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== The Second Letter ==
In Part Four of ''[[Words of Radiance]]'' the epigraphs form a letter,
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! class=title | Chapter
! class=title | The Second Letter
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!59{{anchor|chapter 59}}
|I’ll address this letter to my “old friend,” as I have no idea what name you’re using currently.
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!60{{anchor|chapter 60}}
|Have you given up on the gemstone, now that it is dead? And do you no longer hide behind the name of your old master? I am told that in your current incarnation you’ve taken a name that references what you presume to be one of your virtues.
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!62{{anchor|chapter 61}}
|This is, I suspect, a little like a skunk naming itself for its stench.
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!63{{anchor|chapter 62}}
|Now, look what you’ve made me say. You’ve always been able to bring out the most extreme in me, old friend. And I do still name you a friend, for all that you weary me.
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!64{{anchor|chapter 64}}
|Yes, I’m disappointed. Perpetually, as you put it.
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!66{{anchor|chapter 66}}
|Is not the destruction we have wrought enough? The worlds you now tread bear the touch and design of Adonalsium. Our interference so far has brought nothing but pain.
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!67{{anchor|chapter 67}}
|My path has been chosen very deliberately. Yes, I agree with everything you have said about Rayse, including the severe danger he presents.
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!68{{anchor|chapter 68}}
|However, it seems to me that all things have been set up for a purpose, and if we—as infants—stumble through the workshop, we risk exacerbating, not preventing, a problem.
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!69{{anchor|chapter 69}}
|Rayse is captive. He cannot leave the system he now inhabits. His destructive potential is, therefore, inhibited.
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!70{{anchor|chapter 70}}
|Whether this was Tanavast’s design or not, millennia have passed without Rayse taking the life of another of the sixteen. While I mourn for the great suffering Rayse has caused, I do not believe we could hope for a better outcome than this.
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!71{{anchor|chapter 71}}
|He bears the weight of God’s own divine hatred, separated from the virtues that gave it context. He is what we made him to be, old friend. And that is what he, unfortunately, wished to become.
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!72{{anchor|chapter 72}}
|I suspect that he is more a force than an individual now, despite your insistence to the contrary. That force is contained, and an equilibrium reached.
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!74{{anchor|chapter 74}}
|You, however, have never been a force for equilibrium. You tow chaos behind you like a corpse dragged by one leg through the snow. Please, hearken to my plea. Leave that place and join me in my oath of nonintervention.
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!75{{anchor|chapter 75}}
|The cosmere itself may depend upon our restraint.
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== Notes ==
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