Time, cycles, and timelines are of stranger phenomenas that throughout the eras and ages I have thoroughly convinced myself that I may never actually be able to fully understand them to their fullest content. Like the once ever-changing world around me, it seems that I cannot keep up, it seems that I was never meant to keep up, it seems that the changes that plague me and my every action are of some unavoidable law, or unavoidable fate that has been set in stone, long before I had even come into existence. In essence, during these strange times of the end, impossibilities have found their way into these scapes, somehow seeping through the already fractured timeline, and now bringing about more chaos than I could ever imagine. Every now and then, or perhaps every advent or so, these Fates return something, the waves and seas that once devoured all that I knew, spit something out – returning it fractured, damaged, different – never to be the same again. Something that since the exile, has been nothing but a tale, a dream, a legend – that has somehow returned.
You were what the times had stolen from me, a punishment that came alongside the arrival of echoes and shadows, that soon followed the exile. You were the ultimate repercussion of the moment my eyes started to dim from life, the moment I decided to take a rest. Since that time, the path that I have forged has spiraled out of control, from manipulating lines to stumbling across these great scapes, and now to reaching towards the hands that reach downwards from above – I have taken many twists and turns that would likely not have been formed if not for your fading. Before your time, and before ours, I knew that I was always destined to reach the dark, to embrace it in its entirety, to let it consume me – what I did not know however is that a catalyst must be in that place, and the times have long since shown me that you were that catalyst.
From the eyes that I envision with now, it is hard for me to see anything but a sickness, seething from the Lords that reside above. Those who seek to keep balance over this place, those who seek to avidly work towards filling the endless voids that spread across the many scapes, realms, and lines, those who never truly forgot who they are – those who continue to see us suffering, but simply turn away. In many words you spoke is where my heart ceased to function, the context of what you meant, is where my reality of old shattered. For not only have you brought upon the first of the Final fates that await me, but also unlocked the gates of the Shadows that reside across this place, ultimately bringing about the Last Days that I’ve dreamed about for ages.
My heart will always hold higher love for you, and my mind will always long for you. This is the curse that I have brought upon myself in contracts that I know were always meant to be, but perhaps my greatest downfall. Unlike those who move across their choices and these scapes with great haste, smoothly evading the bumps and crevices which meet the edge of their very soles, I tend to stumble and struggle onwards, with the very choices of decisions I made plaguing me until closure is met. For me, it is not as simple as moving onto a new age, it is not as simple as forgetting, it is more a matter of healing, redefining, or ultimately – rebirth.
You were the greatest of what I once lost, and though I know those times will never be restored, I can only hold gratefulness in my heart that the everything that I knew still breathes, still remembers, still lives to this day. But while yes, while my heart will continue it’s yearning for all that you are, whilst my mind knowing that it will never be, and my soul, having long since accepted and known of this Fate – you will surely take the backseat during these end times, and you shall see the very outcome of all that has stemmed from this madness, you will see of what will become of these stormlands, and you will witness the very arrival of the last of these Fates. Even in death, this connection will truly never be severed. For the strings of every person I have ever met, will be met with souls I have known for an eternity, it is in this one, true knowing that I have come to realize that what we have come to experience till this very day is now all that we have experienced, that we once extended long beyond the Cavern walls, the barren Plains, and towering Castles – our story started before all of it. In a way, it is a legend, one that will likely continue as these Shadows surely march upon us all and wage their final attack as we lose grip of the day and seep quietly into the darkest of nights. For while much was lost on that day the echoes washed away all I once knew, you, the shining force beyond all that I once knew, and all that came to be, were destined to be the legend that would return.