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<blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 1094" data-attributes="member: 41"><p><strong>8-- Left adrift, Interlude</strong></p><p></p><p>As the days blur past, one just like the former while adrift in Elemental Air, Taran has a pair of powerful dreams:</p><p></p><p>In the first, he is a great general, and has led his forces against a previously unbeaten foe. The dream takes place the night before a decisive battle. A battle he knows his men cannot win, but one he has committed them to out of pride and anger. It is a painfully poignant dream--he is addressing his officer corps, and gives them his pessimistic appraisal of their chances. He offers each one of them an opportunity to withdraw and return home, with no loss of honor. To their credit, they reply to a man that they will not leave his side.</p><p></p><p>The next phase of the dream takes place after this battle. Taran has been captured his troops defeated, and he is led in chains through a crowd of jeering foreign commoners, on his way to be beheaded. He is cursed by the enemy priests, and informed that the manner of his execution will prevent his soul from traveling into the afterlife, dooming him to a restless undeath.</p><p></p><p>He awakens with hatred in his heart, and the name of Ishlok on his lips. His foes were Ishlokians, that is for sure--his enemies named themselves after the Goddess he so passionately reveres. Even the wise council of Kyreel cannot answer that riddle, but they both agree that he is remembering his lives before this one, in the manner of the <em>Pasoun</em>.</p><p></p><p>His second dream is reoccurring and much more pleasant. In that one he recalls the friendship of a silver dragon, a being who--he is sure-- was a boon companion in this misty half-remembered life. As his dreams intensify, he seems to undergo a subtle physical alteration. He finds that through concentration he can enhance his speed and stamina, or cause a faint shimmering of silver dragon scales to rise on his skin, toughening his hide. The dragon's name is Galathonriel, and their souls, it seems, are intertwined.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(contact), post: 1094, member: 41"] [b]8-- Left adrift, Interlude[/b] As the days blur past, one just like the former while adrift in Elemental Air, Taran has a pair of powerful dreams: In the first, he is a great general, and has led his forces against a previously unbeaten foe. The dream takes place the night before a decisive battle. A battle he knows his men cannot win, but one he has committed them to out of pride and anger. It is a painfully poignant dream--he is addressing his officer corps, and gives them his pessimistic appraisal of their chances. He offers each one of them an opportunity to withdraw and return home, with no loss of honor. To their credit, they reply to a man that they will not leave his side. The next phase of the dream takes place after this battle. Taran has been captured his troops defeated, and he is led in chains through a crowd of jeering foreign commoners, on his way to be beheaded. He is cursed by the enemy priests, and informed that the manner of his execution will prevent his soul from traveling into the afterlife, dooming him to a restless undeath. He awakens with hatred in his heart, and the name of Ishlok on his lips. His foes were Ishlokians, that is for sure--his enemies named themselves after the Goddess he so passionately reveres. Even the wise council of Kyreel cannot answer that riddle, but they both agree that he is remembering his lives before this one, in the manner of the [i]Pasoun[/i]. His second dream is reoccurring and much more pleasant. In that one he recalls the friendship of a silver dragon, a being who--he is sure-- was a boon companion in this misty half-remembered life. As his dreams intensify, he seems to undergo a subtle physical alteration. He finds that through concentration he can enhance his speed and stamina, or cause a faint shimmering of silver dragon scales to rise on his skin, toughening his hide. The dragon's name is Galathonriel, and their souls, it seems, are intertwined. [/QUOTE]
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