“What would Keta do?”

"⁵³And Këtásolir turned, uttered his last words to me, ⁵⁴and closed the gate behind himself before I could stop him, closing off all contact with us. ⁵⁵These last words were: 'Zupëtro, it is for your own good. ⁵⁶I am mortal, and when you return, you will be glad I rebuilt it for you.'"
-Zupëtro 53:53-56
Yesterday, I faced a very difficult decision. I had worked hard on an Ultimage project, only to realize yesterday that it would not work in the system Jekëtro had set up. I had to chose. Either I told Jekëtro that I would use my plan and he would have to work around it, or I ditched my beautiful Renedolian society to be resurrected on a list of ideas that never quite worked out, along with Jekëtro's egg antlers and my cosmic mages.
I remembered this passage and asked myself, "What would Keta do?"
I answered myself: "Ditch Renedol, of course. After all, Jekëtro has worked much harder on his explanation of magic than I have on Renedol."
Thus you probably will never see the RenedolTrilogy on your bookstore's shelf. This passage is the same sort of thing: instead of reaping the benefits of the "new world" he and the other gods had spent so much time following, he remained in the old world to piece it back together and live out his mortal life, because, as a mage, he never successfully gained immortality so that when the other gods returned to the old world with the mages, if ever, it would be found hospitable. Such a selfless act requires a strong will and concience. So next time you have the chance to make a self-sacrifice in order to help another, simply ask yourself, "What would Keta do?" and answer yourself.-Emänyo