Lady Mercia, this is Cameron Cameiron, subject of the house of Greenhilt. I wish to share my own findings here, of what happened to me in Muenier, in the hopes that we can start making sense of what's happening.

Upon my arrival to the city, I found myself reminiscing upon an incident that I'd never experienced, of someone like myself, if born a Hume, acting irrationally because of a perceived slight regarding their name. This memory of mine revealed that I punched what I believed to be military police of some kind, shouting that "Kamille is a man's name, and I'm a man". The memory ended with me fighting and losing to the mp and his allies, but it filled me with... anger isn't the right word, indignation, perhaps? It certainly acted as fuel to my actions fighting those beasts.

Speaking of that, I've taken apart the weapon that came into my possession that day, and aside from a rather intriguing loading mechanism, it doesn't actually seem to be all that different from any other pistol. Were it not for the circumstances of its appearance, I would doubt that it actually had origins of magickal nature. What makes no sense to me is why this gun was able to break through the monster's barrier when my own magicks and weapons couldn't.

... There is also something else. Since that time, I find myself reacting faster to aggression than I used to, like I could witness it before it even happened, and act accordingly. I can hit moving targets more easily now, dodge attacks before my enemies start to make them. I'm only barely aware of it, but this sixth sense was what helped me to fire the gun the first time.

It's more advanced than what anyone has, Liciaen or Dalvarus. The weapon itself isn't much stronger than a standard revolver, and has less range than a Dalvarian musket, but it beats out both of them through the sheer number of bullets it can fire. More over, judging by the make, the pistol may be a mass-production model, meaning that wherever it was from, it was a common weapon, and it's cartridge-based loading system is very much the norm.

Right now I've been busying myself by reproducing bullets with what I have on hand. Hopefully they will have the same effect should I ever encounter those fiends again.

I've considered it, initially, but the cons outweigh the pros considerably.

Liciae would need to recruit a conspicuous number of the neutral machinist guilds for mass-production, which would draw Dalvaran attention.

The facilities in the kingdom would need considerable overhaul to manufacture the necessary components and to machine the pieces together, which would come at great cost to our economy.

This kind of weapon requires absolutely no skill to wield effectively, if it were mass-produced, they could easily fall into the hands of unsavory fellows who could use them to kill people at their leisure with but a pull of the trigger.

But my most immediate concern is that I have no way of knowing that duplicates would work on those... things. What would happen if they were to show up again, and people armed with these guns came running, firing to no effect and getting killed for their trouble?

I can't have that on my conscience, Lady Mercia.