Found on Thalor Arboleas' desk (Parchment)
The ending is cut off as if he ran out of time to write it.
âThe Last Light Beneath the Veilâ
The final sermon of High Priest Thalor Arboleas
âMy friends. My students. My kin in thought and in truthâŚâ
âIf you feel the tremble in your soul tonight, do not fear it. It is not the coming of death, but the weight of truth preparing to rise. The earth trembles before a mountain forms. So too must we tremble before what comes next.â
âBy the time the sun rises again, we may no longer stand within these walls. The voices that guided you, the hands that taught you, may fall silent. The words we dared to speakâof soul, of spirit, of what lies beyondâwill be called heresy. They will try to burn them from stone, from page, from memory.â
âBut listen to me now, and remember: what we have done here was never in vain. Our pursuit was never selfish. It was never profane. We did not seek to control deathâwe sought to understand it. To pierce the veil not for power, but for purpose. For truth.â
âWe are not fools stumbling into darkness. We are seekers walking toward a light others are too afraid to face. And when they comeâwhen they spill our blood upon these stonesâthey will believe they have ended something.â
âBut knowledge does not die with the body. Truth is not buried in shallow graves. What weâve uncovered here will whisper through the ruins. It will echo in the hearts of those brave enough to ask the same questions we did. Some truths cannot be unlearned.â
âYou were chosen for this path not because it was safe, but because it mattered. Hold fast to that. Even as the fire comes, hold fast.â
âLet them call us broken. Let them call us fallen. But know thisâwe were never lost. We stepped into the veil with our eyes open.â
âAnd in doing so... we saw