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Artist's commentary
When All Is Ashes
It's okay to lose a fistfight. It's okay to lose a duel. But this right here? This is what happens when you lose a war. People killed...slaves dragged through the streets...everything we worked so hard to build disappearing.
Was there no other way? Was there no different path we could have taken, however small? This is all the meaningless drivel that inevitably fills my head in the wake of all this. I know you're still here. But...you alone don't make any difference. Not when everything else we were supposed to protect is gone.
Ahh, my towering ramparts, my indomitable three-layer bulwark. Do not cry; tears are the sole right of the civilians I should have protected. You...you may only rage. Rage like a demon. Rage like chaos itself. That is the only right left to you.