Role

Chapter 3

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| "Evolution" |
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| It has been twenty-five years since the urge to pour my |
| thoughts into a journal has struck. I dedicated my time to |
| the craft, and in these recent years to my cause. And what is |
| it, exactly? As I said to an assassin recently, War is that |
| which tests, purifies, and allows all that we are to thrive or |
| die. We owe everything to it, and the great hypocrisy is that |
| those who benefit the most from it - the nobles, politicians, |
| and their lesser's - they denounce it publicly, under the gaze |
| of fat priests (also beneficiaries). I don't buy into that. I |
| embrace the role of conflict in our world, and further it. |
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| Until now I've raged violently, part man but mostly a |
| beast. I reveled in the power that my dedication to the craft |
| has granted me. But, in emulating the beasts I nearly lost the |
| most important gift the Gods gave me - humanity. Some say the |
| word represents benevolence and love. I say it is the aspect |
| of my soul that has given me wisdom and insight into this |
| simple truth: I am a herald of war. Through me there is no |
| compromise. Those who seek peace will find themselves within |
| the crucible as much as those who do not. |
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| Many who undertake the lessons of the guild believe that |
| shifting into the form of a beast is a state transcendent to |
| the one granted to them by the Gods. I no longer follow that |
| philosophy. My regression to a savage, primal state for the |
| sake of combat is but one path. My true form, the one formed |
| in the womb, is the most evolved. |
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| Iunna, through my travels and trials I have become a man, |
| and my once-chaotic mind now embraces the knowledge and beauty |
| mankind. All of it was built upon the foundation of war, and |
| only through taking part in it can one truly appreciate what |
| may be gained. |
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