Greetings traveller, and welcome to our home and monastery. We suspect the journey was difficult? Rest. We shall fetch you some food and water. You come seeking the Familiar of this land? We are here. We eagerly wish to hear your purpose for seeking us out. Which of us is the Familiar? This one presents itself before you as our Familiar, speak.
Your liege wishes to learn more about us? One need not visit our monastery to learn of us. We are Waerd, and we are every-waerd! Did you get it? We have been enjoying puns in the Neran tongue lately. Now, the point we desire to convey is that your liege needed not send you to us here when we walk his very halls. We have many settlements between him and our monastery as well, so why come to us here?
Ah, yes, that was a challenging book to write. Chaos is often seen as the opposite of order, when in fact, chaos is the greatest force of order there is. When our people lost their way, we tried to impose our will, our order, and it shattered us. We found ourselves far from home, broken, writhing in the remains of our order. Then she came. The Two-Fold Queen a-waerd-ed us with a second chance at life amidst so much death. A-waerd-ed! Did you get it?
Yes, she saved us by mere chance. It was certainly no plan of ours to find a goddess in those wastes. This one doubts that even the queen planned such an intervention. It just happened. Chaos is its own self regulating force of balance. At times it can rend all you know, all your precious stability asunder, and yet at other times it can provide you moments of such clarity, everything just seems to fall into place.In chaos, everything is possible and everything that can happen, will happen eventually.
Even if chaos, the balance of the Two-Fold Queen, is self regulating, the Waerd must remain vigilant. We know there are those out their with the will and power to disrupt the natural order, the Queen’s order. We hold a vigil and watch the world for these tyrants of false order. We watch and we wait for the time to shatter their will. For no will is greater than that of our Queen, keeper of the natural balance.
Will this satisfy your liege? We already know of his intent. We will not let him do as he pleases for it goes against what the Queen has asked of us. We may not be the subject of his ambition but we are compelled by our Queen’s will to take action against him. This one would suggest you hurry back to your liege to warn him, but it would be wiser to rest and eat.
Leaving? Very well, we have no need to stop you. Your liege will become a-waerd of just how many of us walk his halls right about… now.
Did you get it?
