What Drives You?

[Adelemphii 1766]

What Drives You?

What is it that drives you, gives you purpose? Why do you wake in the morning when the sun rises above the distant mountains and casts shadows across the world? Is it your choice, or are you a sheep who follows those who guide you to the prosperity of your ancestors? Regardless of what you say or think, there is nothing wrong with that.

 

There was a time, in my youth, when I looked upon the endless snowdrifts and barren stones of the north and wondered what future awaited our people. The tundra is cruel, it strips weakness from the bones and leaves only endurance behind. Many looked upon it and saw only hardship, isolation, and hunger.

 

Yet I saw something different. I saw hearths burning within halls filled with laughter. I saw children racing between the pines while their elders shared stories beside warm tables. I saw mali’fenn standing not as scattered people clawing through winter, but as kin bound together by purpose and trust. A people who would never again need to fear starvation or abandonment so long as they stood beside one another.

 

I dreamed of a land where strength was not inherited solely through blood or ancient name, but earned through will, devotion, and labor. Where any among us- hunter, laborer, scholar, warrior- might rise should they possess the courage to strive for more. Not because destiny handed them greatness, but because they reached for it with their own hands.

 

That dream was never one of comfort alone, for peace is not idleness, community is not complacency. A thriving people are not built by those who merely exist within the confines of a settlement and wait for others to shape the future for them. They are built by those who wake each morn with purpose in their heart.

 

And so I ask again: what drives you?

 

What vision of the future compels you forward? What mark shall you leave upon your kin, your people, and the generations that come after you? Will you simply walk the path laid before you, or will you help carve a new one through the snow?

 

The future of Fenn will not be decided by its leaders alone. It shall be decided by every soul who choose to build something greater.

 

Signed,

Elyndra Tathvir

Archon of the Tathvir Bloodline