“And I will not ask what all others ask of you - why? Because what I have come to understand is that there is no why.”

— Ian Cameron Esslemont, book Return of the Crimson Guard

To ask why is to impose expectations on mute existence - expectations it is in no way obliged to meet or even extend. And so I make no more, ask no more.
Return of the Crimson Guard (2008)

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