We have all seen the recent posts from the Light and the Caliph
following the events that occurred in the Mhojave and Darkenwood,
unfortunately these posts contain a few... let us call them
misconceptions.

However, of these, I will only address one of them, the most blatantly
glaring and perhaps the most transparent one.

Now, I understand the Light's need to wash its hands of recent defeats.
After all of the struggles they have endured from the West. Who among us
would not desire all the help we could get? Of course, often what one
needs, and what one desires are sometimes in conflict, but perhaps I am
veering a bit off track...

The particular misconception I would like to address though...

A while back Lord Twilight subtly adjusted the connection to Celestia,
just a small bit, for reasons and purposes of His own, this much is
true.

However, as the Light has shown in the past, they do enjoy settings
things ablaze, things they do not understand or agree with, and if at
first they do not succeed, well, they just build the fire bigger. I
would be remiss to say that the recent events have proven to break this
precedent. If nothing else, the destruction of the Obelisk of Darkness
in the Mojave Desert, and the following attack on the Darkenwood
demonstrates the extent of which the Light is willing to embark to
achieve their goals.

Now they will have us all believe, that they only attacked the
Darkenwood because they had been told that the source of their dilemma
was intimately linked to it. Now, I doubt I am the only one that sees a
few inconsistencies with that tale.

Firstly, I have yet to see any concrete evidence of it being in
Darkenwood. Of course, this could easily be explained away by the
mystical nature of the Wood. However, it does bring up my second point;
if they were so certain its origin was in the Darkenwood, why attack the
Obelisk first? Was this just an act of vengeance or dare I say Justice?
Were they lost (albeit most people would probably have taken the lack of
trees and abundance of sand, as a sign they were in the wrong
topographical area)? Or perhaps, and more likely, they had not the
slightest inkling where this link was and hence decided to strike
blindly at any location touched with Darkness. One is lead to wonder
what the third target may have been, had they not been stopped, the
fourth, the fifth? For an ideology that claims to be so fond of
creation, it does tend to exhibit an abundance of destructive
tendencies.

Last and not least, the Light seems distinctly aware of what the forests
means to their allies in Eleusis, yet went ahead with their plans
without so much as a warning or seeking alternative methods, assuming
the link even was in Darkenwood. I wonder what tales they would have
told, if they had not been stopped, and had continued their rampage, but
then it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission is it not?

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Phaestian, in the year 565 AF.