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The '''Hidden Dossier''' is the book contained within [[The Witch Queen]] Collector's Edition.<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cBSs5RNbugJXFWGBnewbW_j1iV3qKGBt/view Scans by Samuel Chang.]</ref><ref group="Note"><small>Transcription by [[User:Jzpelaez]]</small></ref> It is a collection of documents, messages, and other relevant files from [[The Hidden|Hidden Agents]], compiled by [[Ikora Rey]]. In addition to the 48 pages within the CE book, there are an additional 30 pages resulting from the ARG involving buyers of the Collector's Edition.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1msGOeauhUIzPPDZN2PNeHq7dzdykG0RaNUsroTD4DqY/edit?usp=sharing ARG pages solved and transcribed by multiple individuals. Full credits in cited Google doc.]</ref>
 
The '''Hidden Dossier''' is the book contained within [[The Witch Queen]] Collector's Edition.<ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cBSs5RNbugJXFWGBnewbW_j1iV3qKGBt/view</ref><ref group="Note"><small>Transcription by [[User:Jzpelaez]]</small></ref> It is a collection of documents, messages, and other relevant files from [[The Hidden|Hidden Agents]], compiled by [[Ikora Rey]]


Text in <span style="color:#735c99;">this color</span> indicates handwritten notes made by Ikora Rey.
Text in <span style="color:#735c99;">this color</span> indicates handwritten notes made by Ikora Rey.


==Letter From Ikora==
==Letter From Ikora<small><ref group="Note">Letter itself is a separate item, however is included on this page for the purposes of compiling transcriptions to a single page.</ref></small>==
[[Guardian]],<ref group="Note"><small>Letter itself is a separate item, however is included on this page for the purposes of compiling transcriptions to a single page.</small></ref>
[[Guardian]],


I hesitate. I am touched by doubt.
I hesitate. I am touched by doubt.
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made too many mistakes to ignore; that's youth too, ignoring your mistakes until they pile up<br>
made too many mistakes to ignore; that's youth too, ignoring your mistakes until they pile up<br>
and topple. I dug myself out. I learned to keep myself hidden. Hidden purpose, hidden<br>
and topple. I dug myself out. I learned to keep myself hidden. Hidden purpose, hidden<br>
knowledge. A hidden Ikora, and for the world, a face of perfect composure and intent.<br>
knowledge. A hidden [[Ikora]], and for the world, a face of perfect composure and intent.<br>
Even when we lost the [[Traveler]], I went to Io to hide my confusion.
Even when we lost the [[Traveler]], I went to Io to hide my confusion.


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I may frighten or confuse you. I am not an easy person to know.
I may frighten or confuse you. I am not an easy person to know.


This is a folio of intelligence reports from my Hidden network. It will illuminate the events<br>
This is a folio of intelligence reports from my [[Hidden]] network. It will illuminate the events<br>
leading up to the current apokalypsis. In the original Koine Greek, that word means unveiling,<br>
leading up to the current apokalypsis. In the original Koine Greek, that word means unveiling,<br>
and also revelation.
and also revelation.


In the spirit of unveiling I have also included fragments of my own personal writing about<br>
In the spirit of unveiling I have also included fragments of my own personal writing about<br>
the nature of [[Darkness]] and [[Light]]. They are less the work of Ikora Rey the great Warlock<br>
the nature of [[Darkness]] and [[Light]]. They are less the work of Ikora Rey the great [[Warlock]]<br>
Vanguard than of ikora rey, the unfashioned and uncertain woman.
[[Vanguard]] than of ikora rey, the unfashioned and uncertain woman.


In the early [[Books of Sorrow]], [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Savathun]] scribbles a warning that [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx's]] text is<br>
In the early [[Books of Sorrow]], [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Savathun]] scribbles a warning that [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx's]] text is<br>
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I give you no such warning. This is the unaltered truth of what I know and who I am.<br>
I give you no such warning. This is the unaltered truth of what I know and who I am.<br>
May it bring you to the clarity I have sought.
May it bring you to the clarity I have sought.


