QUOTE:
To Izajah, current ruler of the Papal States,

Your Grace, forgive me for perhaps not addressing thee properly, but because of the sudden change of leadership in Rome I am unaware whether a Pope still exists or your Grace acts as the intermarry leadership of Rome.

The reason for which I decided to send this letter to Rome is the fact that Johannes I, the Patriarch of Rome, seems to have vanished, at least that what my informants told me. I am not sure whether the other royal Christian courts were informed of this unfortunate event, but Moscow certainly was not, which is why I must kindly ask your Grace's forgiveness for procuring this information through unofficial ways.

Therefore, may I ask your Grace where has his Eminence Johannes I vanished? Was he the victim of an assassination? Or was he kidnapped? Or perhaps the plague has taken his Eminence...

I wait for thy answer.

Respectfully,

Alar I, Grand Prince of the Principality of Smolensk Rus