Moogle Letter

Moogle Date Stamp: Seventh Astral Era Year 1, 7th Sun of the 2nd Umbral Moon
Delivery to: Garrett Slater, 563 Slater Estate, Sultanate of Ul'dah
From: Clarice Slater, The Carline Canopy, Gridania

To My Beloved Son,

By the time you are reading this letter, I know that you have finally discovered that I've deceived you. 'Twas all for selfish reasons and for that, I sincerely apologize. I know that you and I have not gotten along for almost two decades, for about most of the time that you have been alive. I watched you grow up and you were slowly becoming your father and for that, I was very envious. I wished you had taken more after me.

Your father always believed that you would be the perfect child that we had always wanted and because of his enthusiasm, I believed it with him. Due to that, he had only wanted to have you as an only child. Little did we know, it would later be our own undoing. During those times that you had been defying us for disallowing you your own choices while you grew up, he and I would also have our own verbal arguments about you. And while your father and I loved each other, times were not always so harmonious. I've always known that you were perfect in every way possible and I'm sure your father felt the same way. 'Twas our expectations of you and disallowing you your own life that had caused you to despise the both of us and that have blinded us from truly appreciating that all you had done and that all you had been made to do were perfect as is.

In my previous letter, I had mentioned that I was to meet a man named Patrick Crewley. While halfway a jape that I was to only see him for a date, 'twas also for other reasons that I needed him. I sought his advice and expertise on this matter, as he is some sort of scholar. I believed that there had been a way for you to not succumb to The Black, just as I've learned not to. I should have known that 'twas foolish of me of deceive you like this. I had only wanted to salvage what you and I had left of our mother-son relationship. While I was glad for the time, know that deep down I did and do feel ashamed of myself. I can only hope that you will find it in yourself to forgive me, for I had never meant to hurt you.

I will be returning home in two days time on a small journey in search of something dire. I pray that you've still your wits about you when I return, and I pray that I am not too late.

Sincerely,

Mother

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Date: Seventh Astral Era Year 1, 7th Sun of the 2nd Umbral Moon

I had almost wished that this was an actual grimoire capable of destruction.

My urges... they've changed. Rather, they are predatory. My urges seek more power, and they yet seek prey. I had no idea I was capable of such power and now I desire more... But something in me seizes such actions. Any action or thought on my part is met with the pain of ten thousand needles being wrought upon my very flesh.

Is this the life I am meant to live for the rest of my days until I perish.

People will pay for their transgressions. For all that I've loved and lost, all that I've attempted to do, I have failed.

I had almost wrought destruction upon that girl who condescended me but mayhap I've still my wits about me.

I've been lied to. Twice. To people of import to me. My mother. And Augustine. 'Twas foolish of me to attempt to help Augustine when he desired it not in the first place. Mayhap he did not love me in the first place. Only sought to use and abuse me.

For allowing that, I will pay the price. Mayhap 'tis too little too late for me. And for this, Augustine will pay. But something in me says that it will not be by my hand.

These silver runes across my body and face continue to be an utter nuisance and they continue to sting. Curse Juste. What had he done to me. To no avail, scratching them and cutting them yielded no results.

I've become a safety hazard to others. I've become a liability. I am now a man who has succumbed to The Black. It will only be a matter of time until I am completely consumed by it and lay destruction across Eorzea. Mayhap someone will need to stop me.