If you can find and ascend the tower, you will live forever. You will hold power over matter, time, and every other aspect of reality you may conceive. Names you won't lack, and you will, in time, be all men that can ever be. The name my mother gave me, I don't remember.  The tower's sister, Karerak, calls me Unnamed One. But any first name you can imagine, i probably wore it with pride while I played mortal.If you can find and ascend the tower, you will live forever. It isn't optional. And while blessed is one who lives for a century and maybe even one who reaches a millennium, several of them... I find it unbearable. So now, with this diary and the tower as witnesses, I am going to spurn Ilucaris' gift. If ascending made me a god, descending should make me a man again. Less than man, according to Karerak's words. At the bottom floor of Ilucaris lies my mortality, or perhaps even my death. And I find either of them preferable to another year of immortality. [This fiction participates in the Royal Road Magazine, January 2024 edition]