Ikora
Ikora
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==The Hidden Dossier==
==The Hidden Dossier==
===((01))===
===((01))===
<br>
<span style="color:#735c99;">Beginnings offer you no power.<br>
<span style="color:#735c99;">Beginnings offer you no power.<br>
It is what you do that is in your power;<br>
It is what you do that is in your power;<br>
it is how you end which counts.</span>
it is how you end which counts.</span>


==<tt>SUBJ: INITIAL REPORT ON UNPAIRED GHOST COMMUNITIES</tt>==
===((02))===
===((02))===
<br>
<tt>
<tt>
ACCESS: MOST RESTRICTED<br>
ACCESS: MOST RESTRICTED<br>
DECRYPTION KEY: Z2TET3C4WZTLRL8NV5KS$IKO-006<br>
DECRYPTION KEY: Z2TET3C4WZTLRL8NV5KS$IKO-006<br>
REP#: 1851-GHOSTS-SUS<br>
REP#: 1851-[[Ghosts|GHOSTS]]-SUS<br>
AGENT(S): CHA-319
AGENT(S): [[Chalco Yong|CHA-319]]


SUBJ: INITIAL REPORT ON UNPAIRED GHOST<br>
SUBJ: INITIAL REPORT ON UNPAIRED GHOST<br>
COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITIES
</tt>
</tt><br><br>
 
:1. Hey friend!<br><br>
 
:2. I know I'm not allowed to say that to the Warlock<br>
:: Vanguard or to IKO-006, but given that we're under<br>
:: double-trouble encryption, I'm going to say it anyway.<br>
:: How's your whole mess in the [[The Last City|City]]? Glad I missed all that...<br><br>
 
:3. I've completed my "Ethnographic Survey of Itinerant<br>
:: Unpaired Ghosts Who Prefer Intra-Ghost Interactions."<br>
:: It'll make a neat paper. As a cover story, it was pretty<br>
:: good! These Ghosts tend to be thoughtful and introverted,<br>
:: so like most introverts, they respond well to people who<br>
:: are interested in their thoughts. And they seemed to find it<br>
:: very self-affirming to dislike me! I guess it's nice to confirm<br>
:: you still prefer yourself to other people.<br><br>
 
:4. These introverted Ghosts spend a lot of time hovering in<br>
:: circles, philosophizing. The longer they've been away from<br>
:: people (sorry, [[Human]] people—Ghosts are people, too),<br>
:: the less they care about hovering at head height or facing<br>
:: each other when they talk. After a few months, they'll just<br>
:: scatter around a space facing every whichway, like they're<br>
:: each posing for a photo. When they're not talking, I get the<br>
:: feeling that they're just... sensing. The same way they can<br>
:: divine the character of a long-dead corpse. Whatever you<br>
:: want to call that faculty, they're using it.<br><br>
 
:5. Speaking of, are we still doing the sunyata friendship<br>
:: thing? Treating each other as sacred voids? If so, I'm<br>
:: allowed to say anything to you, and you are allowed to say<br>
:: anything to me, and we each trust the other to receive it<br>
:: without hurt. So I'm allowed to say—I'm not sure people<br>
:: out here like you very much, Ikora. They don't know who<br>
:: you are; they don't have a sense of what you stand for.<br><br>
 
:: And you know, I do get that. I had to sneak up on you<br>
:: in your private library to surprise you and (I know you<br>
:: INSIST I didn't really surprise you, but still...) even then,<br><br>
 
===((03))===
<br>
:: you talked to me about circles. Circles! Do you know<br>
:: what the Traveler's reawakening meant for the geometry<br>
:: of circles? You told me it changed everything about the<br>
:: semiotic role of circles in some [[paracausal]] invocation of<br>
:: the Light. And I'm going to tell you the truth, which is,<br>
:: you didn't want to talk to me, so you talked about circles<br>
:: instead. I know people who can talk ''in'' circles, but you're<br>
:: the only one who can do it by talking ''about'' circles. I really<br>
:: admire your efficiency.<br><br>
 
