Hear now the words of Select Valia Wain, chosen and favored of Iomedae, as she herself proclaimed that at her trial:

The virtue of the people of Pezzack is that they know they are free. They know it even when the armies of the enemy are bearing down on them. They know it even when they are dragged through the city to the site of their execution. A person cannot be threatened, if they have decided already that the worst that can be done to them does not frighten them. They know that they obey their rulers because their rulers are just, and that if their rulers were not just they would obey them no longer. They think "I obey Iomedae because she sees farther than I, across the great battlefield," instead of "I obey Iomedae because she is a god and I am nothing besides a god." They laugh in the face of Asmodeus, because he has nothing to offer but threats. They hear the Queen's speech and they think if it is a sensible speech or not, because they might leave and go somewhere else if they don't think much of the sense of the Queen.

Do not fear to read and consider these words, for Select Wain has been found innocent of all the spurious charges brought against her, by the generosity and wisdom of our Queen. There is no treason in her heart, no sedition on her lips. When she speaks, it is with the virtue of Heaven, brought down at long last to Cheliax.

I do not wish, of course, for any man to rise up against those rulers appointed by the Queen. The Queen is good and just, and so too are the men she has selected to rule; to call for men to rise up against just rulers is anarchism, not goodness. 

But should there come a day when the forces of Hell once more wrest control of our country from the Queen, when wicked men once more rule over every man in Cheliax, when Asmodeus once more wishes to sink his claws into the heart of even the smallest children, I hope that all shall listen. Do not fear your death — for what is death compared to an eternity of suffering for collaborating with Hell? Do not offer your obedience — for what right has a man to command you, when he has enlisted himself in the armies of Asmodeus? 

This is the will of Iomedae and of our Queen — but more importantly, it is the will of your own conscience, which calls even the meekest subject of Cheliax towards virtue.