You are gravely mistaken, lass. There is no, 'after the war'.
The war is the scope of eternity. We sit here at its end. Should Unseelie win, all of us are dead. Each and every one. When together they have enough shards, they need only to flex their will, and the shards of all of us shall be ripped from our bodies, attracted to the mass of all other shards, made to re-form the Gem of old.
Should Seelie victory be ours, we shall also perish. But as willing sacrifices, giving up ourselves that the cycles of life may yet continue; as guardians to all which might come after us, guardians of the future. We shall be reduced to our barest elements, and be used to give life to our worlds anew at the breaking of the new First Dawn.
You should reflect on this, and on the great responsibility you bear your world.
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The war is the scope of eternity. We sit here at its end. Should Unseelie win, all of us are dead. Each and every one. When together they have enough shards, they need only to flex their will, and the shards of all of us shall be ripped from our bodies, attracted to the mass of all other shards, made to re-form the Gem of old.
Should Seelie victory be ours, we shall also perish. But as willing sacrifices, giving up ourselves that the cycles of life may yet continue; as guardians to all which might come after us, guardians of the future. We shall be reduced to our barest elements, and be used to give life to our worlds anew at the breaking of the new First Dawn.
You should reflect on this, and on the great responsibility you bear your world.