âDonât you â donât you dare, Arthur. Donât you dare judge me, donât you dare think that Iâ that I should have held on, that I had no right, when you, of all people, did not have the right of dying in the first place, Iâ You left me on my own, the lot of you.â Tears flowed from his eyes in a constant stream, breaking his voice, his words, his old-english tongue to a strange mixture of time-past dialects Arthur only managed to understand by virtue of the intense feelings he infused into them. âLeft me to live. They denied my right to die, and I had to go on, and wait, wait for you, wait for a time no prophet could ever hint at, and what was I left to to then? Guess? Put my faith in what? You? Magic? Kilgarrah? Kilgarrah died, and soon did also Aithusa, and that was the end of the Age of Dragons. And I thought â oh, maybe now heâll come back, to bring back the balance. But you didnât. Then the Norse came, and I thought it was the time. I built up your legacy, the resistance, and promised them that youâd come. But you didnât. The Romans destroyed our way of life. Still, you werenât there. Christians tore down the last vestiges of the Old Religion. The Norse again, and Normans followed, and still I stood alone, promising the return of the great king who would bring peace to Albion. You never did. Our way of life changed, our tongue changed, our culture and science and time passed and still you slept. Wars came, too many of them now for me to count, or to count even then. Slowly the realisation came â you wouldnât come back, would you? And you didnât. Our people, our kings, they all turned into savage beasts of mass destruction. Genocide on new discovered lands, slavery, and there I was, left on my own, unable to stop it. Magic dwindled. I only met a couple of magic users in a lifetime, and I could not protect them. Then came the first world war â and I was sure, I was so sure this would be the time, I thought â oh, what came before never came close to this destruction. The Sidhe will surely bring him back to me. But you didnât. And then I understood, and I wish it could have killed me, the mere realisation, especially when the second war came and I saw the sheer horror you would never be there to stop. And how could you? What could one man do to save millions of people from death camps, only supported by the weight of an old forgotten legend? The memory of you had faded, a simple childrenâs tale, and that was all I had left to do now, wasnât it? Keep your memory alive, find my way back in time for a few traces of you, to keep and cherish and protect. For nothing, I realised. What could a private museum of Arthuriana artefacts do to protect Albion? It isnât Albion anymore. It never was. All along, all of my youth, a complicated lie that had me cower in fear and bring down the extinction of my people. It was all my doing. Then and now Albion brings war on the Middle East, the world is plagued with a pandemic, and soon enough we will know of a flood not even my powers could prevent. No, Arthur â do not judge me for wanting to die, for wanting to hide from whatever the future holds of that same nothingness that has followed me for one thousand, five-hundred and thirty-five years.â