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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4358652" data-attributes="member: 65637">Whoever knows where this comes from gets bonus points.  Sadly, the points do nothing - but you can still brag about them!  Also, don't cheat and google it!'My reasons for returning are not what you would think. I have no aspirations for power or domination as so many do. No. Those are the motivations of the living, and I no longer place myself among them.'If only I could show you the places I have seen, you might understand the things I say. I have been to the Desolate Lands, wandered by those souls who still see the lands of the living, yet wear the cloak of the dead. Blind to their own ends, they cry, passing through one another like shadows in the dying light of day. I have traveled to where souls rot in torment, pierced with the jagged shards of life and vision, clinging to memory - regrets of the flesh. I saw that this prison was of their own making, and that the key was in unknowing, in release... and still, I traveled on. 'And finally, I came to the place where souls go to die. Where the mirrored and worn spirits fall into an endless sea of grey, mirrored glass... and I lowered myself within...and lay among them... and I almost did not return. 'And do you know what I found there? There, among the silent and battered shells of the innumerable? Peace. Enlightenment. Truth. Only then did I realized that this place, this "Life", is an abomination, a horrible distortion of the natural order. This "Life", who mothered Pain, and Fear, and Envy - these twisted children who exist only because we are here to feed them, to nourish them! This "Life", this... afterthought - a disturbance, a mere ripple in that great, dead sea, not even a cause, but merely an effect, sending these souls upwards, screaming for release from the day they are torn from their waters! The effect of what?! 'I do not know. Nor do I care. 'Have you ever spoken with the dead? Called to them from this side? Called them from their silent rest? Do you know what it is that they feel? Pain. Pain, having been torn into this wakefulness, this reminder of the chaos from which they had escaped. Pain! At having to live! There will be no more pain. There will be no more chaos. And so I go to be an end to it, and then I will join the souls of the dead, when it is done. 'I see your souls, travelers. It screams, tattered and spent. Do you feel its pull? Do you hear its wailing? It is within my power to calm these waters, and that is what I shall do.</blockquote>

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