Memories (Closed, except to request)

[Karl Valten]

My name is Karl Lutz Valten. I am the Grand Inquisitor of the Office of the Inquisitoriate of the Galactic Empire. I have lived a long time, longer than I should have in my position.

I am not a good man. I am not an honest man.

But I believe in what I fight for!

Not many people know who I really am.

I was once young. I have loved. I have hated. I have fought peasants and warriors, rogues and politicians, witches and clerics, demons and angles. I have defied hells and spat in the face of heavens.

Gods and Devils quake before my wrath.

I have been a son. I have been a friend. I have a been a husband.

These things are no longer true.

I have been a saviour and hero. I have been a criminal and death itself. I have faced impossible odds and won time and time again.

I am not immortal, but I will never die.

I will never deviate from my cause or my beliefs.

I am the Hammer,
I am the edge of Her Sword,
I am the tip of Her Spear,
I am the mail about Her Fist,
I am the flight of Hier Arrows,

I am the right hand of my Empress,
I am the instrument of Her will,
I am Her Sword as She is my Armor,
I am Her Wrath and She is my Zeal,
I am the Bane of Her Foes and the Woes of the Treacherous,

Let us be Her Shield,
Let us speak Her Word as She fuels the Fire of Devotion,
Let us fight Her Battles, as She fights the Battle for our Future,
And let us join Her there, for Duty ends not in Death,
In Vengeance be true, In Valor be Strong,

I am the Hammer,
I am the Sword,
I am the Spear,
I am the Shield,
I am the soldier at the End of Time.

I shall not fear, FOR I AM FEAR INCARNATE.

My name is Karl Lutz Valten.

And this is my story.