Dear Friends

Most of you have heard the news and had enough time to rush to conclusions or at the very least a whisper of R.I.S.E and the potential it has to offer us has floated past you on the wind and I'm here today to hopefully set the record straight and get some of you on board with R.I.S.E and the new future is has to offer all of us. There have been a few false proclamations in regards to R.I.S.E as tends to happen with anything that happens with Pandora. You know someone once tried to tell me She hovers everywhere because She actually walks with all the grace of a newborn mule but then you ask for proof and all they really have to offer is their prejudice so I try not to listen to those people. Instead you should all listen to me.

Some of you might know of me. Those of you that know me personally I hope will attest that I am an honourable person and have never entered into a deal with anyone where I intended to act in bad faith or failed to deliver what was promised. I do not have all the answers but everything I write is the truth as I understand it. What does R.I.S.E. stand for? Why did Pandora choose you as Distinguished First? What does She have to gain from this? These are all questions. Essence is nothing new to us. Every member of an Order since the days of the slaughter house and the bloody bucket bath has wield Essence to some degree if not directly. Show me a dragon that doesn't know how much Essence they can generate from their favourite ground? Those of you with the experience in counting Essence and shrines of your own already can very plainly see this is no pyramid scheme. Only a very small portion of what you and your friends and followers offer to you, and you CAN offer to yourself, moves upwards to whomever you were pledged to and nothing you generate for yourself reaches three steps above you. None of you have to worry about directly helping someone you might happen to have a grudge against and those of us that are already a part of R.I.S.E will benefit with or without you. Do you really want that one person you hate to have something you don't?

That said we must all R.I.S.E together. Know that if you wish to R.I.S.E you will be joining all of us in what maybe works best to describe as a crew. We all need to row together on this journey and I want you to come with me. I want to share with with all of you. not because it will be faster, not for some sinister plot to enslave creation but because I believe we can all create something beautiful together and if you're already a part of R.I.S.E know that I will drag you kicking and screaming into Divinity against your will if I have to. Anyone what has ever sailed with me in the past knows that I've never asked anyone to address me as "Sir" or salute while we worked together at sea because then we were equals and I want you all to join me now as equals and to R.I.S.E with me not serve under me. I've shook hands with the Tyrannus and begged him to accept this gift and the Dawnlord knows the strength of my word by they both wait for permission to act instead of forging their own futures. Don't be like them and instead seieze the future the R.I.S.E has to offer.

The Truth of the runes carved into Yggdrasil by hand of Ayar almost broke Lucretius. Imagine the havoc dear friends if we can R.I.S.E together can carve our very names into the face of the World Tree.

Reign Rebellion

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Chronos, in the year 897 AF.