Kalys.


Short of perhaps one single living soul, it is hard to imagine a more public downfall taking place. While this is well within your rights - the Examiner needs to keep selling copies, after all - it does run the risk of obfuscating the actual matters you seem to wish to address. Given the immense importance of these very boards for historians of every sect and stripe, this seems worth correcting ahead of any future attempts at revisionism.

You are the only person in my long memory to be removed from Eleusis for being too driven by ego for anyone to tolerate. It was a task too tall for a man of such unrivaled brilliance to accept that the Goddess of Nature may in fact know more about Nature than you, and you never were quite able to manage it. You mistook, as others before you have, rabidity for savagery. As others have, you managed to stumble at every opportunity presented, a man seemingly desperate for nothing in this world save a little less rope and a slightly taller stool.

Driven by your certainty that your brilliance knew no bounds, you contested many an election. In each, you were beaten so resoundingly that it gave cause to wonder whether you owed money to the very concept of democracy itself. And rather than take the paths that you were so gently encouraged to take, you found the simpler explanation for your losses; everyone else is a fool, out to get you, jealous of your immense brilliance and transcendent wit.

Assured of this notion with a certainty that would be impressive were it not so misplaced, you lived your life accordingly. And that, after however many dozens of instances of gentle redirection, is what led to your eventual ouster. Nothing more, and nothing less.

It is said by some that the child who does not feel the warmth of a village will burn it to feel the flames; but you were shown every ounce of warmth, of care, of nurture. Perhaps the truer lesson is that some children ought simply be thrown into the flames.


Laiq tsuura,

Sir Aodfionn Wintermourne
A Gaian Knight
Every early choice carries the weight of those that will follow. If the foundation is uneven, the structure will lean, no matter how carefully the upper stones are placed.
The first step should always be taken as if it will be walked again. Because it will be.

Penned by my hand on the 17th of Ero, in the year 994 AF.