SPEECH

<font color=ffd236>"It is nice to see that you have all gathered here, as I requested."</font> Eagleheart stops, for just a few brief seconds. He seems to think of  a way to speak, however, but it never comes. Shaking his head from side to side, the man moves a hand to remove the mask carefully.

A soft chime seems to encompass him, rosy lips curled to a smile revealed as the porcelain is slowly put to the side, his own hood removed. Silvery-blue irises stare directly forward, although seemingly trying to follow the sound of his own orderly aura, but still lost in their own way. Perhaps he was blind, or at least, he looked like he was. There was no reaction to any sources of light, no blinking to the flickering of torches, simply a stare which followed the sound.

<font color=ffd236>"I do not like doing this, but it is something that I've found closely tied to my role in this settlement the more I talked with its people. It was requested of me, and I couldn't deny it."</font> A brief pause, before the blind man sighs. He then continues on. <font color=ffd236>"For these, and for what I believe to be right, I am in charge of the Huangzhou's military head along the Lord Regent's political decisions. Side by side in this ruling of two, honoring the creation of Huangzhou as intended by its six founding members."

"I do not intend to contest the position of Shu as Lord Regent, and all political arrangements shall remain on her side. Her power remains unanimous, but under consulting and request of some, I am taking the position of Shogun to stop it from being dissolved, as well as taking the head of an inevitable escalation of the current warring state we find ourselves with Gaiar Aetherius. Any political matters will still be largely founded in Shu's blessed guidance, whereas my position as Shogun will ensure that the intent of the two positions made upon the creation of the settlement, namely Ikkaku Ukitake as Lord Regent and Ming Xiao as Shogun, remains properly honored, with me organizing the military tactics on battles to come instead of overloading Shu."</font>

He stops, after the long-winded speech, and tugging the mask under his arm, raises his right hand, a prosthetic made of mythril. <font color=ffd236>"It is an oath that I have taken long ago, and one that I take again now, on the grounds that the city I helped found stands. No matter what, I, Angelo Sanguinis, am here to serve, and I am here to help every single one of you."

"Glorious be the Emperor."</font> He finishes off, standing stalwart in front of everyone. The mask truly hid most of his emotions, but the man that stood in front of everyone wasn't the same one that so often was taken for a statue. Instead, what showed on him was his sheer determinated gaze, resting upon the very horizon.