User blog:DB Baxter/Song of the Conqueror

What do you see in the ashes?

Maven is dead. Her criminal empire was brought to it's knees, and then put it out of it's misery by one her most trusted. I am extremely pleased with Sibbi's work. He performed his duties to the letter. However, I am glad that he had met his end. His usefulness had expired just as Maven's life expired.

From her death arose the flames. The ones that now consume the rift. When her body was found and buried, her throne of lies and deceit from which she ruled the rift was open. And crime bosses across Tamriel, the same who stared at the throne with eyes full of envy and greed, took the chance that had been given to them to claim it.

Just as I had planned.

And then the Rift became warzone for Maven's usurpers. A war that not even the guards can contain. A war that burned the Rift to the ground. A war that burned everyone in the rift down with it.

And now, as the flames begin to die down and the ashes settle, the rift grows quiet. The usurpers run, not even bothering to look back at their opportunity that had burned to the ground. And now, the world can now only stare at the carnage. Some laugh. Some cry. Most are silent.

Most people see the ashes as the end. The end of the destruction. The end of the war. The end of the suffering. But it's not. For out of the ashes, will rise a phoenix. A phoenix that will come bearing the gift of a new world. A better world.

My world.

- V