It became, to me, not a training session, or a quest that quickly needed to be completed, but a way of life, and a way of learning the old-fashioned way, with time and patience involved. I had learned lessons that I believed I could not reittirate to others when I finally came to understand my family's meaning of life - even now my way to true understanding is barricaded, but is slowly being chipped away into a passage. Those closest to me, my mother and father.. I had always looked up to them, and I believed no one knew more about the family Ru-Arnet than they did.

 Until I first met my grandmother, however, one of the last living Stat-Equalits, it became clear to me that I had to learn everything from the basics to the skills of what the entire family stood proudly for. The legend of Ihie, the jewel relic, the family crest, the 'Phases Four'.. everything became understandable through her wise teachings. Not only was this divulged to me, her grandaughter, but to the entire village, as a reminder of who we are, and how we can find ourselves through self-undertanding, and through other people as well.

When it came time for my father, the last remaining of my family, to pass on, he handed down to me the Jewel of Ihie, as we were blood-related to our founders from long ago. He informed me to pass on the tradition of the family name and honor, and to never lose myself.

I am now in the standing as the Head of the family Ru-Arnet, as the search of my brother had long failed after his departure into the ranks of the Buyan army; he was deemed the next family successor and keeper of the Jewel of Ihie.

With dignity and determination do I drive this family on, to continue its successes to be unified, to feel spiritually whole with the self and those unrelated. Little of the Stat-Equalits remain, but they are considered miniature spiritual gods from those in the family. We are taught to teach ourselves to not destroy our lives with greed of any kind, and for this we cherish a saying, that is engraved below our crest: "Open your ears, eyes, and minds, not your hands."

Long live equality, tradition, and honor.. long live the Family Ru-Arnet.

'o:_ End of Chapter

~ LeAnnder Ru-Arnet