None of this would have happened if it wasn't for my actions, though.

[Wan muttered, putting his head in his hands as he felt the old guilt rise up again. He couldn't change the past and he couldn't get away from it and even ten thousand years later the world was feeling the repercussions of his one singular, supreme act of stupidity.]

So much of this could have been avoided if I hadn't acted without getting the whole story just that once.