Dearest Dajio,

You say that only those not Free have Freedom within their minds. These are amusing words from one who willingly submits himself to the slavery of the Bloodsworn Gods.

You, like your comrades, live life under penalty of banishment and death for the smallest of transgressions. You fight for a city which is routinely engaged in surveillance of its citizenry, too fearful and paranoid of betrayal or moral lapse. Is this something you can honestly call being free?

You are not able to choose your own path, it is being chosen for you, and you follow it like a blind fool. Mistake not what you are, Dajio. You are no less a slave than the lowest citizen of Mhaldor, simply chained to a different form of oppressor.

This is a slavery you have chosen for yourself, and one that only you can release yourself from. Continue to dream of Freedom, as you aid in the enslavement of others at blade-point. One day, I pray to the Lord, that you will remove the blindfold of the East and see the Light for what it is: an oppressive force, set on slaying all those who will not bend knee to its will.

Open your eyes, and take that first step to freeing yourself. We will be waiting.


Sempai Datrius Esben-Gunnar

Penned by my hand on the 9th of Ero, in the year 655 AF.