Writing Is An Incredibly Lonely Job.

Emotion Clouds The Rational, And Many Perspectives Guide The Full Reality. To View Current Events As A Historian Is To Account For All Perspectives, Even Those Of Your Enemy. It Is To Know The Past And To Use Such Relevant History As A Template For Expectations. It Is, Most Of All, To Force Reason Ahead Of Instinct, To Refuse To Demonize That Which You Hate, And To, Most Of All, Accept Your Own Fallibility.

The Gods Of The Realms Are Many And Varied -- Or They Are The Many And Varied Names And Identities Tagged Onto The Same Being. I Know Not -- And Care Not -- Which.

Joy Multiplies When It Is Shared Among Friends, But Grief Diminishes With Every Division. That Is Life.

Because Of The Friends I Have Known, The Honorable People I Have Met, I Know I Am No Solitary Hero Of Unique Causes. I Know Now That When I Die, I Will Live On. That Which Is Important Will Live On. This Is My Legacy; And By The Grace Of The Gods, I Am Not Alone.

Farewell Is Said By The Living, In Life, Every Day. It Is Said With Love And Friendship, With The Affirmation That The Memories Are Lasting If The Flesh Is Not.