Okay, let's get a few things straight, here.

1. Wardens aren't sexist.

2. Amazons don't like men.

3. Putting Amazons and a fraternal organization such as the Wardens
together is going to create tension at the very least.

4. Harker asked, that's right he -asked- for the Worldweaver to seal the
rift. It was only after the Queen told him he could not have it despite
half of Aetherius being overrun by demons that he challenged her to a
fight.

5. In the one on one battle Harker won and the Queen gave him the
Worldweaver to use.

6. In the process of using it -once- to seal the rift it was destroyed.
It wasn't -his fault-. NEITHER knew it would break during this use.
Hazards of war.

7. Only Avasyu can make something from nothing.

That having been said. Ladies. If someone walked into -your- home and
demanded you give them something you don't have and then call you a liar
and -slay you and your kin- SOLELY because you are a woman you would be
PISSED.

The Queen invaded the Keep -our home- and demanded the Worldweaver which
was won from her and used once and destroyed in an event no one forsaw
happening: the Queen included, though the Amazons claim to know how it
works and never gave warnings or indications that it could break and
still profess that a "mere man" could not break it. When I was last
involved I told the Amazon in charge of the raiding party that we didn't
have the Worldweaver, which everyone here knows was destroyed and the
answer I got was "You're a man, by that fact alone you are untrustworthy
and inferior."

Now, had a Warden said that to a woman there would have been an uprising
and absolute outrage. If you were dismissed solely because of your
gender, you would be all up in arms, but when -we- are dismissed out of
hand solely because of our gender -we- get yelled at for being upset.
I'm sorry but that's an obvious double-standard that I'm tired of
reading about.

If you're insulted by what some people within the Wardens have said
about the AMAZONS or THEIR QUEEN (not all women) then you should take it
up with the Amazons, not us, as they're the ones giving women a bad rap.
That being that they are stubborn and blinded by their predjudice
against men to the point that they lump us all together into some idea
of a man they have that is hardly applicable to all. It would be like me
saying I didn't trust any women because I think they all act like
amazons. Which, anyone who knows how much I care for my daughter and my
close women friends is a load of bull.

So I would appreciate it if all assumptions about what the Wardens are
or are not doing would cease and that all finger pointing be stopped.
Not only is it rude and disrepectful, it's ill-placed and hypocritical.

- Raife

Penned by my hand on the 1st of Artificium, in the year 436 AD.