Greetings Aetherius,


Its been nearly a century since I felt the need to speak to you as a
whole. Usually, I keep to myself and enjoy such. Those that know me,
know that I would not be posting were it not for something that needs
attention.

Over the past several years, I have watched, as certain factions have
evolved, and others eroded. Pride overwashing Morality, and with that
loss of morality, innocence being washed away by bloodshed. Those that
can feel in their hearts, the change that has overcome them might feel
my words, others are already too far gone to feel anything but hate and
pride. Those that feel this way, I only feel regret for you.

Never before in my life have I seen such an utter disregard for the
lives that should be given freely by choice..taken and forced into death
by the handfull, all in the name of another persons beliefs. You have
grown cold. What once could have been solved by a mere wherewhithal of
words, now comes down in vengeance with fires burning and steel
clashing, over simple misunderstandings. Are we backsliding tward the
ages before, and to war among ourselves as does the Horde?

I know I am sounding a bit Pious in this, and I regret that I sound as
such, this is by no means a call for truce and utter peace and love, as
a Mortal Man, I know these things can never truly exist, conflict is
life..but not all conflict ends in bloodshed. To waste the seed before
the vine, to crush the fruit before the ripening, this is against the
nature of things.

I have watched what was once a city that while I did not like, and did
not share their beliefs, I still respected for their moral values they
held so tightly too. It is now mostly a den of backbiters. So intent on
their own righteousness that they would sacrifice the things they should
hold sacred.

You know who you are, Zealotry in any form, can be a cause for good, but
let it tip its own hands, and it will fall back in upon itself and
become hate, and hate breeds anguish..and you know what you would
strengthen when you feed that power, the very things your founding
taught you to guard against.

This has infected most of Aetherius, where once it was confined to
Stavenn, who reveled in Combat...but their creedo is not to kill the
week, but to crush the strong and prove their might..or was, I do not
know anymore.

I really think, it is up to Aetherius to choose its own future, in the
hands of hate, or in their own.

Sorin Sa'Gael

Penned by my hand on the 15th of Bellum, in the year 519 AD.