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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kirinke" data-source="post: 2725210" data-attributes="member: 15409">[sblock] "I don't know. When I was young, I was taken captive by cultists. They killed my parents, sacrificed them. I was next. They tried." Alethia face screwed up at the memory, horrible as it was. "They took me to a ruined temple of Selune. They tried something, tried to defile the temple and tried to corrupt me. The ritual failed and they were destroyed somehow. But the taint remains. My rescuers, the tribesmen that adopted me say that the cultists bore the marks of Shar. My teachers said the taint was probably due to the failed ritual. A kind of spiritual scar. My own superiors tried to remove the taint. They failed." she blinked owlishly. "I don't understand it either. If you wish answers, ask Selune herself or your own gods. I have tried asking, but the only answer I've ever gotten is 'what has happened cannot be undone by mortal hands, what will be is up to you and you alone,'"She shook her head, trying to clear it and as best as she can, she tells them of what has transpired since she arrived in Waterdeep, leaving nothing out. She tells them of Aleena's capture, her father's death. Aiden's 'timely' arrival. The attacks made by the undead dragon and the evil fey. The evil mulhorandi priests on board the ship that sank. The undead swarms. She tells them of the sword that Timrin bears and how he came by it. She tells them of Oberon's suggestion to find the sister sword to Timrin's. She tells them of Aiden's offer of the ship and their own reasonings to take up his offer. She finishes the tale."I don't trust Aiden Zarun. His arrival was too timed, too convient. He is garnering too much favor, too quickly. He knows how to play the crowd, he has made it seem like he was the one behind the victory, when he has only played a small part among many others. I do not know what his motivations are, only that they are suspect. Something is off with him. Something is wrong." she looked at the caster. "The situation in Waterdeep is far from over and whatever evil is behind it has been at least two steps ahead of us. We don't even know who is truly behind the attacks," she said truthfully. "We do know that the Unseelie court is involved somehow as well as the Aurilites and the evil Mulhorandi gods Annubis and Sobek."ooc:I figure that the ritual bound the demon's spirit to Alethia's soul, hence the temporary ability drain if and when he does manifest, because he will be drawing some of her strength inadvertantly through the link. The only reason why the ritual failed to corrupt her soul is because the demon isn't evil. She truly doesn't know that she's possessed. And from your description, Alethia's been given a dose of the fantasy equivalent of sodium pentathol aka truth-serum.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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