Dark Salutations,

You're correct that I may have mildly twisted some words and in so doing may have misled others. I only hope this post shall rectify such.

Centuries of Nature's rhetoric, even of Goddesses that no longer exist, stress a single driving point: to live in harmony with nature.

It is therefore ironic for an authority on Nature itself claim that there is ultimately no such harmony, that we are all but a plague in need of a cure. Irony is often amusing, and so I truly believe some would find amusement in his words.

As a daughter of Darkness, what was amusing to me is that he would deliver such a jewel, for few spiritual leaders ever dare admit the ire their Lords or Ladies may hold for us mortals. It rather goes against the message. Well... naturally, not my message, and hence my amusement.



I do not think I've twisted his words in the least, though he is free to correct me, and as a scholar, I shall appreciate his doing so. In fact, I think it is you who has done so with your own post. He calls us a plague that needs to be cured. Were a plague to reach Eleusis, would you allow one or two to suffer in perpetuity so that it does not go extinct? I do not think you would, unless your Goddess willed it.

I also do not think all of Eleusis, or even a great number of Eleusians truly believe his words. After all, only the mad would want to damn all mortalkind to a merely slower death, indeed only so that they can successfully enact such total extinction in the first place. This kind of rhetoric belonged to a wrathful Slith, and I seem to recall most Eleusians in vocal opposition to it at the time. I do not think this is some Eleusian secret hidden from the world that he has chosen to reveal, but it may be a secret of Nature hidden from Eleusis, though that itself is mere speculation on my part.

After all, you are the Speaker, and thus it is your role to manage Eleusis, and you are more likely to represent its views, tainted as they are by his plague. On the other hand, he is the High Warden, and thus it is among his role's responsibilities to act as Nature's agent to ensure the impure do not abuse its powers, and thus he is more likely to represent Nature itself.

I do not know the inner politics of Eleusis or of Nature as a whole, but as an outsider, I would vastly trust his word over yours on matters of Nature.



I yet owe a correction, however, for I may have misled some. Although I'm indeed amused by his actions, his words themselves did not amuse me in the least, and I do apologize if I've led anyone to believe that I found them funny.

I am in fact furious that he would include my kind, born from Nature as they were, even implicitly as he has so unthinkingly done, in his doomsday theories. This sort of thoughtless treachery from an Eleusian is nothing new, however.

I still recall the day you yourself deemed the whole of Actar suitable to burn, a location notably frequented by nymphs both of wood and water. Fortunately, an Eleusian less decorated than yourself and the Seneschal of Hashan herself both disagreed with you. Even now, your conquest has taken the forest that Queen Titania herself advised my kin to live in, and though I have chosen instead to live in Darkness, I do not think I shall forgive you for this.

Truly, if you wish to know what I personally think, I think your so-called village is a mistake that yet needs correcting.

Penned by my hand on the 20th of Miraman, in the year 940 AF.