15 Medis, 4AC, 2569
This may be our last Festival here. The Rangers have said that the Second Swarming has almost completely played out and that we may soon begin trekking through the roots to get to Silan, which was largely untouched. There, they say, we may find again passage to the ruins that remain in the old New Lands and there our young can hone their skills before they, too start the reclamation of what was once ours. Our leaders have already taken their immediate guards and headed for Silan to see what the situation truly is.
This is a bittersweet day. We have word that the kitin are less aggressive and plentiful, but we have also lost our Refuge. It is no longer a safe haven, but now only a gate to a new beginning. There will be much work to do, and there is much of it that I can do, but it will be up to our sons and daughters to finish the rebuilding and push homin civilization past the point where we had brought it.
The Kami and the Karavan, I am sure, will try to push us to their own ends, mysterious as they are. There will be those who take up the marauder path, whatever that may turn out to be in the end. For me, I will work to build civilization, but I will no longer adhere to the disciples of the Karavan, only to my faith in Jena.
This may be our last Festival here. The Rangers have said that the Second Swarming has almost completely played out and that we may soon begin trekking through the roots to get to Silan, which was largely untouched. There, they say, we may find again passage to the ruins that remain in the old New Lands and there our young can hone their skills before they, too start the reclamation of what was once ours. Our leaders have already taken their immediate guards and headed for Silan to see what the situation truly is.
This is a bittersweet day. We have word that the kitin are less aggressive and plentiful, but we have also lost our Refuge. It is no longer a safe haven, but now only a gate to a new beginning. There will be much work to do, and there is much of it that I can do, but it will be up to our sons and daughters to finish the rebuilding and push homin civilization past the point where we had brought it.
The Kami and the Karavan, I am sure, will try to push us to their own ends, mysterious as they are. There will be those who take up the marauder path, whatever that may turn out to be in the end. For me, I will work to build civilization, but I will no longer adhere to the disciples of the Karavan, only to my faith in Jena.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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