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This monument has been methodically destroyed. One of the shards shows a victorious elven general. Written firmly across the smiling stone face are veilfire runes:
Here is the folly of Meranadas, dreamer and defender of Arlathan. He broke the ragged blades of the Hungering Brethren; he laid the head of the Moon-Bred Serpent at the Vunin Gates.
In his arrogance, he thought to claim these Crossroads for the glory of Arlathan alone. Upon these peaks, he set these monuments.
But he returned to find Arlathan lost and his people scattered, and those who sheltered the stranger and fed the hungry were greater heroes than he.
Here is the folly, and here also the lesson: Pride bears us to the heights, and pride casts us from them.