Resiak,

I believe that you misunderstood my message. But, that's understandable,
given your passion for the topic. Let me respond to your comments in
turn.

"Go live the dreamless life."

Hmm. What are those flights of fancy I have every time I fall asleep?

"Those who taught you didn't lose Faith in you. Faith that was taught to
you was not false. Faith is belief, pure and simple."

I never spoke of the faith of others. Everything I speak of is about my
own faith. (Quote: "I realized that the doctrine I'd so fervently
believed in was, FOR ME, based upon trust in those who passed that
knowledge on. If I couldn't trust the teachers, how could I trust the
lessons?")

My point here is that Faith is not based upon KNOWLEDGE but upon BELIEF
and TRUST. The Auresians BELIEVE that the undead don't have a spark. But
none of them ever took the time to find out whether or not that was
actually TRUE. It's a part of their FAITH. Thus, Faith is NOT "belief in
what you know"it's belief in what you've been told by othersand that's
founded upon Trust.

"Maybe you do still have a Spark left in your grotesque little corpse.
But I dare you to touch it. I dare you to attempt to wield it as you did
in your mortal form."

I thought I made it clear in my previous proclamation, but I'll repeat
it here. After thorough trials, I can still touch my spark. It still
glows with a radiant light at this very moment. I can put it to the
exact same use as I could as a mortal. I've severed the minions of
Consanguine. I've enflamed weapons. I've drawn from my aura to rekindle
my health. I've used fire to cure myself of various afflictions. I'm
still waiting for that wolf to come and devour the rabbitand even then,
is the wolf strong enough to extinguish the Flame?

"Know that you will never again, as long as you are one of His, be able
to touch and wield that glorious warmth that dwells within each of us
mortal beings."

How presumptuous of you to believe this. I HAVE touched that Spark. I am
touching my Spark right now imagining how it would irk you to know that
I can. You prove my point completely. You are so blinded by the things
you've been taught that you've become inflexible. You can't adjust your
thinking to deal with the Truth that walks the land. I am the Truth. I
am the Proof. Your Faith is flawed.

The time has come to adjust our thinking, people of Sapience. Don't let
superstition and 'ghost stories' rule your lives. Let logic and truth
guide us all into the future.

-RN

Penned by my hand on the 16th of Ios, in the year 217 MA.