[ It may perhaps be a surprise when the Knight shakes their head, slowly. No, that is not exactly the purpose - they won't forget (except, perhaps, if they are returned to darkness once again. And even then - when you mask something, when you give it shape, it does not easily forget it...) ]
RECORD-IMPORTANT-THINGS
FOR-OTHERS-AFTER
IT-WILL-LAST
[ To engrave something in stone is to give it a kind of immortality. The statues and structures and the glowing remnants of Hallownest proved that; though the king had gone, the echoes of his presence were all around. The architecture of his city had outlasted him, had outlasted all its inhabitants, save a precious few. ]
MEMORY-OUTSIDE-SELF
WILL-LAST
EVEN-WHEN-SELF-GONE
[ Forever is a word they are hesitant to use. Nothing lasts forever. But even if - or when - they are gone, the words they've made will live on.
(They have already died, after all, as much as something like them can die.) ]
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RECORD-IMPORTANT-THINGS
FOR-OTHERS-AFTER
IT-WILL-LAST
[ To engrave something in stone is to give it a kind of immortality. The statues and structures and the glowing remnants of Hallownest proved that; though the king had gone, the echoes of his presence were all around. The architecture of his city had outlasted him, had outlasted all its inhabitants, save a precious few. ]
MEMORY-OUTSIDE-SELF
WILL-LAST
EVEN-WHEN-SELF-GONE
[ Forever is a word they are hesitant to use. Nothing lasts forever. But even if - or when - they are gone, the words they've made will live on.
(They have already died, after all, as much as something like them can die.) ]