Heiassa: After the Storm

Amytri,   My heart to you. And all the knowledge I have if it will help you understand the interaction between story and barrier. You have all my empathy - losing lives is a hard way to learn this lesson.   We weren’t built to focus on one thing to the exclusion of others. There’s a village in the Frontier known for their pottery; when the Collective got there and destroyed their lives’ work it was a loss for anyone who prized their artistry (especially the artisans themselves) but a pot can be remade. When my heart was consumed by revenge there was no room for love or light in it. A book can be rewritten. A friend, a lover, a member of the community cannot be resurrected.   Do you think the people of Deldrin would have chosen their lives over their craft? This is not the result of one careless leader (or nine, as the case may be). As I’ve travelled on this side of the Barrier I see disconnected city states with nothing that binds them together - no love for each other beyond the money and resources they can gain from one another.   So what’s next? You will live long enough to repair this and bring your people to something shining and new.   In the wreckage of a town where all of your artwork centred people, not knowledge, will that shining thing be and how will you connect it to the larger pattern?   Heiassa   P.S. If my question aren’t difficult enough I can ask teacher. She has landed here in Dreamfall for the next little while. I really thought that enchanted swamp would hold her but I guess the trolls didn’t account for an elder dragon.