QUOTE:
To his Imperial Highness Smelgar, Protosebastos of the Roman Empire,

Your Imperial Highness, my spies have detected a large Templar fleet on its way towards Jerusalem and at least some of your troops not being anywhere near Constantinople. I therefore take it that the tournament will no longer be held and that the Christian forces intend on putting up a fight for Jerusalem after all.

The Muslim troops were, up to this point, satisfied with razing and pillaging the Christian monasteries and settlements around Jerusalem and had no intention of attacking Jerusalem itself until your tournament would have ended. If that would have been different, than I assure thee that Jerusalem would have been one of the territories to be conquered first.

But given these new circumstances I believe the deal is no longer valid, since you yourself no longer intend on hold on to it.

I therefore wish to inform you that in a few days Jerusalem will burn. Moreover, in anticipation of the Christian resistance to our fair and just rule, the male Christian population will be slaughtered. However, the women and children shall be allowed to leave the city unharmed, to the nearest Christian settlement.

Signed and sealed*

Alar I, Sultan of the Fatimid Islamic Sultanate