:6. These Ghosts without [[Guardian]]s argue about two things.<br>
:: One is the exact nature of their connection to their<br>
:: undiscovered Guardian. Is each Ghost predestined to find<br>
:: one and exactly one soul to raise as a Guardian? Or does<br>
:: each Ghost have a taste, a set of preferences that many<br>
:: dead people might satisfy? Could a Ghost potentially raise<br>
:: ''anyone''? Does the choice of a partner lie within the Ghost,<br>
:: or is it a mission assigned by the Traveler?<br><br>
 
:7. They also argue over how one should interact ''with'' their<br>
:: chosen Guardian. Should Ghosts accede to whatever<br>
:: their partner demands? Or is a Ghost's relationship<br>
:: with a Guardian a negotiated bond between equals and<br>
:: codependents? Heavy stuff. But I guess it's the same<br>
:: argument people always have about their relationships. Is<br>
:: there such a thing as true love, or just the love we decide<br>
:: we're going to make work?<br><br>
 
:8. What is this thing we do, Ikora? Are you my one true<br>
:: love, am I yours? We agreed it's not love like most people<br>
:: have love. Nobody's getting married or turning up arm-<br>
:: in-arm at the [[Crimson Days|Crimson]] Ball. It's a special and radical kind<br>
:: of friendship, right? That's what you said. An endogenous<br>
:: need to strike the lies away from another soul. It's the<br>
:: promise to seek truth in each other without mercy or fear,<br>
:: but always with compassion.<br><br>
 
===((04))===
<br>
:: So: speaking mercilessly and fearlessly, but with<br>
:: compassion, where is our friendship now? What does it<br>
:: mean? Does it mean that I check in on you every few years<br>
:: and otherwise just let you do your thing? Is that your<br>
:: nature—to draw away forever while I chase after you and<br>
:: nag to be sure you're all right? Friend, you are not Mara<br>
:: Sov, and I am not one of her cadre. I'm not doing that. I<br>
:: want to see more of you, and I want you to want that.<br><br>
 
:9. Maybe I shouldn't expect a lot of personal insight from<br>
:: the woman who wrote the Hidden creed. Which reads, and<br>
:: I quote, "Find thy self. Know thy self. Destroy thy self."<br>
:: But I'm really worried that if people don't know you, they<br>
:: might end up destroying you. Our much-foreshadowed<br>
:: [[Exo Stranger|Stranger]] saw the future, Ikora. You were dead. Dead<br>
:: because someone you trusted turned on all of us.<br><br>
 
:10. Can't end on nine paragraphs. Too spooky! I noticed<br>
:: one common thread among these unpaired Ghosts. They<br>
:: REALLY like the Books of Sorrow. Ever since [[Eris]]<br>
:: deciphered the [[Calcified Fragment|calcified fragment]]s, Guardians have been<br>
:: fascinated by the history of the [[Hive]]. But these Ghosts—I<br>
:: don't think it's fascination. I think it's pity. They see<br>
:: the Hive as an exploited underclass, for goodness' sake!<br>
:: Victims of a [[Worms|cosmic parasite]] that tricked the poor krill<br>
:: into eternal slavery. No wonder they haven't found their<br>
:: Guardians. They don't want to help anyone kill Hive!<br><br>
 
:: But this is troubling, isn't it? Because if Ghosts can decide<br>
:: that they have moral qualms with raising Guardians, and if<br>
:: they can convince other Ghosts to follow suit... we're going<br>
:: to need a program of counter-persuasion. We'll have to start<br>
:: keeping an eye on the morale and loyalty of our own Ghosts.<br><br>
 
:: This way lies a terrible future.<br><br>
 
<tt>'''MESSAGE ENDS'''</tt><br><br>
 
==<tt>FIRST CALLING OF THE HIDDEN, ANNOTATED</tt>==
===((05))===
<br>
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I feel the need to ground my commentary here with anecdote.
</span></small>
 
