Inquirer: Delegate, might I have a moment of your time?
Amadeu Moles: Ah? Perhaps, my time is less valuable at the moment than it would ordinarily be--what is it you need?
Inquirer: I'd just like to write up a quick profile of you as one of our honored delegates. Might I have your name?
Amadeu Moles: Amadeu Moles. Elected. I would advise you to be careful who you interview--I can't imagine the Queen isn't going to crack down some on the more inflammatory pamphlets after last night's horror, but I at least would be a safe choice, yes.
Inquirer: I'm relieved to hear it! How have you fared in that dreadful buiness?
Amadeu Moles: Oh, I left the city as soon as Select Wain gave her inflammatory speech. No good was ever going to come of that. I can only pity those who were less fortunate and had no such warning. I returned only when Her Majesty gave the order for delegates to report to the palace to be counted.
Inquirer: How prescient of you! Did you have reason to think you'd be a particular target?
Amadeu Moles: The thing you have to understand about the convention is that it is full of madmen. The Galtan archmage, in his deep republican eccentricity, chose not to filter any of the delegates for such basic traits as sanity, literacy, or even humanity. I of course have nothing to fear from a well-catechized, educated, sensible cleric of Iomedae, but... I'm sure that clericing Valia Wain was a good choice given the unfortunate situation in Pezzack, but it's quite unfortunate that after said situation was resolved she was swept away to the convention before the Church had a chance to mold her into a proper cleric capable of doing more good than harm in any other context.
Inquirer: And, given her state of education, you expected you'd be in danger?
Amadeu Moles: I was unwilling to chance it. Several other delegates far less qualified to be here than the Select Wain had become irretrievably hostile to me, and I was unwilling to wager my life that if they chose to accuse me before the Select that she would be amenable to reason.
Inquirer: So there've been some political daggers drawn even this early in the proceedings?
Amadeu Moles: Oh, certainly.
Inquirer: Might you be able to share some details?
Amadeu Moles: On the very first morning of the convention, one of the monsters the Galtan mistook for appropriate delegates called for mass-murder. Then a Calistrian suborned the Select Wain and set her on a lay-inquisition against the nobility. Then a Hellknight offended a duchess. Then someone beat a thirteen-year-old half to death in one of the committees.
Inquirer: A thirteen-year-old! Someone's assistant, or one of the young noble heirs?
Amadeu Moles: A noble heir, I believe, although I only have the matter secondhand and did not inquire too deeply.
Inquirer: I had heard that the President forbade even dueling; did he have any reaction to the beating?
Amadeu Moles: I suppose he must have! I haven't heard what it was, unfortunately.
Amadeu Moles: But I don't know that he would have been opposed; he seems much more against the concept of respectable persons putting their lessors in their places than in the reverse.
Inquirer: The reverse, as with the call for mass murder?
Amadeu Moles: Precisely.
Inquirer: And when you say a Calistrian "suborned" Select Wain, do you mean you suspect she's enchanted?
Amadeu Moles: No, no--well, I don't have any specific reason to think so--I simply mean that Select Wain, given the Infernal conditions in Pezzack and her role in opposing them, is unusually susceptible to prettily-veiled exhortations of wild vengeance from a priestess of Calistria.
Inquirer: There's at least one other Select delegate, do you know his stance, his relationship to Wain...?
Amadeu Moles: I've heard that he was murdered last night, by the mobs.
Inquirer: Oh no. Can that have been an expected outcome?
Amadeu Moles: I think that when a riot happens, no one person can expect to survive except by not being there.
Inquirer: That's a very sage observation. But circling back to you, where were you elected from? What do you think those who cast their votes for you would think of all this?
Amadeu Moles: I was elected by the communities on the river Adivian, just north of here, to protect their economic interests. I suspect that those who voted for me would be horrified to hear of the unrest and glad that they aren't even closer to Westcrown.
Inquirer: What are the economic interests particular to the region?
Amadeu Moles: Much of the wealth of the region centers on river commerce, particularly in the towns of Westpool and East Rikkan. I think the greatest success I could possibly achieve would be if it were possible to restore the Third Stavian Arch.
Inquirer: Ambitious! Thank you for taking the time to speak with me, Delegate.
Amadeu Moles: You're welcome.