Role

Chapter 1

A crisp white page sits atop a small stack of papers, bound carefully
together with what appears to be strands of spider silk. The text is
beautifully written in flowing black ink, a few elaborate spider-like symbols
are drawn in the margins.
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Should you be reading this, I can only assume the experiment was a success.
If my predictions were correct, you are now experiencing the worst headache
of your life, likely agitated and disorientated, vomiting and suffering
severe cramping. Do not worry over these temporary ailments, as they shall
soon pass and are a pittance for what you have gained (and lost), I can
assure you. Drink the tonic I have left on the table beside you--it will help
ease the side-effects.

Your name is Kwoalewei Mathai. You are the purest of drow to have ever
wandered the Underdark, in a past life a devote servant of Lloth (hencethe
brand of the spider you will notice on your hand). Know that you are gifted
in all matters of scientific and arcane studies, the sharpest of minds and a
master of mental and physical manipulations. Use your gift with extreme care.
Nurture it and it will guide you. Never underestimate yourself.

What you are now experiencing is the culmination of your own lifes
research--a reprogramming of your mind, as it were, enabling you to see things
as purely as they can be perceived by mortal mind. Your past life was a life
of pain and suffering, it carried with it a haze of weakness and impurities
that settled over your mind and body, holding you down. The details of which
are best forgotten entirely, I can assure you. This experiment, if
successful, has given you the gift of sight in a world of the blind. In time
you shall discern exactly what I mean. For now this will all be confusing, if
not infuriating. Be patient, as the "adjustments" I have made to our mind
will blossom with time. Just as all things in life take time to grow to
fruition.

The following pages in this journal have been designed to guide the remaking
of your self. Study them in time, as each shall reveal an essence of the
Truth with the sole purpose of completing your transformation, of setting
your self free. For now, you must simply know this: you are henceforth beyond
good and evil. You are henceforth beyond politics and allegiances. You are
henceforth unrestrained in your ambitions. Your will shall manifest over the
minds and bodies of all who attempt to limit you.

Embrace the dark from where you came, Kwoalewei. Seek out the Father of Devils
and focus your mind on the essence of the Truth. This world is now yours anew.
Go forth and shape it with your will.

Yours truly, forever and nevermore,

Kwoalewei Mathai, Forgotten and Reborn.