User blog comment:Varkanax39/Unsurprising News.../@comment-3412476-20140311161146

Well... dang it, I sure wish there were more meaningful things I could say. I totally understand your reasons for finally letting go, and wish you all the best in life's long journey.

Ever since I set foot in this community, I've deeply appreciated your easy-going attitude and mature viewpoint on matters. For me, you were an integral part of the Custom BIONICLE identity, of all we did and do here. I still remember the XMS with deep fondness and nostalgia, and truly, it has become a part of my own identity. In all my wanderings across the uncharted Internet, I've met but a handful of users, anywhere, who I seriously, deeply respected, and you're one of them. Your writing had its flaws, as we both know, but it sparked fires of creativity and ambition within me that might very well have gone unnoticed. Like ToaAuserv, whose BIONICLE fan fiction was solely pivotal in starting me down the writer's path, it was you who kept me going. Today, I hope to make a career of it... a decision I'd most likely never have even really considered had it not been for you.

Just thought I'd let you know, also, for what it's worth, that I plan on finishing Shadowfell this summer... I had lost interest over the last few months, but I'm starting to regain it once more, and it's my final tribute to the lasting legacy you left.

It was a good run, Varkanax. I'm not going to pretend that it doesn't hurt to see you go, but I'm glad that when you did go, it was with dignity, graciousness, and with no strings left dangling. (well, except the prequels, but they never really got started, sooo... XD)

Thanks for all you've done. You've inspired me time and again, and I honestly owe you more than I can express. Maybe one day, I'll dedicate a novel to a person I knew only as 'Varkanax39'... that'd be a fitting acknowledgement.

Farewell. Best of luck.