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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Evan's Speeches: "On Bravery and the Six Rivers"

Another of Evan's speeches, which he had translated to many languages and told by bards to be spread well outside the borders of the Green Belt.

“There is among you some who feel something is there over the horizon, something more you long to. Just like Pazuzu’s High M’Vania city encompasses the whole Abyss and opens on all dimensions in the Multiverse, and the brave and courageous fly to him, so you watch out the window and know that there is something out there that you can’t even imagine yet.
Someone escapes the role that his society had in store for him; someone suspects that there is whole world out there, beyond the ancestral traditions that have shaped his mentality and his behaviour: these things have influenced you, but they can’t pin you to the ground, they can’t quench the desire to know more. These people are called Adventurers, they’re called Individuals.
Some of you know that there is something else. Beyond the next plundering a city with your fellow Goblins, beyond the lofty perfect castles where your ancestor Elves have lived forever in harmony, beyond the darkness of the World Beneath, beyond the walls of the castles where you and your siblings are the new scions of a long Human bloodline.
Some thriving few feel the pull of adventure, feel the lure of discovery, the thirst to find out: some have the will to realise something that is entirely their own creation.
Listen to your Inner Voice! Stoke the flames of Hubris and let them fly you wherever they might lead you. Follow one of the Six Rivers and come to our Blessed City, where fellows do not adapt, but rather bring their bravery and their audacity!”

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