I have spent time wondering about whether I should post... another 1,000
gold I'll never see... but still, some things get me *just* angry enough
that I must comment. And Darknight, despite you think you won't care
what anyone says, maybe it will amuse you that I know about your true
self now.

Dear Misguided One,

I was once your friend. If that makes me a fool, which it probably does,
so be it. I spoke with you but one Achaean month ago... I didn't fully
believe what you said, if I did to any extent, but I didn't disregard it
as lies completely because I have not been around long enough to know
everything that goes on. After you were forced from Shallam, and
enemied, I still did not hate you, because I hate little other than
Evil, Darkness, and Chaos, and one who had been a member of Shallam for
so long could have been trusted, or so I thought, for I did not know the
whole story. You were talking about corruption in the Church, Shallam,
and your most recent guild... but whenever I asked about what was
corrupt, you quickly covered it up saying there was too much that
happened to explain in a short time. And, of course, I should have
realised that you were a liar since the time you wrote a letter of
apology to Shallam that *I* told people was sincere; or it seemed so to
me... but mayhap you are very experienced with lying, and the very fact
I supported your rejoining now makes me angry with myself, but
especially you. I have spent time thinking after your post, and I now
feel dirty, as if my essence, my actual soul has been tainted by
trusting you, even to such a small degree, after you were forced and
enemied from Shallam. I should have fully trusted the decisions of my
elders, but as I say, I am generally exceedingly kind and want to know
both sides of the story, unless of course it involves that which I
oppose. I don't know why you would lie to me; nor do I know why you now
lie to the whole of Achaea; and I can only assume it is to convert
others to your proposed clan. Now don't go saying that you have now been
betrayed by me as well, for it is I who have been betrayed by you.
I originally thought that you could have been misguided or something,
but I now see you do what you do for personal gain. I now denounce any
friendship I once had with you, and know that whenever someone utters
the word Darknight or I think of the word Darknight, it will be forever,
in my mind, associated with the words: Liar, Traitor, and Manipulator.
Now, I don't know what anyone else who read this is thinking, but just
if you are wondering, I only talked with Darknight through tells one
time after he was enemied. I never aided him in any of criminal
activities, or agreed that he was right, I was seeking truth and
information. I may have even continued to wonder, but now that your true
self has been revealed there is no need, and now that "the one you
killed in defense of an ally" has told what really happened, and need
not wonder of that either. Also, if anyone can't tell, Darknight isn't
the leader of Shallam, and I doubt that a leader of any city would be
enemied from it. None shall cower in the "wake of your insanity,"
Darknight, for someone will eventually put you in your place, and there
actually ARE those who are smarter than you and know better than you.
The only sufferer of your insanity will be yourself, as it has formed a
burning infected hole in your mind and will spread throughout your being
until there is nothing left but an old man rocking back and forth in a
cold room of rock muttering to himself and lashing out at passerbys.
Shall none follow your path,
Blazer

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Glacian, in the year 309 AF.