Ormordnes.
The word carried heavy weight beyond its simple definition of despair.
Some across countless eras had attempted to capture its essence, to define what it meant when existence itself seemed to turn against hope.
Some held that Ormordnes was the recognition of unchangeable circumstance...the moment when one perceived that no amount of effort, no application of will, no intervention of fortune could alter what had already been set in motion.
It was not sadness at loss, but rather the profound acceptance that loss was inevitable and immutable.
To experience Ormordnes was to understand that one's struggle had always been futile, that the outcome was predetermined, and that all attempts to change it were merely theatrical gestures in a play whose ending had been written before its beginning.
