Quote:Greetings everyone. We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of

scholar, a guard, a papilion, and a friend.

To say this is a day of mourning would be only half correct. This is a

day of healing. A chance to honor the fallen. It is said those who

dedicate their lives to others are fools. Those who are not remembered

for how they helped, but because of their action. Their pilgrimage

unfinished. Their legacy all that is left.

I could go on listing all of his acomplishments, his faults, his fears,

his triumphs. But that is not a way to move forward. Roje Sutia was a

kind hearted man. He enjoyed helping those he cared about. He has a

passion for his work, made strides in artifact research and guardship as

well.

This is a memorial. A memorial to his final legacy. Roje was not a hero.

He was not famous. But yet, he impacted so many in his time on this

plane; good or bad. Rather or not history remembers him. Or an

afterlife or not. His life and what he did with it will always live on

with each and everyone of those here today, and those he worked with in

the past.

I cannot pretend to know what brings men joy. Of what drives them to

great deeds. Of what legacies they hope to leave, I know less yet. But I

do know this. Everything happens for a reason. Rather that reason is

clear at the moment, is not seen. Some, it may take years to reveal the

ripple. The loss of a life is a tragic one, I do not downplay that. But

it also a time to celebrate the departed's life.

Roje's physical life has come to and end. And in my generalized

understanding, I would think he would not want people to cry. He want

those who wish for it to have their moment to grieve. And once they're

done, to suck up the tears. And stop that darn crying. Roje would want

you all to move forward. Continuing your path to whatever destination is

laid in front of them.