It seems the easy thing to do is seldom the right thing. I wonder how that can possibly be the case. Surely the easy thing and the right thing must be the same at least some of the time. Is it some cosmic conspiracy that makes each choice before us a burden of conscience? At the moment, this is not a problem I have, as I have been guided by circumstance, reacting rather than deciding, and I’m getting tired of it. What I wouldn’t give for a decision that I had some agency over, even a difficult one. It seems better than being at the mercy of events.


    Kalutu, The Book of Lost Wisdom


    Seventeenth of Learning 1142


    So you would let the enemy have this battle?


    Of course.


    You know nothing of war.


    Even though the undead are building massive armies within the borders of Xarinos?


    You disappoint me. I had assumed you’d be smarter.


    So sure you are.


    will tell me. Why did you examine her?”


    finally, he would get the recognition he so richly deserved.