New Year's Poem 2019

[Enkidoh]

Well, as luck would have it I was just reflecting on the last line of 2017's poem (which Urianger made a point of also mentioning outright in game during SB's story), and the conclusion I came from that in light (ha!) of the recent developments and the Shadowbringers teaser, left me feeling very omninous for the future, and this year's poem only is making that ominiousness worse. Really, it's pretty easy to see everything goes Doomsday, and we are swept up in it ('azure lost admist the storm'), and now this year's one further drives that apocalyptic feeling home. And I don't like it one bit.

I know desperate times call for desperate measures, but I still can't shake the feeling that despite the idea of 'taking darkness to escape utter destruction' is in fact still playing into the Ascians' hands and makes the whole thing nothing more than 'heads we win, tails you lose', that no matter what we do, it will still work in the Ascians' favour. I just hope FF precedent does prevail and a third option is presented, but I hope 'becoming the WoD' is not that third option. But we'll see (it will be interesting to look back at this a year from now to see how this went in any case.).