Role

Chapter 4

Atop this page is a detailed sketch of an eyeball and connective nervous
tissues. Meticulous notes align the margins of the page, labeling the
anatomy and describing in detail their functions and relationship. One
passage near the bottom of the page stands out:
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Many eyes are clouded by fear, weakness, compulsive desires, and the
manipulation of great deceptions. They stumble about the world blindly,
enslaved to forces forever abstracted, oblivious to the Truth bared witness
by those few beholden to clearer perception. And what might one do to allow
the blind to see? To "open their eyes" would simply expose that
dysfunctioning eye to Truths it cannot perceive. Attempt philosophizing with
an elf and one will quickly realize their inferiority, as one cannot see
clearly when ones mind is broken entirely--

Challenge any of them. Find one of the Fortress who is a true manifestation
of their image of the so-called "Good"it dissipates as a dream and vapor,
for it does not exist. They hunt the drow, and yet if somehow they were
successful in destroying all they decry as evil, they would merely devour
themselves, always finding one more evil than the next, denying the pain and
suffering and hypocrisy they perpetuate in the process. The culmination of
this paradox, if left turned against themselves, the strongest amongst them
would finally stand alone in the end, perhaps only then to realize the Truth
in that momentall along that darkness had been within him, all along he had
been a slave to something impossible and oppressive. And then what? That lone
victorious paladin, so intent on righteousness, left standing alone
amongst all the fallen (all who were less "good", less strong) would then be faced
with the final logic of such conclusions. Does he choose suicide or
revelation? Either way he has lost.

Thus elven eyes are best functioning when removed entirely, and one may as
well sever their heads altogether in the process. Perhaps there are rare
cases where one's eyes are clouded in a fog, when one indeed bares the
capacity to see clearly with some effort and doctoring of the mind and body.
Those few with such potential should be sought out and shepherded through the
haze, for they may become something truly great. Yet they are so rare, and
the rest are a disease to be eradicated.

In doing so, anticipate a lonely journey. One must be prepared to thrive in
the solitude of the great Truth.