Valhalla is two-thirds done and the game knows it. The session has the texture of a story that understands its own shape, the gathering of forces, the approach to a resolution that is still several sessions away. The struggle has accumulated meaning precisely because it has been unrelenting.

What the epigram understands is that the story is the struggle, not the outcome. Ravensthorpe exists because something was difficult to build. The alliances hold because someone paid to maintain them. The life worth remembering is the one that kept going when stopping was available.