Greetings Silas,

I cannot speak to the events surrounding you leaving Targossas as I was sleeping then and I will not waste everyone's time with stuff I had not seen firsthand.

However, I was there when the Jewel fell. I was on the front lines on the northern gate to buy time for evacuations on the harbour, some of those persons whose wherabouts are still unknown. I stayed until Pericles ordered me out which is why I can still talk and making me perhaps the last friendly face he saw before his death. I wept bitter tears along the riverbanks and coast as I collected the bodies as they washed up. Yes, I remember THAT day.

That day did not come from the challenges of five diverse former guilds working with how to live with one another. That day did not come from the struggle between the Church and her successors and those that operated under different ideologies. No, that day came from a simpler reason. That day came because all of the Jewel's Divine were either dead or Lady Lorielan. And as the Jewel stood without any Divine, she was destroyed.

That day came for the Jewel. That day was coming for all the other cities. Perhaps that day is still coming for all the cities.

But do you remember why that day only came for Shallam? Because all of us recognized what needed to be done, the sacrifices that were made, the whole of the Sapience and the Garden rallying behind the Bloodsworn what made sure that day did not come again.

And now, you talk about forsaking those who made sure that day did not come for all of Creation. That people who joined the Dawnspear to make sure that day would not come again are in the wrong for following Those committed to the same.

Silas, I remember that day. I can only ask do you?

I remain,

Greys Vorondil, Rasul of the Lightbringer

Penned by my hand on the 17th of Sarapin, in the year 845 AF.