:'''1. Find thy self.'''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
To be Osiris's student was to orbit a star. The man would occlude you if you let him; and if you<br>
came too close, you would be burnt. It became tempting to define yourself only by your distance and<br>
angle with relation to him: "Today he is distracted but warm, so I am at a close approach but a high<br>
inclination." This was a mistake. You must know who you are with respect to yourself. This is not an<br>
emotional allegory! If you intend to conduct [[Thanatonaut|thanatonautics]] alongside a teacher, to die and become<br>
as fire and return to life, you must know what parts of you are yours!</span></small>
 
:: Accurate knowledge is impossible if you do not understand<br>
:: the device by which knowledge is obtained. One of<br>
:: humanity's most monumental achievements is the metric<br>
:: system, an enduring system of measure usable by all<br>
:: people in all situations. But the metric system had a flaw:<br>
:: its units were defined by physical objects. The standard<br>
:: kilogram was an ingot of platinum and iridium. This<br>
:: ingot changed over time, as all material things must; and<br>
:: therefore, it was unreliable. The metric system was not<br>
:: completed until the kilogram found a truer, more absolute<br>
:: definition based on pure knowledge: in this case, Planck's<br>
:: universal constant.<br><br>
 
:: In the future, we may discover that Planck's constant<br>
:: varies between different volumes of the multiverse. If we<br>
:: do, we will need to find a truer definition of the kilogram.<br>
:: So it is that this is the first step—finding thy self— so<br>
:: that you may know the instrument by which you obtain<br>
:: knowledge, and it is ever ongoing.<br><br>
 
:'''2. Know thy self.'''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I thought I knew my self. I'd fought in the [[Crucible]], which requires self-knowledge to check the<br>
impulses that control most Crucible players. ("I'll go straight to the ammo drop again; this time, it'll<br>
turn out differently." No, fool, it will not!) I'd flown high-risk scouting missions far from [[Earth]], and<br>
always returned. I had even bargained with an [[Ahamkara]] and, I thought, come out ahead. What I<br>
had wished for was a teacher greater than me.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
But I did not know my self. I could find myself, certainly, but the map is not the territory. Just<br>
because I could locate Ikora Rey did not mean I could enter Ikora Rey and understand her: and if<br>
you do not know the interior mechanism of a device, you do not know what the device will do.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I found myself in a place of crisis. The Vanguard had determined that the Ahamkara had to be<br>
made extinct. But to confront Ahamkara, you must know and accept exactly what it is you desire—<br>
you must let it pass through you without either repudiation or longing, or it will become a wish for<br>
the Ahamkara to feed upon. And oh, the longings I hated to have! To shatter [[Ophiuchus]], to astound<br>
my critics with a display of my full power, to die alongside Osiris and be reborn as one being in an</span></small><br>
 
===((06))===
<br>
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
eternity of fire, to burn poor Chalco to a temporary, smoking smear and laugh at her astonishment...<br>
we are all full of these perverse impetuosities.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
It is one thing to purge yourself of all incorrect and unacceptable thought. It is another to know it<br>
and accept it and to let it be.</span></small>
 
:: When you have reliable instruments of measurement,<br>
:: you may then measure yourself. Truth is universal, but<br>
:: universal truth can only be acquired through personal<br>
:: truth. This is the foundational paradox of Gnosticism. To<br>
:: know anything beyond the self requires self-knowledge, but<br>
:: the self cannot be known without understanding the laws<br>
:: that drive it, which can only be known by observing the<br>
:: world. How do we escape this cycle?<br><br>
 
