[ It's...never occurred to Marik until just this moment that those aren't the same thing. That the nameless Pharaoh might not be the root cause of the tradition, even if he were to be the benefactor. Had any of the sacred texts indicated....?
"Rishid, tell me. Who do I hate for this?"
No. No, it was just... ]
It was fate.
[ Everything was. Wasn't it? Even his own rebellion had been needed, to make him fated to end the Tombkeepers' long service in the dark....But then, whose fate had it been to cast them into the darkness?
Didn't it all have to happen? If it didn't....
If it didn't, then that sniveling child he'd been at age nine had been right. "They say the pain is so bad you scream for a month! Why do I have to go through it? I don't wanna!"
Except that can't be. It can't. It has to have meant something! Or else, he...
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[ It's...never occurred to Marik until just this moment that those aren't the same thing. That the nameless Pharaoh might not be the root cause of the tradition, even if he were to be the benefactor. Had any of the sacred texts indicated....?
"Rishid, tell me. Who do I hate for this?"
No. No, it was just... ]
It was fate.
[ Everything was. Wasn't it? Even his own rebellion had been needed, to make him fated to end the Tombkeepers' long service in the dark....But then, whose fate had it been to cast them into the darkness?
Didn't it all have to happen? If it didn't....
If it didn't, then that sniveling child he'd been at age nine had been right. "They say the pain is so bad you scream for a month! Why do I have to go through it? I don't wanna!"
Except that can't be. It can't. It has to have meant something! Or else, he...
Father.... ]