It's easy to give a cabal leader latitude when they consistently demonstrate excellent judgement.

I was amazed that you stuck it out through thick and thin times, and yeah, what a great time and place for you to go, but in terms of the literal timing of your death as well as during a cabal upswing. It almost does seem like fate is playing a role there, doesn't it?

Your mention of periods of frusteration and burnout was the reason I made Aesrira Harbinger prior to your death. I know this move confused a lot of outside observers. I saw your playing times flounder, and you were so close to age death, and just had been leader (and as you point out, the sole leader), for SO many hours, it just seemed like a repetitive and boring way to snuff yourself out of existance.

I suppose I'm saying this more for the benefit of the confused onlookers, as I think you already understood the reasoning, but I should clarify here that the baton of leadership was passed on to Aesrira largely for Tjok's benefit, not because Tjok was lacking in any way. I tried to make this abundantly clear with the title and such. When I saw how close Tjok was to age-death after the holidays, it seemed like a good time to "relieve" him of the burdens of interviewing and such that just consumed so much of his time, give him a cool title, a tale of impending ascention, and another gift for the "twilight years" - a "second wind" so to speak, and let him go out in an unfettered blaze of glory. And the events of last night, definately icing on the cake.