[X] [Motion] Phokion's Amendment. The Xenoparakletor will have one deputy chosen at their leisure and approved by the Popular Tribunal.
[X] [Missions] Flexible diplomacy prioritizing breadth and the ability to address multiple issues over focus. [2 missions from winning Demos, then ability to choose 1 more from the losing slates per term].
[X] [Oligarchs] Kymai must be made anew and bury old hatreds [+400 Kymaians go to Nea Kymai, city may have more wealth and political conflict in early years].
[X] [Prophecy] A Sapling of Wood, growing in a primordial forest looming over waves lashing the crags of a rocky coast [+1000 Kymaians go to Nea Kymai, Sibyl will go Nea Kymai, Nea Kymai will become a new center of the Divine Marriage].
[X] [Oaths] Make Melaina Kerkyra and Epidauros swear oaths to the Divine Marriage [Cities will be unhappy but Epulian League oath will be preserved].
[X] [Lands] Grant additional lands to Melaina Kerkyra and Epidauros [Both cities will be granted new lands by Eretria and grow in population, both will be very happy].
"I stand by my earlier proposal regarding the deputy xenoparakletor. The office already exists, so let us fill it. The oversight of the Popular Tribunal will insure talented members of a demoi will be chosen, if there is no coalition of demes in place. In this way we can avoid the risks of divergent interests sabotaging the conduct of our foreign affairs. But as for the matter of the nature of our policy I favor our current system. It has proven useful to us in allowing the city to address a wider range of problems. This flexibility allows us to intervene before a problem becomes a crisis, even if it does not allow us to solve all the problems that face us. But if to seize an opportunity with one hand is inferior to seizing with both, it is still better than doing nothing and allowing it to flee. And we should not forget that this system has contributed to the stability of our policy by offering a means whereby the losing demes may yet advance their interests.
But aside from the citizen motion there is another, far graver matter before us. The future of the Sibyl of Kymai is a trust given to us by Apollon himself. We dare not betray that trust or act from base motives. And in that regard I believe it right and proper for the Sibyl to accompany her polis in its relocation. It was Kymai that nurtured and defended the Sibyl, so that it might grow so renowned. It was Kymai that Apollon blessed with her presence in the first place. And if Kymai is a child of Old Eretria then it would not be fitting to take from them. A parent does not inherit from a child, for such is unnatural and against the way of the world. So should we demur in humility and understanding and allow the Sibyl to take root in Nea Kymai as she once did in Old Kymai. As the worship of the Divine Marriage spreads so will Apollon and Athene bless us for our service to their Oracle.
However I know men are swayed by interest as much or more than morality. And I believe it is in our interest that the Oracle of the Sibyl, of the Divine Marriage, be established in Nea Kymai. It will immediately insure the prominence of the Divine Marriage among the citizens of Nea Kymai, where previously they had been reluctant to acknowledge it. This will bind them to our League in addition to our generosity. Furthermore such a powerful influence will surely establish the marriage among Melaina Kerkyra and Epidauros, who enter our League mostly ignorant of the Divine Marriage. In such a way we can insure that the southern Adriatic becomes tied to our polis as the home of the Divine Marriage, and we will come to share similar customs and oaths. But there is another, greater opportunity.
At one time the Divine Marriage spread rapidly through Sicily. The Sicilian metics that our fathers wisely allowed to find sanctuary in our city adopted our practice and spread it to their Ionian brothers at home. It was a means of resistance to the tyranny of Gelo and the hubris of Syrakouse to set up mercenaries as a settler class over citizens. The Divine Marriage was itself married to a manful resistance to tyranny, oligarchy, and mercenary rule; it was the symbol of a mature demokratia that, as Eretria has done, resolved conflicts between classes and orders to advance the common good. Now to our southeast, in Hellas proper, we see great instability and the abandonment of sacred custom in favor of brutality and conquest of other Hellenes. There is an opportunity to establish the Divine Marriage in Hellas itself as an alternative to the Spartan oligarchy and the tyranny that Athens is pursuing over its Delian League.
We see to our immediate concern the city of Epidamnos. They were good friends to our fathers, and owed their democracy to our example rather than conquest or coup. Now they labor under the yoke of Corinth. Their oligarchy will grow more unstable by the day as their trade is cut off by Athens. Perhaps the time will come soon for the people of Epidamnos to reclaim their freedom, inspired now by the Sibyl bringing the Divine Marriage to the far side of the Adriatic. And perhaps we might even see Kerkyra, reduced from a proud equal to a prostrate tributary, seek again to reclaim its pride and dignity. We know the Divine Marriage aided the Sicilians in doing so, and we might very well hope the same for these people we have reason to wish freedom for. And perhaps having secured their freedom with the blessings of Apollon and Athene, they will look to the home of the Divine Marriage for further guidance and protection.
But the Divine Marriage is not a cult of Eretria. It is a truth of the divine and an independent Oracle will help establish it as such. And the success spreading word and belief in the Marriage in these trying times will grant it respectability in Hellas proper. Colonists coming to the Adriatic on the far side will have heard of the Marriage already from the famed Sibyl. They will come having already bought in to the common ethos of the League without our having to specially recruit them. That, I believe, will be the greater good than to keep the Divine Marriage for ourselves.
Naturally it follows that we should retain our oaths to the Divine Marriage for the good of our League. But we are generous and moderate in our leadership and so should allow the Melaina Kerkyrans and Epidaurans to settle territory we have not done so already. They will see their prosperity comes from the League and from the Divine Marriage and will be tied closer to us despite their early ignorance of our customs. I do not think this is a matter of controversy for it is an obvious good.
But for the oligarchs of Kymai we are somewhat split over. I feel it best to allow them to come. Perhaps it will take time for Nea Kymai to reach the accord of classes that our city did so quickly after the Founding. But they will, with our example to guide them. And we need for all Hellas to see that this is possible. For the Spartans and Athenians have taken to resolving their political disputes with impious bloodshed within the community and against others within their power. We should demonstrate our superior arete and rebuke them for their brutality with an example of new accord built in a new frontier. This will enhance the prestige of our Epulian League and perhaps guide Athens away from its terrible path of late; but in any case the gods will reward righteousness and punish violations of their laws however long it takes for justice to be done."
