Oh dear. Well, that certainly explains why he only gives one surname, and has an archaic accent. (She had more important people to investigate than a resurrected peer who was being wholly reasonable.) She itches to respond, this is the kind of problem she ought to be ideal to fix, but this is the wrong city and she has been far too busy to get any sense of who to push to counter an attack like this. There's no way to make it come out positive... but she can still do the straightforward thing, respond in kind and mitigate it.

"Get a copy of that page for ourselves. Without the smudge. Title it... The Last of Heaven's Sons, Devoted of Iomedae. And send a messenger to his lodgings to check if he wants that copied and distributed, or if he's doing it himself."

He's not allowed to write about it; the Queen and her wizards are watching him. But he's allowed to talk about it. About it, and about the observations of the priest of Iomedae: that the convention is full of unrepentant murderers, that they are forbidden from even voting to expel them; that if anyone is to do anything about it it'll be the people of Cheliax.

Wow, that archduke is old and probably knows all the Ancient Laws.

(Surely, no one seriously thinks Thrunes from that long ago have any connection to recent infamous Thrunes, right?)