Let me preface this by saying that the delete is only due to real world conflicts. I accepted a promotion at work that is taking up way more of my time than I anticipated. I hung on thinking this would lessen but every time it did another project would come up and cut into my free time again. Couple this with logins consisting purely of retrieving the Scepter or trying to scrape together preps (black was in a very bad spot for a very long time for a character with few allies) and when the game began to feel like a grind as opposed to an escape I knew it was time to move on.

With all that being said it was still the toughest delete I've ever pulled. Az lived over 5 months and 550+ hours and it was likely my best effort in terms of rp. I highly recommend anyone curious read the role in its entirety. I set out to play a sphere deception character who exemplified the sphere in complex ways as opposed to say, going to the Fort and faking interest in salvation while waiting for someone to come gang the Maran or lying to people about flags, etc. I was successful in this in many ways. Some were obvious and manifested through in-game campaigns. Others were possibly never noticed and made the desired affect. Looking back on Aztezul I think that pleases me the most.

There's too many people to thank and recall but:

Morius: I set out from day one with Aztezul with two goals in mind 1) Bring back Scion and 2) Make tribunal an engaging and fun cabal outside it's usual comfort zone. The wars I waged, the actions i took, were all designed to weaken the perceived enemies of the Eternal Night. I'm not sure if you caught on to this or if we just crossed paths at the right time. I think we had a very mutually beneficial relationship that one point would have turned hostile. I'm sorry I didn't have the time play that through and I'm sorry that the launch of Scion was subpar. I don't think we saw eye to eye on the cabal's direction, partly because I'm still not exactly sure what you have in mind but I'm looking forward to seeing it play out.

New Order: All of you who bought into something unique. Everyone who said "Ever Upward" (even I was sick of hearing of it after about two days) or fought for an ideal they didn't fully understand, thank you. You added a great depth to the game and I wish it could have ground out for awhile longer but ultimately it was getting detrimental to the game. We were unstoppable.

Ishuli: Thank you for letting me get creative. We butted heads at the end but how could we not? Sorry I never got you that book. Aztezul stopped trusting you after the second refusal to promote my candidates for Provi.

Sayra: The best character I've encountered in CF in years. A million thank yous for the paintings, poems and instigation. You were the only person Aztezul truly respected because your skills were on his level. If we'd have had more time, we could have done even more. Maybe next time?


I'll be back with something just as serious when time allows. Keep the fires going.


Ever Upward,
-AvS