[Dedas]

Dear diary
Summer in the year 5 of the ascension war.

When I'm deep in my sleep I sometimes have a strange dream, I can see stout warrior women with drawn swords and heavy horsemen with long lances, ready for the charge. All of them in a violent mass of confusion. They are setting farmland on fire and battling it out against men wielding great rectangular shields. Oh, and in the distance I can depict the great city of Eldregate, besieged by three great armies. Suddenly, looking around me, I find myself sitting on a throne of human bones carried by four huge monsters, all with countless heads snapping at each other. More to the front I see a great number of big lizards carrying warriors in strange saddles. All of them seems to wait for my command. Maybe I'm some sort of leader or maybe even a great ruler? Then, all of a sudden, the spectacular panorama of war fades away and I wake up, looking at my familiar underwater lair and realizing that it was just a dream. And although this is my "body" - an octopus of great size - I cannot help feeling that I belong somewhere else, perhaps even in a whole different being? And if that is so, who on earth am I now?

Maybe it is just the long isolation deep underwater that is making me uncertain on myself. I mean I've been here for over 2500 years, it is enough to make anyone uneasy I believe. Next month there is going to be changes, I promise dear diary. I promise.