I don't know if that really happened...

There's a game I play online. It's entirely text-based. I like it perhaps a little too much. In it, there are six major organizations: four cities and two forests. I have a character in every one of these places. The most recent one is in the "dark forest," in a guild of druids who praise the spirit of Crow. Crow has four "Aspects:" Blood Thirst, Black Sorrow, False Memory and Dark Spirit. For an advancement task, my character wrote about one of them:

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CONSIDERATIONS ON FALSE MEMORY

Of the four Aspects of Brother Crow: Blood Thirst, Black Sorrow, False

Memory and Dark Spirit, False Memory captivates me the most. The

significance of the Aspect is that everything in Crow's past is

wonderful; no ill has every come of His actions. False Memory tells us

we are able to re-write our histories to fit our perfection, a

perfection born from serving the Glomdoring.

Of course this is indisputable. However, False Memory, as all Aspects,

may be interpreted differently among individuals. Crow, a known

trickster, is able to alter His past, so banishing any semblance of

weakness or wrongdoing. What memory is false here? Perhaps it is that

Crow conjures successes to cast away His failings. A trickster such as

He will happily insert tales of greatness into a checkered past, some of

which may not be true. He floods the world with False Memory painting

Him in a superior light.

I disagree. I believe that the failings are the faulty recollections. I

cannot accept that Crow, beholder of the pure Dark Spirit, could ever

have been a futile creature in any respect. Rather than swarming the

past with False Memory to cowardly disguise, Crow instead purges False

Memory from record, expunging unfounded accusations of imperfection.

There are many slanderous claims issued towards Crow from around the

Basin; there are many who claim Crow to be an inferior and menial force.

By the power of His Black Sorrow Crow recognizes these claims as the

result of a fear of Him, and of envy. In hopes of disfiguring the beauty

they cannot themselves achieve, they bombard Crow with tales of

ineptitude and loss. These comprise the False Memory Crow faces, and

thus it is His foes who rely on deception in order to serve their

purposes.

Because of Crow's perfection, His foes struggle to invent condemnations.

Much of what they say, then, rests upon the the changes in Crow's life

and work. They distinguish change as admittance of a past mistake, be it

a mistake in means, methodology or pursuit. This is fool's logic. Crow,

with Blood Thirst thriving within Him, works diligently towards His

goals; at every turn He executes carefully calculated actions that bring

Him nearer to His infinite, ultimate end. A change in means is to be

expected as the world shifts. A change in methodology is applied

precision, whereby Crow aptly deals with situations individually. A

change in pursuit does not exist for Crow; it is His foolish desecrators

who mistake short-term goals with the long-term goals He flies towards.

Thus, a blind outsider might think Crow changes, might think Crow has

been wrong in the past. In fact He is never wrong. He simply does what

is needed when it needs doing, even if what He does resembles a fault in

the eyes of the ignorant.

Some may think to disarm this argument by mentioning Crow's renown for

playing tricks. "False Memory is only deception," they demand, "for Crow

knows only how to lie." What they do not understand is that Crow is

playing the tricks, not relying on them like some crutch for the weak.

Crow's games are for His amusement and pleasure; they are a ridicule of

those slander-spewers who do lean upon deceit to get by. His trickery is

His pleasant respite in His continual efforts, and by no means is it a

sign of weakness. Crow has no weakness, and any indication of such is a

False Memory, requiring dispelling.

Praise be to Brother Crow.