Border Princes Announcement: Imperial-Bretonnian Crusade Declared!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! 

Let it Henceforth Be Known in This, the Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixteenth Year Since the Crowning of Sigmar Heldenhammer as Emperor, and One Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty-Eight Years Since The Formation of the Kingdom and Duchies of Bretonnia by Gilles the Uniter, A Crusade Has Been Called to Cleanse Evil from the Border Princes in Order to Reclaim the Glory and Territories Won in Days of Yore When a Mighty Host of Knights Errant and Imperial Knightly Orders Set Forth for Araby Overland but Instead Drove Orcs and Goblins and Worse from the Land and Beyond the Blood River!

Here Below Shall Be Found the Terms, Rules, Conditions and Stipulationsof the Alliance Which Constitutes the Above-said Crusade in the Border Princes: 

1. Imperial Nobles Shall NOT Taunt, Tease, or Otherwise Slander Those Bretonnian Knights Who Have Not Yet Learned to Read or Write

2. Bretonnian Knights Shall NOT Taunt, Tease, or Otherwise Slander Imperial Knights and Nobles for Their Use of Blackpowder Weapons.

3. Both Bretonnians and Men of the Empire Shall NOT Engage In Idle and Dangerous Speculations as to Who Would Prevail in a Fair Battle Between Sigmar Heldenhammer and Gilles the Uniter, or Between His Most Imperial Highness Emperor Karl-Franz Ist von Holswig-Schliestein or His Most Royal Majesty King Louen Leoncouer.

4. Men of the Empire Shall NOT Behave in a Manner that is Lewd, Unseemly, Uncouth, Villainous or Discourteous in the Presence of Damsels, NOR Shall They Speak in a Manner that is Lewd, Unseemly, Uncouth, Villainous or Discourteous in the Presence of Damsels, NOR Shall Common Men of the Empire Who Look or Sound or Smell Vile Appear in the Presence of Said Damsels.

5. Bretonnian Knights Shall NOT Allow Their Jesters, Jongleurs and Troubadours to Roam Unsupervised Amongst Imperial Encampments Lest They Cause Mischief With Their Jests and Taunts or Sap Fighting Spirit With Their Lengthy and Tedious Chansons.

6. Men of the Empire Shall NOT Presume to Give Orders to Bretonnian Knights, Break Bread with Bretonnian Knights, Speak to Bretonnian Knights or Even Remain in the Near Presence of Bretonnian Knights Unless They Be Possessed of a True Title and Ancient Lineage Or Unless Expressly Invited to Do So.

7. Bretonnian Knights Shall NOT Force Free Men of the Empire to Become Vassals, Serfs, or Peasants and Thereby Deprive Them of their Freedom.   

8. The Men of the Empire Shall NOT Taunt, Tease, or Otherwise Slander Bretonnian Knights by Likening the Liveries of Bretonnian Knights to the Gowns and Dresses of Womenfolk.

9. Bretonnian Knights Shall NOT Wipe Their Hands in the Hair of Common Men of the Empire as is Their Custom with the Bretonnian Lowborn.

10. Bretonnian Knights Shall NOT be Required to Operate, Touch, or Even Be Anywhere in the Vicinity of Blackpowder Gunnes, Including but Not Limited to Great Cannons, Mortars, Rocket Batteries, Volley Gunnes and Steam Tanks.

11. Bretonnians Shall NOT Taunt, Tease, or Otherwise Slander The Men of the Empire Concerning Their Extravagant Moustaches, Nor Shall They Pull, Twist, or Otherwise Interfere With Said Moustaches.

Damsels of the Lady Shall NOT Be Burned at the Stake as Witches by Warrior-Priests, Witch Hunters, Flagellants, Zealots, or Any Other Men of the Empire.

12. Damsels of the Lady Shall NOT Transform Male Wizards of the Imperial Colleges of Magic Into Toads, Newts, Voles, or Any Other Form to Which Said Wizards Are Unaccustomed and Do Not Desire.

Male Wizards of the Empire Shall NOT Act in a Manner That May be Construed as Self-Righteous, Pompous, Inflexible or Irascible. 

13. Knights of Bretonnia Shall NOT Redistribute the Victuals, Lodgings, Ale, Wages, or Potions, Dressings and Poultices (Etcetera, Etcetera) from the Common Men of the Empire to Bretonnian Horses, Hunting Dogs, Hawks or Falcons as they Might Redistribute the Said Victuals, Lodgings, Ale, Wages, or Potions of Their Own Peasantry.

14. Commanders of the Empire Shall NOT Order Knights of Bretonnia to Withdraw or Flee from the Field of Battle in a Manner that Is Unseemly, Unchivalrous or Dishonourable.

15. Bretonnian Knights Shall Endeavor NOT to Ride Down Imperial State Troops in Their Reckless and Hasty Desire to Engage the Enemy, as Has Occurred with Bretonnian Lowborn in Past Battles.

16. Imperial Artillery Shall NOT Risk Firing Upon Bretonnian Knights in Close Combat with an Enemy, Regardless of the Tactical Advantages Deemed Associated with Such Actions.

17. Further Conditions, Terms, Rules and Stipulations Concerning Minutia That Are Relatively Insignificant, Tedious, Unclear or Not of Clear Immediate or Present Need Shall Be Resolved at a Later Date by an As Yet Unspecified Method, Including but not Limited to Whether Or Not the Reclaimed Border Princes Should Swear Fealty to the Bretonnian Crown or Be Annexed to the Empire of Sigmar, Whether Malko and Aldium and the Right to Tax Trade Along the Silk Road Rightly Reside in the Empire of Sigmar or the Crown of Bretonnia, What Duration This Treaty is to Last and Under Which Conditions it May Be Considered Null and Void, and Other Such Trifles.