Augh! It's a perfectly cromulant punctuation mark!

[valarltd]

Ellora's Cave does not take colons in their work.

But how the flaming Sea am I supposed to punctuate this sentence WITHOUT one?
“At the end, let only this be said: that all Ruvane Delkroy did, he did for love of Etarin.”

Comments

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

They think it's too formal.
(which is a step up from my ungenerous midnight assessment that they think their readers are too dumb)

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

It's not something I use a lot; practically never, in fact, but as a writer it's part of my toolkit and I wouldn't like to be deprived of it and have to make do with a hammer when I need a screwdriver.

It's too early to come up with a better analogy than that :-)