My Initiates and Deacons

I leave you but reluctantly - all teachers are loathe to believe their students can stand without them. Such a time is now upon us. I leave now to go to Horizon and complete the great work set before us. The aggressions of the Order of Reason have not touched us here, but the evidence is unmistakable. The ancient mystical traditions are faced with two choices - unity or extinction. Both are nigh-unthinkable. But the choice is clear and my path stands before me. Your training is complete, or as complete as Fate shal allow.

The Chantry of the Starry Night is yours. I charge you to protect it honorably and with care, and to continue the spread of tolerance I have taught you.

I forsee very difficult times ahead for you. The Artificers of the city have been cooperative and disputative by turns but not directly violent. That shall change as pressure is put on the both of the two key cabals of Vienna. Unity shall treaten their masters and the easy path shall be to acquiesce and attack.

I am loathe to close, but I must leave thee.

Salvation's Lord is just,
and justice raises man above the dust;
To live with justice in your heart exceeds
A lifetime's earnest prayer & pious deeds.
The just man does not argue for his rights;
It is for others that he stands and fights.

The node guardians shall obey thee without question. They shall also obey thee without question.

My mundane possessions I leave on my bed for thee to dispose of. Please forget not my sister Margareta in Linz.

Remember me once monthly. Do not remember me twice daily.