Dear Liam,

Although the record of a Great One is beyond the need of mortal defense,
I feel I must do so for the sake of my own consciousness.

Servelan DeVermiis was not a "sanguine" character. Her experiments were
brutal, her tongue was sharp, her arguments cleverly arranging fact and
deception to fit her will. All this, in my opinion, made her a brilliant
scholar, thinker - Occultist. She laid the foundations of thought for
the second age of the Occultist Guild, a shift unmatched until the more
recent trasnfer away from necromancy.

So great was her knowledge, her brilliance, and her aptitude, that she
achieved something ONLY TWO OTHER MORTALS have ever done in the record
of this entire realm - she Ascended, mortal flesh to Divine Fire, and
became the Goddess of Chaos - Eris. If this feat does not make her the
most remarkable Occultist to have ever lived, I do not know what can.
And, personal feelings aside, each member of the Occultist guild holds
in pride her actions, her life, her methods - because that IS what we
stood for. This history may be distasteful to another - but, of course,
that is why the Logos went on to give us the power of free choice as to
what bed we choose to sleep in. (And, following this freedom, the Lady
Eris went on to have many more engaging debates and disagreements with
Lord Sarapis.)

It is my hope that this clarification will dispel anyone's curiosity as
to why the guild holds her - Her - in such high regard.

- Silverstorm Trismegistus

Penned by my hand on the 12th of Glacian, in the year 371 AF.