Your Radiance,

We have heard that you are a blunt woman in the privacy of company, so we will spare you the exonerations.

You have gone to great but ineffective efforts to curtail the actions of your son, lessening the respect Dorne has abroad, and have failed to prevent him igniting yet another war against the Storm. None suffered more than House Santagar in the War at Red Mountain, and our wound bleeds still with the continuing captivity of Perros Santagar. We reached out to you for support, and you asked Lord Allyrion to find us a solution. He has failed. All that remains are demands - the demands that we ask permission to leave our own borders, that we send men to fight in another war.

My Uncle, High Captain Bors Santagar, may continue to serve on your council if he so wishes. We wish him well the task, considering what we hear of your temperament in those sessions. Beyond this, House Santagar declares you in fault of your duties as liege. As such you will receive none of ours to fight in your wars, and we shall not pay any of your imposed taxes. Any members of your House that approach Spottswood without an invitation will be rejected out of hand unless they bear a flag of Parley.

This is not a rebellion, Your Radiance. House Spottswood are not traitors. We have been loyal to your house since our ancestors threw the Rosette Axe into the sea and knelt before you six centuries ago. But the Red Mountain War caused such horrendous suffering to our family. With another on the horizon, so soon after the last, we are forced to conclude; even everlasting loyalty has it's limits.

We request that you make efforts to restore relations by arranging for a prisoner exchange for our cousin Perros, by whichever of the Stormlanders that are present in Sunspear that you prefer. We request that Casella Santagar be allowed to return to Spottswood, and be held under no punishment the incident in Sunspear.

We eagerly await word of your reply, and hope that our loyalty will not be forgetten so easily as it was in the 31st Year of your Reign, Your Radiance.

Ser Lywen Santagar, Knight of the Spottswood