People of Sapience,


It is not boasts I bring before you today. It is not grandstanding. I offer only the truth as I understand it, the truth of our situation and the truth of our revelation. I ask only that you consider my words fully and completely before you respond in haste. What I have scribed here is the foundation of my belief, a faith that will stand until the world is ash. I offer this single missive first, but you will learn, by the quill or by the sword.


Let us begin with the goddess who returned, wielding revelation as Her weapon. All of us stood witness before her, gazed upon the spite and the fury that ran rampant in Her as She recounted Her tale, as she spoke of the Father devouring Elder Gods. Did She not in the same breath admit to doing the same? Is not her journey through the Ley borne of the consumption of the memories and essence of these Elders, that now reside within Her? She stands before us all and declares that She is the confluence of these Elders, and seeks to decry our Creator in the same moment for the very action She Herself has undertaken to stand before you. What reason is there, to find Her credible in the slightest? A personality of spite and hypocrisy, and we are to believe Her words, Her woven so-called "memory" as if it was the only truth? I think not.


Pretend for a moment merely for the sake of discourse that your belief in Her words is not unfounded. What is it to you? You exist, do you not? Your husbands and wives, your children, your allies and the land upon which we stand exists. You do not know a world in which we do NOT exist. How could you? If it did not exist, we would not exist. How many of you cull your way through village after village, day in and day out, and shed no tears. But in our hypothetical "revelation" you weep and rage for peoples and gods that you have never known, will never know, and who are nothing to you. They do not exist in your reality, if they ever existed at all. On what foundation do you believe you have any right or reason to castigate the Father for what you are told supposedly happened in an entirely different reality, when so many are happy to end lives and livelihoods in the here and now? Why do you crusade for those who have never existed in our Weave, but so eagerly pursue the slaughter of those WHO DO? Who are any of us to judge?


If even this is not sufficient, consider that even the goddess you wish to trust noted that Oblivion had wiped out much of this previous Creation before our Father was forced to take a desperate step. If He did in fact take such a step and make such a necessary sacrifice to see that we came to exist at all, He held out as long as He could and fought alongside His Creation until His foe had wiped out nearly all life. If you believe this revelation from the goddess to be true, you acknowledge that He fought to the bitter end alongside his Creations as they fell not by His hand, but by Oblivion's hand, and what was consumed to fuel the very fact of your current existence was not a thriving Creation, but a barren remnant snatched from Oblivion's clutches to make Creation anew. A Creation more prepared, ready to hold off Oblivion at any cost. A Creation of which YOU are a part.


I have heard many calls for the Creator lacking awareness, demanding that He be held accountable, by those who suppose that the so-called revelation is true. If we are to assume that we are a later incarnation of the Father's Weave, is this not already the case? The Goddess claims that the Father's direct methods toiling away at Creation are what drew Oblivion here. Who would stand forward and claim that our Creator has not been far more light with His touch upon our world? He has only interposed Himself when things were most dire, and to preserve our world no less. This bespeaks an awareness of the dangers of His direct intervention, and if the Goddess' claim is to be believed, a willingness to change His approach to accomodate and adapt to prior consequence.


To take this a step further, how many of you openly spit at the Warlord's duty and call Him dog and worse? The creation of the Warlord is nothing more and nothing less than what you claim the Creator lacks. The Warlord is forethought, a preemptive measure against encroaching threats against His Creation. Threats against US. He is the Creator's Hand, placed here with us to shelter, to guide, to fight for our very existence. Like it or not, try as hard as you might, each and every one of us is of Varian. We are OF HIM. You can't change that by hating hard enough, you can't stop being what you fundamentally are, a bit of His essence woven into the tapestry. I am asked time and again if the Warlord protects Creation, the Creator, or us. This question is disingenuous. They are all three one and the same.


I will offer this final consideration. Let us not speak of what some goddess TELLS us is true of a time and Weave of which none of us were part, but what we know to be true in the here and now, for us. Oblivion would destroy us and leave nothing behind. Not a barren world, not scorched and bloody lands, NOTHING. Empty. The Albedi abominations would suffer little more, destroying all we know and all we are to spin forth their own reality. None of us have a place in that world, however much you spit your hate at our Creator or at His Warlord. They don't care if you hate Him. You are of Him, and that is enough.


Think about this. This world is mine. This world is yours. This world is ours. The people and things you love, the very nature of every thing you have ever known, is of Him. You, are of Him. You can not cast that aside. You can't. You can't unmake yourself. Do not conform simply because the masses scream their rage and disdain. Fight for the things you know and the things you love. Fight for OUR CREATION.


Ever His,


Whirran Arcan-Tetzauh


Herald of Strife

Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 20th of Lleian, in the year 501 MA.