The Four Winds

The Four Winds is the name of a newspaper used in world of Daventry.

Issue #2
The courtroom was silent today as Prince Alexander listed Abdul Alhazred's crimes against the crown before the jury. Abdul Alhazred, former vizier to King Caliphim of the Land of the Green Isles, was convicted today on two counts of murder in the first degree, one count of treason, and several lesser crimes stemming from his service to the country. Deliberations lasted only one hour, unusually short for a crime of this magnitude. When the jury announced its verdict, Alhazred merely narrowed his eyes and glared menacingly at each juror. Cheers arose from the gallery, forcing the tribunal to call for order. After the verdict was read, the judge asked Alhazred if he had anything to say. The former vizier turned to Prince Alexander, the prosecuting attorney, and said, “You will rue the day that you crossed Abdul Alhazred. There is no prison that can hold me! One day soon you and all the world will be at my mercy!”

Following Alhazred’s statements, the tribunal announced a sentence of life imprisonment, and ordered Captain Saladin to remove the defendant from the courtroom. King Caliphim and Queen Allaria were relieved that Alahzared was finally brought to justice. “I will certainly be more careful who I appoint vizier in the future,” said the King. “My family and I had little reason to trust Abdul, but thankfully Prince Alexander was insightful enough to recognize the horrible truth.” When pressed for comment, Alexander would only reply “I am overjoyed that the King and Queen can be reunited with their daughter, and that the healing of the Isles can begin.”

FLIMSY DEFENSE Disregarding the old maxim that “a man who represents himself has a fool for a client,” Alhazared served as his own counsel in the proceedings. He argued to the court that he could not be found guilty of murdering two people who were still alive, and that sufficient evidence did not exist to prove that he was conspiring against the crown. He claimed that the gatekeeper from the Land of the Dead, one of the prosecution’s key witnesses, was testifying based on hearsay.

"Alhazared’s main strategy in the trial was to attack the credibility of as many prosecution witnesses as possible."

A jury consisting of many well respected individuals from and Land of the Green Isles was assembled to pass judgement on the former vizier.

Aruments flared as Abdul Alhazred attacked the credibility of the tribunal and the validity of the prosecution's evidence. Alhazared’s main strategy in the trial was to attack the credibility of as many prosecution witnesses as possible. When Alhazared’s former servant, the genie Shameer Shamazel, testified against him, he argued that the testimony was inadmissible, as the genie was under the control of Prince Alexander, who might very well control the genie’s answers. He claimed that Captain Saladin, another witness, once served him willingly, and even helped him detain Princess Cassima in her quarters. The tribunal ruled against all of Alhazared’s objections, finding no validity in any of them. The prosecution methodically laid out its case, calling witnesses from every island of the Land of the Green Isles. Prince Alexander even testified himself, describing a room in the castle to which Alhazared had the key. The room held treasures from all the isles, which Alhazared had taken to create infighting and spread discord across the land. Alhazared argued that Alexander did not have the proper warrant to search his private room, but the tribunal admitted his testimony.


 * Page 3 is missing if anyone has a copy please add it to the topicBaggins 13:29, 20 April 2006 (EDT)

=Real World== The Four Winds was fanfic published by the team of The Silver Lining Team as a kind of prologue to their game. When it was later removed from their site.

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