In the name of the Marchioness, I, Altea Lomax, Seneschal of Zy-Rodun, do hereby order and declare that the Marquessate and Dominion of Zy-Rodun welcomes sapient beings of all species. The blatant speciesism of the ascendant Kaiser shall not apply within the Dominion, and any person who ends or causes to come to an end the life of a sapient being of any species shall answer to the courts for the high crime of murder.
And I do further declare that this Decree shall take effect immediately.
In witness whereof I have caused this Decree to be made, which I have signed with my hand. Given the twentieth day of Laemill, in the Year of Norton, One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty-four.