Therefore is Raven doth quoting ‘Cogito, ergo sum’, the phrase that anchors this stormy, chaotic world into reality. Words with the same power as ‘Let there be light’, the creation of self from a void. One does not need to prove one’s existence, perhaps not even one’s sanity, any more than realizing ‘I think, therefore I am’. The Nihileaf’s philosophy, or more specifically Stoke’s embodiment of it, is that to think is to logically and conclusively know that existence is hateful and the very state of being is despising. Ironically this realization can only ever be reached if one exists. For the Nihileaf this hatred can never be transformed, it can only cease in death. Not that existence is suddenly appealing or missed, just that there is no longer an ‘I think’ there to hate. – Zachary