:: This conundrum offers an escape from the Boltzmann-<br>
:: brain solipsistic trap. The trap asks us, "How do you know<br>
:: that you are not the only thing in existence, and that the<br>
:: universe you perceive is not a random moment emerged<br>
:: from chaos?" The answer is that a randomly emerged<br>
:: illusionary brain, the product of a probabilistic demiurge,<br>
:: is cosmically unlikely to contain ''both'' the memory of<br>
:: and imaginary universe ''and'' knowledge of consistent<br>
:: mathematical and physical laws of which describe that<br>
:: whole. If the world is an illusion, then why would it<br>
:: produce the illusion of a physics that can be consistently<br>
:: explain its existence? Which is more probable: that we and<br>
:: all we see are an enormous coincidence, or that reality is<br>
:: in fact determined and evolved by a consistent set of laws?<br>
:: The existence of an objective reality is more probable. If<br>
:: objective reality really exists, we exist in it. The truth that we see<br>
:: in the world around us allow us to induce the truth of our<br>
:: own persistent existence.<br><br>
 
:: To know thy self is not to only look within but also<br>
:: without. It is impossible to know thy self without<br>
:: knowledge of the universe.<br><br>
 
:'''3. Destroy thy self.'''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
When I battled [[Azirim]], he defeated me. He showed me that he could make all my desires real,<br>
and I succumbed. It was [[Wei Ning]] who broke me out of the trance-of-creation I had fallen into,<br>
moments before I manifested a wish from the quantum vacuum: four dead strangers returned to life,<br>
forgiven their desperate grab for my Ghost, so that I could forgive myself for how quickly and lethally<br>
I had responded. If I had finished the wish and fashioned them, I would have annihilated myself,<br>
Ophiuchus, and everything around us in a particle-antiparticle catastrophe.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
What Wei Ning did was punch me in the head so gently that I only got a concussion. I do not advise<br>
this as a way to destroy the self. But as an analogy, it is useful.</span></small><br>
 
===((07))===
<br>
::When you have located your self, destroy your self. Grip<br>
::your self like a hand shaking a hand, find the weak places,<br>
::and squeeze. Throw your self at yourself like a rising<br>
::tide upon an ancient fortress. Do not stop when your<br>
::soft places are eroded. You must continue until nothing<br>
::remains. In this manner, you will gain two vital ''gnoses'': the<br>
::revealed knowledge of your own strengths and failings,<br>
::and the practiced knowledge of how to reconstruct your<br>
::self when destroyed.<br><br>
 
::In one Gnostic tradition, our universe is the creation of<br>
::Barbelo and Sophia, whose mimicry of the Unknown<br>
::God's emanations gave rise to Yaldabaoth, the lion-headed<br>
::serpent. Yaldabaoth the Demiurge crafted our world and<br>
::the Archons that rule it in mimicry of the true spiritual<br>
::world, which is called pleroma. Upon creating humanity,<br>
::Yaldabaoth declared itself the truth creator, unaware that it<br>
::itself was only a mimic of the Unknown God.<br><br>
 
::The key understanding here lies not in the fabulism, nor<br>
::even in Yaldabaoth's failure to destroy itself and reveal the<br>
::truth, but in the relationship between the Gnostic tradition<br>
::and the Book of Genesis. This Gnostic tale comes before<br>
::the traditional Genesis, totally recontextualizing it—even<br>
::destroying it. In retaliation for this transformation, the<br>
::Gnostics were destroyed by more orthodox faith.<br><br>
 
::We cannot understand ourselves unless we know our<br>
::own origins; and we cannot accept our origins unless are<br>
::willing to destroy ourselves.<br><br>
 
:'''4. Shed thy self.'''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
When I battled [[Madhir]], he tried the same trick as Azirim. But I simply became someone else. I<br>
do not mean that I pretended to be someone else. I mean that I allowed Madhir to change me into<br>
someone who Madhir could not tempt.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I laugh much less since that day. But I am more content.</span></small>
 
::Rub at the thin, dry outer parts of yourself. Crawl shining
::and wet from that outer husk.<br><br>
 
::All misjudgement is caused by the failure to shed the self.<br>
::We constantly make poor decisions, knowing that they will<br>
::hurt us and isolate us, because these decisions allow us<br>
::to sustain our stories of who we are. When we are angry,<br>
::we choose to act in anger, even if we know we could de-<br>
::escalate. When we are wounded, we make the choices a<br>
::wounded person would make, even when we know these<br>
::choices will deepen the wound. Who would do otherwise?
 
