CE 2178

The Musings of the Prophet and Poet Anesia Baxter was republished to commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the Third World War. Anesia Baxter wrote while imprisoned in Lord Wyatt's camps. It is unknown if the journal was a complete works, a recorded premonition, or completely imaginary. It is unknown how much is false or how much is true, but it is held as a testament to the existence of Lord Wyatt and Lord Christopher, from the Battle of Forces, and the Third World War. While Anesia is not involved in this tale, it is unknown how much can be traced back to her imagination, her visions or what she experienced in life.

The following excerpt is from page twenty-eight, chapter two "Torn by Forces Beyond Us" of the original journal:

The difference between fire and ice does not solely lay in temperature, or at how they are the natural bane of the other, or in the innate creation or destruction of one another, but in the pococurantism or concupiscence that lays in their being. Just as the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference, the opposite of fire to be ice resides in the inherent emotion that lays within them. Fire burns, creates, and lives eternally. Fire is all consuming. Fire is deadly and life-giving. Fire is love, hate, good, evil. Fire is.

Ice is not.

The polarity of fire to ice resides in the fact that where fire is concupiscent, ice is pococurante.

Likewise, when the Lord Wyatt burned, Lord Christopher froze.

When millennia ago, when Rome and Mongolia and the Muslims reigned supreme, their oracles and seers and prophets all spoke of a burning light coming to destroy the world and raise it from perdition into salvation through the blood of the guilty and the innocent, many ignored what also would come. We always envision a great ball of fire, or a burning chariot, or a massive explosion - we never see the ice until we are blue and dead under it. Lord Wyatt was prophesied (1), his sister, Melinda (2), was always meant to be, but Lord Christopher? No one saw him coming. As one oracle (3) put it, he would be the gods' knife in the dark, meant to act swiftly without being foreseen. Strike and cut the ways of change. A sleek, cold blade. Could any comparison be more true?

To cut the strings of time and mold the very world and all eleven realms to his bidding?

How could such a beast be foreseen?

(1) The prophecies of a Twice-Blessed Childe have been confirmed to exist, but it is unknown whether or not Lord Wyatt was the alleged Twice-Blessed Childe; there have been speculations to the fact (See A Great Evil: Villains Foretold) that the three Halliwell siblings that played roles in the Third World War all fit the profile for said prophecy, but as of yet, nothing has been confirmed by reliable sources.

(2) Melinda Prudence Halliwell, (AKA Melinda the Wicked, differs from Melinda the Great (i.e. Melinda Warren)), born CE 2007 to Piper Halliwell, a Charmed witch, and Leo Wyatt, a whitelighter, died CE 2022 by burning, is confirmed to have been predicted for millenia by Melinda the Good, the Oracle at Delphi, etc. (See A Great Evil: Villains Foretold).

(3) "one oracle" - this alleged oracle was never confirmed and never recorded. It is unknown who Anesia Baxter was referring to, though speculations exist (See To Be or Not to Be: Which Historical Figures Really Lived?)

NOTES FROM EDITOR: The rest of this authorised text remains primarily unedited for history's sake. No further annotations are foreseen, no corrections outside of grammarian rules exist, and very few "musings" from Anesia Baxter continue. Small passages of the text are in foreign and/or magical languages, but have remained untranslated as per request of the Union of Magical Realms and Mortal Nations (i.e. UMRMN).