The Battle of Rolak

Historian accounts vary on the battle of Rolak.  I'll include two such accounts so you can get a feel for how history is written by those who stand the most to gain.

"The battle of Rolak started out as a merchant uprising.  Spurred on by incorrect claims of high taxes and road tolls, the merchants assaulted a nearby artillery training operation and exploded the ordinance there, during the assault several artillery shots were misattributed to Ronerawth military but in fact were the merchants trying to draw citizen support.  Claims of Followers of the Fire God directly and openly attacking Ronerawthian military are widely discredited.  Damage to Rolak proper is also widely misattributed, some claim half the city burnt down with thousands dead gunned down by Ronerawth military forces, these claims are preposterous and in fact most likely made up by the very merchants who held the town post battle."

As you can probably guess this account was written by a person trying to desperately show that the uprising was caused by greedy merchants, and Ronerawth would never ever assault its own citizens.  Now for a different account.

"The battle of Rolak was started by the empire of Ronerawth, they brutally murdered a family of four at a toll road including raping one of the women before killing her.  After there was outcry in the city at this terrible act the Ronerawthian military turned their artillery on the city proper, most of the citizen in the city were murdered in the assault with some estimates as high as 90% of the population.  It was only a horrific act of sacrifice from an unnamed citizen to light the artillery batteries on fire that ended the shelling and allowed the remaining citizens to toss off their oppressors and reclaim Rolak (what was left of it) for their own."

As you can see the truth is in the middle, well sort of, there isn't really a middle between blatant lies (I should know, uhhh not that I lie ever... of course, moving on).  No entry thankfully mentions my involvement, and few mention the Followers of Fire, for much the same reason. Its unbelieveable to think a revolution was started by flame throwing magic user and a religion that believes in martial conflict.  Much easier to think it was simply citizens taking back their government with little to know outside help.  Works for me, I'd rather my mark on history not be noted, because I want to live forever, and everyone knowing where I've been and what I've been doing kind of screws that up.  So aside from this journal which hopefully is never discovered, I'm free from notation in most of histories accounts of anything. Kind of sad now that I think about it, I'm happy to be unknown, well aside from owning a shop in a major port city currently, shhh, best to hide in plain sight.