A new beginning is usually not only the start of one thing. More often than not, it is also the end of another. This is a truth that cares not for what world or time in which we live. It rings through all lives and ages, civilisations and individuals all feel the touch of what once was passing to give way for what comes.
When I departed Draenor, I knew I was ending my time there. A lifetime lived, in the shadow of my family, replaced with the honour of becoming High Archivist, the responsibility of the Tomes now entrusted to my care. Aware that I was to coming, with the benefit of a guide, to this whole and busy world of Azeroth. I had never before journeyed here. I expected the bittersweet cup of homesick sorrow, mingled with intoxication of new horizons and discoveries to make and have not been disappointing.
I did not expect to find that the Tomekeepers here, on this world, have abandoned their work, especially accompanied as I was by as one of their own rank. Yet it is precisely what we did find. So now it seems there is another new beginning to navigate and without resources that should have been established.
Challenging though this is, I count myself fortunate to have Archivist Renascia at my side, as well as a number of new Aspirants who have come to us from a well skilled organisation. I find the spirit and determination these individuals display inspiring and I do hope that the way I was notified of their availability suggests at least some of the contacts of the Azeroth Tomekeepers are still intact despite their very thorough departure.
I wonder though, if this truly was a case of simple desertion. Perhaps once we have begun to establish the foundations of this new beginning I can secure the means to explore the question further.
