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Salutations fellow WoDrs,

I, Wyspr, am but a recent citizen of the land but have already grown to love the world and the inhabitants. I am transcribing the WoD history onto books for the new library in Nujel'm and after reading through the histories of this world and observing recent and past events, I have to wonder what is going to happen. The following came to my mind as I pondered what I have read:

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! "

This was written long ago by a wise man who saw with clear and awful eyes. It was not written about WoD, but it strikes home if you look at all the recent events.

I see something momentous building in our World of Dreams, great happenings and dire instances. Why is this happening? Perhaps because there is no center to concentrate our energies.

Once we had a Queen and there was order and focus even though the times were tumultous. There is no center now and Nature abhors a vacuum of any kind. Thus, we see discontent and bloody uprisings. The Prophet sees an opportunity and is going to try to seize the moment.

If the Prophet is successful then the carrion crows will feast and grow fat on the bodies of our most valiant heroes. Anguish and fear will hover like an insidious mist through the cities. The townspeople will find they have raised a bloody Tyrant who will squeeze the World of Dreams until the ichor of human life flows in an endless torrent.

I, a druid and ranger, am the last to propose anything concerning governing bodies or royalty but the lack of such could easily be the reason we see these events.

Just an idea I had...I hope it wasn't due to my sampling an unknown type of fungus that I found in the forest. I couldn't identify it so I thought I'd nibble on it and, whoa.. Pretty colors! Ahem...purely scientific inquiry, you understand. A ranger must identify and classify wherever possible!


I am more at home in the forests, crouching down to observe with wonder, the rainbow scintillation of a dewdrop suspended from an arced blade of grass, or the gradual awakening of the deep forests as stars pale, or attempting to hear the circadian rythym of life in all its forms.

So, I am not one for weighty thoughts or political machinations. I can barely learn how to work in effective concert with my dragon and I tend to forget to eat when I get enthralled with the spiral dance of butterflies! and...and...whoa, Pretty Colors!...But, I thought I would express my observations for those who do deal with such thoughts and decisions.

respectfully,
Wyspr

Wyspr, I had no idea you were so poetically inclined. Our brief meetings and concurrent neophytism have made me think of you as my friend, but now I count myself as an admirer. I almost shed a tear reading your post. I could almost see the crows and almost hear their raspy calls of bloodthirsty joy. We cannot let this new home of ours fall into such a state.

If you're right about the future and it's possibilities, we'd better find a center, elect one, create one--something. And fast.

We have a queen. Queen Lissar just doesn't show herself to the commoners much.

Wings wrote:We have a queen. Queen Lissar just doesn't show herself to the commoners much.

I had thought that was the case, but according to the Histories, Queen Lissar was slain and there is no mention of her coming back to life. Perhaps that is an unpublished tale?

Wings wrote:We have a queen. Queen Lissar just doesn't show herself to the commoners much.

Forgot to remark on this part: "commoners"

If the Queen is alive and well, why would she spurn the commoner, the blood and thews of the World. Is she an unenlightened monarch that consorts only with those of nobility? If so, how does one define nobility? By a title? If she is alive, doesn't she realize that her ivory tower policies have plunged the world into chaos and horror?

I hope that if she is alive, she is just indisposed and unable to rule effectively and if that is the case, there should be a regeant or a Council. There has to be a government of some kind to properly address matters that affect the entire world. Either that or local Lords governing cities and surrounding areas.

The Prophet has been ambiguous in his demands and issues. It would be best if he were to make things clearer and perhaps we, the defenders of the land, would be able to understand.

Bayn wrote: I had thought that was the case, but according to the Histories, Queen Lissar was slain and there is no mention of her coming back to life. Perhaps that is an unpublished tale?

Yes. Someone should write about that.