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Expiring at the Margins of the Sanguinary Field

from Discernment in Viscera by Assault Sorcery

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“It is known to us that those who will perish here are no more
evil in your sight than we are
Their hands run with blood.
Ours too…

By thy will they may,
in this hour,
have purified their spirits
as to gain thy favor.

We who must confront them then, though we spill their blood
today...

You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun,

you for whom the sky parts as a curtain, whose breath shall wither vast Erebus, Abaia, Scylla

Who wallow beneath the wave

Have mercy on those who had none
Have mercy on us, who shall have none now”

And I have lost.
Nothing and no one here
to give comfort,
or speed me on my way

What shall I see
when I shed the yoke placed
on us in the womb?
And then...


***

Date unknown.

Cadroe of the Seventeen Stones is an obscure figure. Beyond the fact that he was a monomachist of the Sanguinary Field, little is known of his life. Above is the only existing account of his death. The author here has juxtaposed fragments of the invocation typically read by a caloyer before the administration of capital punishment or associated excruciations with Cadroe’s purported last words. This, perhaps, is intended as a veiled critique of the Autarch’s approval of dueling traditions as a net good for the state.

The study of the future is fraught with paradox. It is instructive for those wishing its attempt to keep in mind Dupuy’s observation that, “the … act of splitting apart and then reuniting the present with the future has the same logical form as conscience”. As such, we can consider the history of things to come in the remote eras of the future by using the same cognitive process we use to choose the best course of action at any given moment. None have achieved more from this exercise than Gene Wolfe (1931 – 2019), whose translation of the works of the last Autarch is a monumental classic in the field to which we owe the greatest debt.

Further reading: Wolfe, Gene. Shadow of the Torturer. 1980.

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