The Path of the Warrior

There is no difference between an adult and a warrior. All adults are warriors. If one reaches the age of majority and is not a warrior, then they are an old child- but not an adult. Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. In the empire the idea of growing up meaning giving in. It means giving up your resistance. it means accepting your role as a slave and accepting your place as a cog: a gear in the Locust King’s great machine of devastation. That is now what adulthood means to the free tribes. Adulthood is earned in layers among the free tribes. A child learns the second song: to accept responsibility and to retain the ability to walk away. A child learns the third song: to think for oneself, care for oneself, and defend oneself. A child learns the four song: The laws one must follow to never fall to the way of the Locust. A child learns the fifth song: the skills of building one’s homestead. A child learns the sixth song: the tools for crafting the laws of one’s tribe. A child learns the seventh song: the skills to grow and deepen the culture of the tribe. An adult of the free tribes is a seed of the free path. They can be cast in any soil and they will grow into a new free tribe.

The child of the free tribe grows into a warrior. Because the free tribe is build of warriors who choose to join the tribe voluntarily, the adults of the free tribe are masters of their own fate. The adults of the Hungry Empire are slaves forced to pay for their own servitude lest they starve. The warriors of the free path are self sufficient, beholden to nothing. They contribute because they gain from the arrangement. The warrior is always free, even if caged.

The path of the warrior is a course of education designed in concert with the Song of Seven and the Path of the Firebird to create humans who cannot be enslaved, who cannot be broken, who cannot be subjegated, who cannot be stopped.

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  • The Path of the Warrior
    • The Initiation of the Applicant
    • The Apprentice
      • The Initiation of the The Junior Apprentice
      • The Initiation of the The Senior Apprentice
    • The Initiation of the The Warrior

Recommended Reading

  • Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps’ Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life, by Patrick Van Horne
  • The World Until Yesterday, by Jared Diamond