so be it then. Your path is set, creature, and you will walk it in accordance with fate's due course. Until you learn better from this than mere bitter humility. And though no physical body or visage manifested, Darius could feel a shift in the void's impersonal disdain toward something approaching faint approval. You surrender your pain to wisdom at long last... though we shall see if it endures when you must face its true tests amidst the struggle of mortal realms.