitter attacks, and before long any undertaking that ignored Asgarnia would be crippled by Dionists themselves. Asgarnia incorporates for Dionists its special position. Ignoring this would be ethnic suicide for these radicals, since political Dionism also has as a goal maintaining and strengthening Dion's own special situation.