A glorious opportunity.
That was the framing Evangelina had used, and Noah did not find it dishonest. The framing just had context around it that she had not emphasized. Ealdor Gilded Ones had stopped entering because the risk to their lives was unacceptable. Many prior entrants had died. By any honest accounting, the Wall was a place where the most powerful beings in the current arrangement of existence had encountered a ceiling on what their power could protect them from.
He was excited!
Not despite the danger. Because of it. Because challenge and risk and adversity compressed progression the way nothing else did, and an unknown space where Ealdor Gilded Ones refused to go was precisely the kind of danger that produced the kind of growth he could not manufacture through any other means. He wanted it to be as dangerous as possible.
