Notes ripped from the pages of a draenic grimoire:
"Magic has no morality of its own, despite the conventional beliefs of my own people. Such an idea is hard for draenei to grasp at times, given that we have over and over again suffered at the hands of those wielding fel energies, but it is merely chaos given form. It is dangerous and destructive, corrupting the user in return for its power - however, is there no possibility that such magic could someday be used for a greater purpose?
"It is not only fel. Here on this new planet, this Azeroth, we see the scars that necromancy has wrought upon this world. Perhaps, in truth, it is only wrong because the living shudder at the thought of their slain family and friends wandering the world, their corpses animated and desecrated. Our senses revolt at such things; our emotions cry out at the sight of the sacred rites bestowed upon our honored dead being circumvented. But imagine, if you might, a day when the best weapon that one might have against an invading army seeking to destroy the innocent might be the dead that lies between you and your foe. Is it still wrong to use it?
"We must also remember that while the naaru are of Light, we have also learned that they are also shadow. It seems that magical things exist on a spectrum: light, shadow, arcane, fel, life and death. None are moral; none are amoral. It is a conclusion that is, in some ways, a heresy, but how can it be heresy to see the truth of things as they actually are? Even the prophet Velen was able to see the value of a Krokul that was abandoned by the Light and found solace in elemental magic that none of us before could wield...
"All the same, I fear for retaliation should my musings ever be disseminated. If my students were not dead from the orcish slaughter, they would abandon me to hear me now. I dare not even tell the lone survivor; as a child of the Light embittered by her own losses, she would surely reject me as her teacher as well, and that would be too much to bear after all we have suffered. Perhaps in the end it is best to dismiss my ideas about magic as merely the madness of an old man who has lost his grounding in what it is to be draenei after all these millennia of wandering.
"But if I were right, then everything we think we know of magic is only the surface, and true knowledge lies by seeking deeper truths."
Scribbled in the margin below are these words:
"Archmage Serovaal might have abandoned his work, but I think he might have been onto something more. In the years since the Exodar came to Azeroth, we have seen both fel and death magics brought to bear on the side of good, protecting the world and even my people in the past. Velen himself has prophesied an army of light that contains even orc warlocks, elves with eyes tainted by fel energy, and the undead...
"Certainly that would have sounded very strange to my master a decade ago, but things on this planet change very fast. I intended to someday continue his work, perhaps after another century of study, but I realize now that I am squandering an opportunity. Right here, right now, I have so many skilled magicians of powers I do not know within reach to aid in the research. Who can tell if such opportunity will still exist when I feel I am "ready"?
"If Mundorge agrees with me, then it may be time to start. We cannot let fear dictate our allies, or our discoveries. I shall reprint his words and place them where they can be seen, and hope there are others that feel as I do.
"I pray that my master would be pleased that his surviving student did not run away, if he yet lived. And I pray that this is the right course."