===((08))===
<br>
::To refuse the choice we want is to make is to refuse our self,<br>
::and that makes us afraid. We are afraid to change who we<br>
::are. Unless we have a habit, a natural capability to escape<br>
::our own nature. So we must acquire that capability.<br><br>
 
::It is impossible to escape the cage of the self by any means except shedding.<br><br>
 
:'''5. Embrace a new skin.'''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I was at the [[Great Disaster]], when the Vanguard rallied its Guardians against omens of doom<br>
centered on our moon. We used the same group tactics against [[Crota]] that we had employed against<br>
the Ahamkara. It is hard to withstand many Guardians, and hard to use paracausal trickery to<br>
derange many minds at once.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
Swiftly and terribly, we learned our error. The [[sword logic]] finds the weakest part of a structure and<br>
destroys it. A mass of Guardians is full of joints and weaknesses to cut through. Today, we fight in<br>
fireteams of three: a triangle, the basic shape of a truss; the strongest shape in nature.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
We, the eternally reborn Guardians, agelessly returning to our favorite state, failed to learn the real<br>
lesson of the [[Great Ahamkara Hunt]]: that in order to assume a new form, you must cast off the old<br>
one. The Ahamkara succeeded in that transformation. We failed.</span></small>
 
::When you have left behind the dry husk of your self, you<br>
::will find yourself in the strata of dry husks, an infinite<br>
::compost of uninhabited might-yet-be. In order to don<br>
::another self, you must enter it and embrace it wholly.<br>
::You must accept it without reservation. This is terrifying,<br>
::because to wholly accept transformation is to wholly<br>
::accept death.<br><br>
 
::This is the confrontation with the ego death, the<br>
::psyche death, the collapse of connections between the<br>
::mediotemporal and higher cortical brain networks.<br><br>
 
::Its successfulresolution comes with the understanding<br>
::that there is no persistent self, only a set of rules by which<br>
::we temper our own changes. That which does not change<br>
::at all is dead. That which changes wholly explodes. We are<br>
::the middle course. We are the place between the dead coal<br>
::and the blazing fire.<br><br>
 
:'''6. Become the many.'''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I was a solitary adventurer, but I had to become a leader and teacher. I do not mean that I have<br>
become greater or gained a higher authority. I mean that I have learned to surrender my own desires<br>
in favor of acting for a common good. The needs of many impel me. This was not a balm for all<br>
difficulties; it created new problems. I nearly lost Ophiuchus this way: he was my complement,<br>
the strength to counterpose my weaknesses. And when I tried to become someone who existed for<br>
everyone, I left him nothing to exist for at all.</span></small><br>
 
===((09))===
<br>
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
This path is not a simple one. I sometimes lose sight of which way is forward.</span></small>
 
::This step is simple, which is why it is the hardest of all.<br>
::When you have mastered the ability to escape yourself, and<<br>
::then take on a new self, you will then abandon the need to<br>
::be a self.<br><br>
 
::This is easiest for the [[Dawnblade]], who understands the "self"<br>
::as a perturbation of a field, like a vortex in water—a place<br>
::of constant change, not separate from but continuous with<br>
::the surrounding universe. For [[Hunter]]s, this step may arrive<br>
::from study of the natural world, or from immersion in the<br>
::Human communities around us. For [[Titan (class)|Titan]]s, devotion to<br>
::duty or to the perfection of certain acts is the natural path.<br><br>
 
::All must arrive at this realization in their own way.<br><br>
 
:'''7. We are as unseen. We are as death.'''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I failed the Traveler, and I failed [[Cayde-6|Cayde]].</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I asked [[Zavala]] to declare war on the [[Reef]] and to affix [[Uldren Sov]]'s head on the [[Queen of the Reef|queen]]'s empty<br>
throne. I had lost my self; I did not know my self; I did not destroy my self. If I had, I would have<br>
done nothing. But in the [[Red War]], I could only do nothing, and so now, doing nothing felt like a<br>
trap. I wanted to do something; and so, I argued we should go into Savathûn's snare.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
I spoke bitter words about Zavala then. But he was right. If we had done nothing, the curse would never have taken the [[Dreaming City]].</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
Failure visits us as inevitably as death. But we are reborn. There are no second chances, not for any<br>
choice we make: but there is always the chance to do better at the next one.</span></small>
 
