Message from Abraha, General to Caleb Hellesthaeus of Axum to Pope Symmachus

Found inside a decomposing leather bag buried in a muddy bank within a cave beneath the Propontis, laying beside rusted armor and sword. Also contained in the bag was Orders to Stop Sheenie Dhu Nuwas.

[Written in Greek]

   Abraha, General of His Most Glorious Emperor Caleb Hellesthaeus of Axum, to His
   Holiness Papa Symmachus, Episcopus Romanus, greetings!
   
   Your holiness is perhaps aware that the Jew Joseph Dunuas has usurped the throne of 
   Himiara and has been assiduously persecuting our Christian brethren, culminating in the 
   infamous massacre in Nairan and the even bloodier and more bloodthirsty massacre of
   3,000 Axumites at Zaphara; and that, not content to let blood flow throughout his own
   kingdom, has been alternately begging or demandmg that the Arabs and Persians follow suit.
   The pagan Arabs, especially the Koreis of Mekia, have been very receptive, and more
   about them later; however, the Arabs of Alira, who long have been a friend to the
   Christians, being exceptionally learned and the creators, or rediscoverers as they would
   have it, of the curious writing of the Arabs, passed Dunuas' petition on to the Roman
   Emperor Justin, and the Christian lands of the north were made aware of what we in the
   south had already learned, that a veritable anti-Christ sought to raise the world against
   the Lamb of God.
   
   Iustinus Basileus and Imperator responded with the alacrity befitting a hoary and 
   sagacious Christian ruler, and sent a fleet from Alexandria to help the Christian forces 
   of Axum. Insofar as these two mighty empires are united against a petty king, there is little 
   for you, or us, to fear. But there is another matter, which, Your Holiness may perceive, 
   factors in...
   
   The pagan Arabs of Mekia, it may have reached Your Holiness's attention,worship a black 
   stone harvested millennia ago from the rubble of Babel, a stone of great power and 
   properly a biblical relic, but believed to be the god Kronos by the benighted Arabs.
   This idol fills me with an especial distaste, for the idolaters have housed it in a most 
   ancient church of the Lord, built over a well by my holy namesake; and notwithstanding the 
   ignorance of the Koreis of the true provenance of the stone, it is an item of great power 
   and danger, and should the Koreis decide to join with Dunuas, or should any enemy of 
   Christendom possess the stone, may the Lord have mercy on his children! However, I have 
   heard from the sailors of the Basilesus that Your Holiness possesses another fragment of 
   Babel, and not one of the innumerable detritus fragments one sees lying around, but a true 
   piece, in which lies power. It was brought to Rome in the times of ignorance under the 
   guise of the pagan goddess Meteroreie, in time to defeat Hannibal, and the Romans were 
   thereafter unopposable in battle. 
   
   Although this humble general can hardly command the successor of Peter, and it would be 
   unseemly for a subject of the mighty Hellesthaeus to beg, perhaps Your Holiness can see 
   that it might be in his best interest to see that the stone that is in Christian hands 
   prevents the stone that is in pagan hands from being brought into play. This might be the 
   time when the Christian nations have a chance of finally displacing the idolaters; the 
   chance lies with you.
   
   I remain,
   Your obedient servant,
   Abraha
   
   PS: Down the schismatics!