阳雷骑士真传 A True History of the Daythunder Knight

一位不知名作者的历史笔记，上面充满了涂改痕迹，似乎作者对自己的论点相当纠结。 Historical notes penned by an anonymous author. The pages are covered with edits and corrections, suggesting the author struggled with their conclusions.

（开头的一小段话有擦除重写的痕迹，并且作者的姓名被刻意抹去了）

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如果有人看到了这份笔记，发现历史的真相与自己的假设相去甚远——请不要感到奇怪。所谓历史，是在世的人们对往事的一致说法；如果某段历史的存在，本身就对世人构成了伤害……那么将它遗忘的人，也不该被斥责为愚者或懦夫。

If anyone reads this and finds that the historical truth differs greatly from their assumptions — don't be surprised. History is nothing more than the consensus of the living about the past. If a certain piece of history, by its very existence, causes harm to people... then those who choose to forget it should not be condemned as fools or cowards.

阳雷骑士塞涅俄丝，艾格勒神权的篡夺者，天空的融合神。如此强大的她，在刚刚离开天空之子大家庭的年少之时，也不过是一位被迫离群索居的普通姑娘。大家庭当中难免会产生基于派系的矛盾，晖之民与雨之民的争执也的确时有发生。但对少女塞涅俄丝而言，真正的麻烦在于，她流着黄金色的血液。

Daythunder Knight Seliose, usurper of Aquila's divine authority, Theos Synthetos of the sky. Such an incredibly powerful figure, and yet when she was a young girl, freshly cast out from the Skyfolk, she was nothing more than an ordinary girl forced into isolation. Within the large family, factional disputes were inevitable, and indeed, quarrels between the Sunfolk and the Rainfolk were frequent. But for the young Seliose, her true trouble lay in the fact that she bled golden blood.

黄金血既是天生神力的证明，也是「非我族类」的诅咒。少女厌倦了这种总是要打消他人疑虑的生活，于是踏上了流浪的旅程。在无言的旷野中，她遇到了露奈比斯和索拉比斯——与人类不同，她们之间轻松地建立起了信任，一同狩猎、成长、生活，拜师学艺、增广见闻。

Golden blood was both a mark of divine strength and a curse of being "other." The young girl grew weary of living a life where she constantly had to prove herself to others, so she embarked on a journey of wandering. In the silent wilderness, she encountered Lunabis and Solabis — beings unlike humans, with whom she quickly built trust, hunting, growing, and living together, taking them as her teachers to learn their arts and expanding her horizons.

不负一身黄金血，在游学多年之后，少女已然成长为举世无双的阳雷骑士，连天空中的艾格勒也不敢无视她的一双羽翼。或许是她在内心深处并不愿做一个孤独的强者，又或许是儿时拯救天空之子的理想从未离开她的心头——无论如何，作为一个强力的外来者，她重新回到了天空之子的部族当中，并宣布要替他们击落身为泰坦却无能懦弱的艾格勒，好让人们的生活踏入充满希望的全新阶段。

True to her golden blood, after many years of study far from home, the young girl had grown into the unparalleled Daythunder Knight, and even Aquila in the sky dared not ignore her wings. Perhaps deep inside, she never wished to be a lonely paragon, or maybe her childhood ideal of saving the Skyfolk had never left her heart. Whatever the reason, as a powerful outsider, she returned to the tribes of the Skyfolk and declared that she would strike down Aquila — the Titan who was weak and cowardly — so that people's lives could enter a new stage, one filled with hope.

我时常设想…如果阳雷骑士并没有拯救天空之子的愿望，一切会不会有所不同？如果她只是听凭自己的心意击落艾格勒，却并不邀请这些与她貌合神离的同胞一起分享战果…那么之后的许多悲剧是不是就可以避免？或许天空之子遵循他们过去的生活，依然可以从陨落的艾格勒身上得到慰藉；而让他们沿着过去的惯性自行其是，对如今的阳雷骑士而言也谈不上什么损失。

I often wonder... What if the Daythunder Knight hadn't desired to save the Skyfolk? Would things have turned out differently if she had simply struck down Aquila because she wanted to, without inviting her fellows — those who were so far apart from her in spirit — to share the victory? ...Could many of the tragedies that followed have been avoided? Perhaps the Skyfolk could have continued their old way of life, finding solace in the fallen Aquila. And perhaps, for the Daythunder Knight, letting them continue on their own path wouldn't have been much of a loss.

只可惜，历史没有如果。在我的眼中，阳雷骑士的真正心愿，可能是希望所有天空之子都成为像她那样孤高而自豪的骑士——她是真心实意用这种标准平等地爱着每一个人。但现实残酷地证明，比起成为精神上的贵族，大多数天空之子却更习惯于成为「跪族」。她越是厌恶艾格勒，就越有一些人像过去崇拜艾格勒一样去崇拜她自己——除了更换口号之外，一切简直毫无区别。

Unfortunately, history has no "what ifs." In my estimation, the Daythunder Knight's true wish may have been for all the Skyfolk to become proud and solitary knights like her. She sincerely wanted to love everyone equally using that lofty standard. But reality cruelly proved that, rather than becoming spiritual nobility, most Skyfolk were more disposed to become those of "no-ability." The more she despised Aquila, the more some began to worship her in the same way the previous generations had worshiped Aquila — except for the wording of their mottoes, nothing really differed.

而身为外来者，她只能用极端的暴力去控制这些自己想拯救的对象…就像一个习惯了动手打孩子的父母，只能用家庭暴力的语言去传达畸形的爱意（以她个人的理解而言，这的确是一种爱）。

As an outsider, she could only use extreme violence to control the very people she sought to save... much like a parent who, accustomed to hitting their children, can only express their distorted love through domestic violence (at least in her understanding, this was indeed a form of love).

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当初写成这篇小传的时候，事情还没有发展到不可挽回的状态。但今天过后…我将成为仅剩的天空之子，并按照与她的约定，为她所书写的这段历史在未来寻找全新的意义。

When this brief biography was originally written, the situation wasn't yet beyond saving. But after today... I will be the last of the Skyfolk, and according to the agreement with her, I will search for new meaning for the history she has written in the future.

我不知道我（以及我的后代）能不能完成这项使命…如果有人看到了这份笔记，那么相信到那时，你会有属于你自己的判断。

I don't know if I (or my descendants) will ever complete this mission... But if someone reads these notes, then I believe by that time, you may judge for yourself.