Disclaimer -- Eidos owns all Soul Reaver. But if they own all of Soul Reaver, and the Elder God eats souls, does that mean that they eventually will own all of our souls? Bastards...
Thoughts on the Sword's Edge
Through the passage of time,
a millenia of moments building
to my singular fate
forged for me by immortal strangers
who held my soul in their hands,
just as I stole the essence
of each of my brethren, justice
torn out on the edge of my claws,
stealing their strength for my own purposes.
A millenia of serving my master,
his right hand. What is the space
of a year, of a decade, of rebellion,
compared to the immortal service
to a deified scion, imbalanced?
And with my own essence stolen
to fill my fate in his right hand,
is this my justice, my condemnation
and salvation, vengeance and revenge
in one masterful stroke? When the entirety
of my vision is the edge of a sword,
when my feeling is only blood and bone
breaking on my steel soul, do my thoughts
become manifest only on the downstroke
as the wind gives my trapped soul voice?