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This Verse, also not in the Books proper and be considered an epilogue, is Oryx speaking of his contingency plan. It is made in case he dies, believing his death is possible if his understanding of the universe and the nature of it is incomplete. He believes his killer will be an agent of the Darkness, one whose ruthlessness and will to survive are greater than his own. One whose hunger for power is a weapon and Oryx can do nothing but fall to, for their vision of the final shape is better and is theirs to craft. | This Verse, also not in the Books proper and may be considered an epilogue, is Oryx speaking of his contingency plan. It is made in case he dies, believing his death is possible if his understanding of the universe and the nature of it is incomplete. He believes his killer will be an agent of the Darkness, one whose ruthlessness and will to survive are greater than his own. One whose hunger for power is a weapon and Oryx can do nothing but fall to, for their vision of the final shape is better and is theirs to craft. | ||
Oryx chose to write the Books of Sorrow to guide his killer, to teach them of who he was and where he came from, so they could better understand him. It would also teach them how to craft a weapon, one that will take all it can and is bound in malice, a symbol of all Oryx is, was, and will ever be. And when his killer uses that weapon, they will mantle Oryx (harkening back to Verse XXXVII [37], where Ir Anûk is said to have done this by imitating her father), carrying on his will and allowing Oryx to live forever as a guiding principle along the path to the final shape. | Oryx chose to write the Books of Sorrow to guide his killer, to teach them of who he was and where he came from, so they could better understand him. It would also teach them how to craft a weapon, one that will take all it can and is bound in malice, a symbol of all Oryx is, was, and will ever be. And when his killer uses that weapon, they will mantle Oryx (harkening back to Verse XXXVII [37], where Ir Anûk is said to have done this by imitating her father), carrying on his will and allowing Oryx to live forever as a guiding principle along the path to the final shape. | ||