To our estranged brothers in Lastwall:

For eight hundred years, my family served the goddess. My grandfather knew her worship. I know only the hole that was left when he removed Her. He did, in doing, save the flesh of Menador, but he forfeited its soul. I ask your help in restoring it. Send us Iomedae's counsel, and we will follow it, as far as we can. Things are not so dire here as they are in the South, but this says more about Egorian than it does about Kantaria. 

I do not ask for powerful men of rank or status, who should be occupied with slaying violent threats. We can handle these ourselves. Only send us teachers, advisors, and priests. Paladins too old to swing a sword, if any can be spared. Give us men of wisdom and experience, to teach us the lessons our fathers could not. I ask for at least four Select of the goddess, to be stationed across Menador and to advise our nobles directly. Beyond these, we will also gratefully accept anyone in good standing with the Church of Lastwall who is prepared to assist with the project of rebuilding the region.

We have no gold to pay for this service, but can relinquish twenty souls for each select, and five for every other man you send, up to five hundred souls.

In addition, I am prepared to restore the lands of any Menadorian families who fled to Lastwall during the civil war, under the terms their ancestors enjoyed before it. No written records of these families exist in Menador; we must rely on your records, and on the long memories of Menador's dwarves, to confirm these claims. But if any can be confirmed, we will return what was unjustly taken from them.

We await your quick response.

- Ignasi Alfonso Proelera Narikopolus de Kantaria, Archduke of Menador

One might think that with the worldwound closed, Tar-Baphon's escape attempt foiled, and infernal Cheliax overthrown, Lastwall would have a lot less on its plate and a lot of spare manpower. However, to imagine that is to fundamentally misunderstand Lastwall and the position it is in. The worldwound is closed? Yes, but there are still demons within the wardstone border, demons driven by the desperation of having no home to retreat to; meanwhile Mendev has called a halt to new conscription, Cheliax drew down their fort garrisons to support the infernal war effort and the new government never replenished them, Crusader's Fort had two-thirds of its volunteers leave and has gotten no new ones in the last year -- At the worldwound, Lastwall has more, not less, to do. Tar-Baphon's escape attempt was foiled? But how, besides the complicity of the Thrune regime, did the Tyrant get to a point where he could make such an attempt in the first place? Gallowspire needs additional patrols, investigations must be launched to find the remnants of the whispering way cells and urgathoa cults which aided the attempts, an internal review is needed, in case there were steps Iomedae's church could have taken to notice and thwart it sooner. In Ustalav, too, Lastwall has more and not less to do. Infernal Cheliax has fallen? Well, Lastwall was officially not doing anything about infernal Cheliax. Unofficially - well, looking at the number of resignations on the first day of the war, one would be a bit of a fool to think it increased Lastwall's available manpower.

If all that weren't bad enough, (from a staffing perspective) the Goddess seems to share that fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of Her state. A grand total of zero new clerics and paladins were empowered from the graduating divinity class of 4713. (Senior members of Lastwall's leadership know that the Goddess was saving Heaven's intervention budget, and have some hints about what for, but that information is a little bit too classified for the staff officers trying to find four of the Select that can be peeled away from their existing duties to go teach the people of Menador about basic human decency)

In the end Menador gets half-a-dozen young adults who might've been selected by the Goddess if she weren't busy with other planets or something, one actual Select who's barely older, a score of scholars and theologians, and a letter apologizing for their lack of available people and yes please they would very much appreciate one or two hundred more able-bodied men at the worldwound, assuming charitably and wishfully that that's what was meant by "relinquish... up to five hundred souls." If the Archduke meant the other thing then they can defer payment until after he's had some instruction in how to be a good person.

That's obviously not what he meant when he wrote it, but given his ratio of metal currency to able-bodied men, he'll just go ahead and pretend it was. Menador is never safe, but it's calm enough now to spare two hundred men for the worldwound. He'll make it three hundred, and send one of his sons with them, even though the math on what he's gotten from Lastwall comes out to half that. Probably it'll be good for them, and go some way in demonstrating his desire for friendship.

The Select and a few of the theologians can join him in Kantaria, since it's both where he personally wants them and the second-largest settlement in the region. Hopefully Taggun Hold can find an Erastilian under a rock somewhere, since they're otherwise fresh out of known clerics of any kind.