Hello Everyone:
Life is a humorous adventure to those who really stop and consider where our travels take us along our journey from cradle to grave.
Sometimes we are invisible and we pass others like a shadow of the wind, never leaving a trace of our presence.
Sometimes the most innocent gesture of an afterthought can set in motion a force that changes forever the lives of others.
We travel on the journey called life and we encounter many people. Some barely register and others are like a bolt of lightning, commanding our attention.
Mason Purcell, AKA Fawzia dokhtar-i-Sanjar, was one of those latter people. Love her or hate her, you simply could not ignore her.
Mason is my friend. I am proud to call her that. We swapped tales of our lives, laughed at each other’s stories and shared our fears and frustrations that life brought to our respective doorstep.
Life has an annoying habit of dealing tragic situations to people who really do not deserve it and like a bad hand at cards, we must play what cards we are dealt, no matter what.
It was through my friendship with Mason that I learned that she was dealt a tragic hand. The cancer which she has been fighting for the last five years will finally claim her life sometime this week, likely sooner than later. As I write this, Hospice and her husband are working to make the last hours of her life mostly pain free.
How this matters to you, the players of who have enjoyed Prophesy of Pendor, is that both Version 3.x and the Warband port are due directly to her desire to keep busy and keep working on this project as a means to give her a reason for living through the pain and anguish she endured these last two years.
While I may have had the vision and insight to create this body of work, it was Mason who was the heart and soul that made it a reality. It is why, release after release, that I dedicated the work to her as a token of appreciation and acknowledgement of what she brought to our labor and ultimately what she brought to you, the many players who have played and enjoyed Prophesy of Pendor.
While she would loathe this public display of tribute and take me to task for writing it, I would remind her that this is not for her; this is about her.
It is about how she became a force that changed lives. It is about the recognition of a portion of a life that mattered, that her work and her passion made a difference in ways that are incalculable to a great many people in many parts of the world.
Thank you Mason. Thank you for everything.
Kindest regards,
Saxondragon
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Mason Passed away Feburary 27th in her home in Virginia.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the
Albemarle County SPCA,
P.O. Box 7047,
Charlottesville, VA 22906
or
Hospice of the Piedmont,
675 Peter Jefferson Parkway,
Suite 300,
Charlottesville, VA 22911.
With Sadness,
Saxondragon
