My trothkin, as the hour draws near to what will likely be catastrophe for Clan Jade Falcon, I find myself looking back and taking heart in all those and all that which has come before. My heart is buoyed to read of the Founders, particularly of brave Elizabeth Hazen avenging the death of the noble DeChevalier, Turkina high overhead. I'm encouraged reading of the REVIVAL Trials and the Falcons swooping down to claim their place among the most-worthy Clans before demonstrating time and again to the "mighty" FedCom what true strength and skill looked like. I enjoy reading of Aidan Pryde's highly unlikely rise and meteoric end. I smile as I read of Marthe Pryde leading a bunch of Solahma and Sibkin to Coventry and daring the Lyrans to try and take it back. I delight in the humbling of the Vipers on Waldorff that saw that Clan sulk away in shame, so marred they became what they did during the Reavings. The same for the ruin of the Hellions, and the part the Falcons played in seeing the Jihad end against the WoB. Though much of the recent fiction regarding the Falcons in the DA does little to stir any pride (to me, at least), there is still so much to be proud of over the course of many years both in-universe and out. As a big fan of the Jaguars, I can assure you your fandom will continue and there will still be much to enjoy even if the faction doesn't continue or becomes something you find distasteful.
Even as we're just hours away from what has every appearance of being Clan Wolf's ultimate triumph, I steel my heart for what is to come as I take solace in all the stories already told that has brought us to this point. Even if it ends as we know it in the next 36-48 hours, no one could ever say the tale of Clan Jade Falcon wasn't a glorious one, hopefully to the end. And if somehow, some way a book entitled "The Hour of the Wolf" that has been built up in other products as it has doesn't end in Wolf victory, well, everybody else better get set to kiss some Falcon rings. ;D
Take heart, trothkin!
