IMPERIAL & ROYAL ANNOUNCEMENT
It is with the deepest regret that we annouce the passing of our beloved son the Duke of Rossheim-Wladischofen, who died yesterday evening, and our beloved daughter the Duchess of Rossheim-Volksburg, who followed her twin brother in the early hours of this morning. They were both 109 years old.
Adding to our feelings of loss is a profound sense of regret, for our children were brought into this world as a physical expression of our commitment to the peoples of our realm. It was our intention that, when they came of age, they would embrace the unliving state, as we had done, and rule the lands south of the mountains as fellow necrarchs...but that was not to be. Instead, they heeded the call of our kinsperson Sadamara and ascended the imperial throne of Sangun in 4973 ASC, where they reigned worthily, if quietly, for the next fifty-four years. Choosing to remain among the living, by 5027 ASC their unpreserved bodies were beginning to feel the ravages of time, leading to their decision to abdicate the imperial throne and retire to the more modest dominions in which they spent their final decades.
What more can we say about our children, lost to the winds of time, like grains of sand in a gale? Only that we, unaccustomed to mortality, mourn their passing but respect the choices that they made in life. Not for them an eternity of sober, steady, public service; like a pair of shooting stars they blazed brilliantly- but all-too briefly- through the starry skies.
Max
Taishi Emperor of Sangun, King of Leichenberg & etc.