The Past Is the Fuel That Creates the Majesty of the Present

The past is the seed. It's the fuel that allows the great trees to exist on this light deprived planet, but of all the trees that's in the past. And it's the secret history of time that for the step of humanity towards the glorious platonic humanity, they have to be forged in the anvil of pain and suffering. So we really are getting into the point where Severean is building a case, right? He's starting to say that we need this death. We need that end in order to create the heights that we can get to.