Of all the things I've been taught by life, the paramount lesson was that hope should be feared more than despair. For despair is absolute, while hope tortures you with uncertainty. I have grown tired of it. Yet still they demanded I continue anyway. With me walks the bard Juliana who I must escort to a land on the opposite side of the world. Promised by the chance to return to the institution I had disgraced; and the paladin known as Isander, a Leone seeking the redemption within others. But most dreadful of them all is the warlock Gracielle, who seeks for answers from her mysterious patron... ...and the only woman I had ever loved. Once the world had separated us. Now, fate has chosen to reunite us. I do not know what destiny is beckoning me to do, nor why her path is converging with mine. But despite the pain of my aching heart I sense that it is beating once again-and I am not sure that I want it. -KALEM CINDERJEST
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