::Death comes unseen to all of us, and we do not know the<br>
::hour of its coming or the face it will wear.<br><br>
 
::We are the Hidden, and we must be as death. They do not<br>
::know the hour of our approach or the face we will wear.<br>
::All knowledge ends in us; and yet, we are beyond knowing.<br><br>
 
::But as Hidden, we must also accept that we do not see all,<br>
::and we do not know the hour of our own death. We are<br>
::the final repository of knowledge, as the grave is the final<br>
::library. But we cannot know our own death until it has<br>
::taken us beyond all knowing.<br><br>
 
::How is it possible to fully know oneself when oneself will<br>
::not be finished and complete until death?<br><br>
 
::There is a right answer to this paradox.
 
===((010))===
<span style="color:#735c99;">
//</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
'''''We are all going to die'''''
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
it's all right to be afraid to be angry to be alone with the thought for a while you know<br>
you'll never be alone after you die so loneliness is only for the living and being alone is being<br>
fiercely alive</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
The trick is to make sure we do not all die at once.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
Some of us will die and some will go on. And then those who went on will die, but more will<br>
go on. And this cycle will continue, and as long as it does, something of us will be part of it.<br>
Three and a half billion years ago, something came to life on Earth, and we are all part of it.<br>
It has never died.</span></small><br>
 
<small><span style="color:#735c99;">
We are all going to die; but not yet. Not yet.</span></small>
 
<span style="color:#735c99;">
//</span>
<br><br>
 
==<tt>CONSENSUS PERSONAL</tt>==
===((011))===
<br><br>
==<tt>SUBJ: LATEST STASIS BEHAVIORS</tt>==
===((012))===
 
 
===((013))===
 
 
===((014))===
 
 
===((015))===
 
 
===((016))===
 
 
===((017))===
 
 
===((018))===
<br><br>
==<tt>VANNET PERSONAL</tt>==
===((019))===
 
 
===((020))===
 
 
===((021))===
<br><br>
==<tt>SUBJ: REQUEST FOR CLARIFIED/UPDATED STANCE ON STASIS USERS</tt>==
===((022))===
 
 
===((023))===
 
 
===((024))===
 
 
===((025))===
 
 
===((026))===
<br><br>
==<tt>CONSENSUS PERSONAL</tt>==
===((027))===
<br><br>
==<tt>SUBJ: PERSONAL EXAMINATION OF THE GLYKON VOLATUS DERELICT</tt>==
===((028))===
 
 
===((029))===
 
 
===((030))===
 
 
===((031))===
<br><br>
==<tt>VANNET PERSONAL</tt>==
===((032))===
 
 
===((033))===
<br><br>
==<tt>SUBJ: FOLLOWUP ON AFFIDAVIT FOR INCID #12059</tt>==
===((034))===
 
 
===((035))===
 
 
===((036))===
 
 
===((037))===
<br><br>
==<tt>SUBJ: PERSONAL REPLY</tt>==
===((038))===
 
 
===((039))===
 
 
===((040))===
 
 
===((041))===
 
 
===((042))===
<br><br>
==<tt>ENCRYPTED PERSONAL</tt>==
===((043))===
 
 
===((044))===
 
 
===((045))===
<br><br>
==<tt>SUBJ: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF IKO-006</tt>==
===((046))===
 
 
===((047))===


# Hey friend!
# I know I'm not allowed to say that to the Warlock<br> Vanguard or to IKO-006, but given that we're under<br> double-trouble encryption, I'm going to say it anyway.<br> How's your whole mess in the [[The Last City|City]]? Glad I missed all that...


===((048))===


==Notes==
==Notes==
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