"`But today I have learned a thing: that our forebears were not responsible for the evil that was worked upon them; that the sense of blame our people have inflicted upon themselves is and always has been groundless.

"`Those who became Wights were not evil men, as we are wont to tell ourselves in our fireside tales, in order to make the truth less painful, and somehow more understandable. They were good men, desperate to preserve their people. That they failed was no fault of their own. That they were deceived was no fault of their own.

"`Instead, the blame resides where it has always resided: with Morlock, the evil Wizard, and with the Demon King!

"`And so it is that my mission is changed. I and my men now go to pit ourselves, not against things in ourselves that make us less than we are, but instead against the corrupting influence of evil, as it has been worked upon us from the beginning by our foemen!

"`And so it is, my Lord, that I beseech you to come down from your tower, and to join in this fight yourself, with sword in hand, and to look upon the face of your enemy, who lies, not in the hearts and minds of the people of Astargoth, as you have so long believed, but in the thronehall of Morlock's demesne, and in the deeps of the Burning Lands where the Demon King Himself resides!




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