Soon he rises.I have seen a world torn asunder and histories consigned to ashes.
I have seen Kings crowned thrice over and Queens uniting empires.
Gods I have witnessed walking the bare earth of the mortal realm and Avatars hewn down to the dirt.
I joined the mad folly of an alliance forged in terrible desperation and watched it thrown to the eight winds for petty jealousy and ludicrous ambition.
Blade to blade I battled the servants of Armageddon; losses I suffered, friends I buried.
Victories I clawed from the closing jaws of utter defeat, lives I snatched from the waves and escapes I architected for those who would live free.
I was fortunate enough to stand beside the greatest heroes of any age and aid their battle as best I could.
Beneath stolen boughs I planned to raise a laughing family beyond the end of times.
I was betrayed.
I was a betrayer.
The woodlands are burnt, the arks of my people drowned, the land to plant and hunt annihilated.
Their very souls cast throughout the multitude of universes to drift alone.
As I have drifted alone.
I brought the Spear of Death forth to the world and with my love turned it upon myself.
For that folly I float disembodied, disenfranchised, unremembered, unremarkable.
I have been very, very foolish.
With but a laugh and a dance I sought to defeat Destiny.
I failed.
But I am not finished.
I refuse to be finished.
I hear the distant beats of distant hearts; beats so familiar they hum through my consciousness and I feel for the first time in eons curiosity bubble within me.
I suppose that once more I shall plan something very foolish.
For that is who I am.
I am The Fool and I am coming.
Soon the Zero Hour.