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Belief and self-deceit: two sides of the same blade
Written by: Tyrant Elene Arcan-Tetzauh
Date: Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Addressed to: Sir Benedicto Silverain
Just as the Shadowbound are able to exist as thralls to the Shadow Mother, so too do the Lightbound exist in equilibrium for Fundamental Light. Both are equal in power, and equal in influence. The difference between their methods of manipulation, however, is stark but poignant.
So quick are you to see the power of Another Who would offer you salvation in one hand that you would ignore the destruction in Their other. How eager you are to continue perpetuating a lie to yourself, wrapping more blindfolds around your eyes.
Dejaani's children, the Angelic Triad, would have you licking Her palm greedily for succor, radiating false benevolence beneath the shroud of justice and salvation, because they know that once you are addicted to the powers of the First Flame, you can never free yourself from it.
But I know better.
I know that this world has simply become another battlefield to Her, an insignificant speck of existence in the vast cosmos.
In time, you will realise that you have traded in your hard-won free will for a different set of shackles instead, bound to the whims of an Albedi God Who cares about nothing else but Her eternal war against Her opposite.
Damn yourself to the undying service of Dejaani but at the very least, spare me the deceit.
I am,
Tyrant Elene Arcan-Tetzauh
Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 21st of Khepary, in the year 505 MA.