talon would restore your empire. think long and hard upon it hanzo. you can fix what was lost.
It was a strange feeling he could not bring himself to explain, as if he’d lived through many lives, all while trapped within one body. How much he’d bared witness to as a child, the days of his youth all but stolen from him by those who deemed to love him most. Yet he was fooled, by his father, by his elders, those who attempted to mold him into a thing of perfection. In a way, it was like sculpting marble to its point of fragility, and by forcing it, wearing it thin- breaking it apart, shattering the pieces beyond repair. He, was the tattered remains of once may have very well been perfection.
Yet he was pushed beyond his limits, wearing blood on his hands he never wanted to bear. Watching his brother lay still, slain by his own blade- it was that vision that would never leave him, causing him to turn away from all he’d known. His future, once laid out before him, crumbled to ash and faded away, hardly more than a lost and distant memory, having died with the young boy he once was.
It was since then that he walked alone, no real path nor destination in life. If anything it was mere survival, hoping to redeem the wrongs he’d done. He’d always heard in stories from his father, of temptations given by those who might wear a friendly facade- so he was not so quick to trust, nor ever would. For what he desired, could never truly be brought back. His home, his family, his brother, his peace.
Owning the castle that was once his, would be, in his mind, like buying land where the ground was filled with salt. Nothing would grow from it, no good would come of it- he’d be better off to lay it to rest, let his old self remain dead within those walls and never return to the place he once called home.
“I have no desire for such assistance. The path I walk is my own, I have little interest in joining your ranks for such selfish desires. What I wish for, cannot simply be restored.”