User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/The Fatekeeper/@comment-26517142-20161118090904/@comment-28358106-20161202205208

Jeiel finds himself cast on the ground once more, as the rock fades and the dais of the throne rises in the air. Victivius stands up slowly...and begins descending the staircase towards him.

'"You presume much, Jeiel.  Do not think yourself so familiar as to make demands of the destiny you have been given.  You are the Pathbreaker, for you follow a false prophecy, another deception of the Red Mindflayer.  Your meaning, as is the meaning of all, is nothing...you are as the uncounted that have come before you, and the uncountable that will come after.  The Dance of Dynasties is nothing...You will slay your friends, destroy your loves.  You act because you believe that all can be forgiven, and all may be erased.  Already have you sought me to upend your foolishness, and have paid the price.  And still, you believe that, somehow, you are owed an explanation without having paid the blood price for your own misjudgment in the gauntlet that is your life." '

He stops just short of Jeiel, towering over him, his cloak billowing from behind and framing both of them in its enormous shadow.

'"And my brother knows  what he will become.  Yet he wil still have none of it.  He will defy to the end.  I commend him..." '