Happy New Year, lovely readers! For good or ill, 2024 is gone, and it’s time to make something out of 2025.

On a personal note, whatever happens, survive. Everything else will happen as it happens, but you are more important than any other thing.

When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, it was an issue of great importance. When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, merchantry stopped and schoolchildren craned through windows to see. When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, Ravena never bothered to stay on...