My son,
It has fallen to me to impart to you my last secrets. Those that are most precious to me. Those that could, if given into the wrong hands, bring about my destruction, as well as the destruction of this great progress I have worked tirelessly to achieve. But that is neither here nor there. My first secret is this.
Those who have thought to supplant me are grievously mistaken. Though my great work here has been destroyed, I have had a fallback plan. They think they have succeeded in destroying me. That is how I wish it, for they will not suspect what my next acts shall be. They shall regret the day they meddled with my plans. I now understand the full range of their abilities and shall never underestimate them again. Yet the journey I am about to embark upon shall make all the difference.
Though your mother was useful, her use here was limited. Rest assured that I have taken care of her to the best of my most formidable abilities. But my greatest secret is yet to be achieved. By the time you read this, I will be far away, in a world far superior to Alagaësia, a world of magic and beings more powerful than you could imagine. Know this my son. When I have succeeded in ruling this world, I will send for you. You will be grown and able to take up my mantle as ruler. This I promise you.
Your father