"What of your vows of vengeance?" "I'm not adding you to the list, if that's what you're wondering. It's over. I know what I am." - Elaine Cunningham

I will never be a scholar, but this I know: talk of omens and portents is ridiculous. Star charts are fine for navigation, but not prognostication. Perhaps someday people will accept that the time of prophecy has passed and take upon themselves the responsibility of their own decisions.

Who knows? Is our fate written on the day of our birth, or do we choose our paths?” “You tell me.” “Neither,” the old woman said, “or perhaps both. The future is not ours to know.

Yes, the moon elf was very different. But so were arrow and bow, and yet they worked together to become more than what either might be alone.