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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1637836" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Orshallan is an excellent speaker and a skilled orator, and he makes what might be a rather confusing ceremony for you rather interesting.  There's a great deal of pagentry in Heironeous' faith, with careful processions, use of various relics and artifacts, and very specific rites.**But what catches your attention is when Orshallan goes to the pulpit to deliver his sermon.  The subject today is on evil and redemption.*"The sins of the evil, the vile, the wicked, the most heinous crimes against the heavens can be cleansed and washed away if someone truly wants to change.  For those that cannot even see the reasons, they can be made to see the light with care and persistance.  Demons can even be redeemed, though one must always do this with great care.  And protective magics," he says the last with a hint of humor, and a faint chuckle ripples through the crowd.  "One must show those who are wicked the benefits of the light.  A relationship built on kindness will last longer, be stronger, and have far more benefits than those based on power, manipulation, and dominance.  One that you love will do things for you simply because they wish do.  One who is enslaved will only do what they are forced to.  A slave would never praise, only simper.  One you love, and who loves you, will show you respect, kindness, and devotion."To help redeem the wicked, one much be patient and persistant, and never give up, even in the face of overwhelming adversity.  Never doubt yourself, or the innate goodness of all living things.  Good will indeed triumph in the end, for all the good things of the world will be stronger and last for much longer than any evil thing.  Hate is not boundless, for it will burn itself up.  But love, kindess, virtue, these things live forever."*Loviana is rather sure that Orshallan caught her eyes a couple times at least.  His gaze was piercing, like a sharp ray of sunlight.  If she wants, Loviana can return to her room until her midnight stroll.  As the moon rises and the air fades to black and blue, Orshallan arrives at Larissa's room to escort her to the gardens.  He wears only a simple cream-colored linen robe along with an ornate golden holy symbol.  He smiles and hand her a yellow rose to twine in her hair.  Holding his arm out for her to take as if they were at a noble's party, he leads her to the gardens, and within them to a secluded arbor.*"Larissa... I greatly desired to talk to you today, but it took me until now to find the words," he began gently, holding both of her hands.  "I believe truth is very important in all things, and yet it is not a luxury that a man born into my strata of society can always afford.  But I must be truthful to you, whatever the cost.  I have not known you long Larissa... but I do like you a great deal.  When I first saw you in the Honor's Shield, I will admit I was startled.  Several years ago there was a woman I loved that had raven hair and blue eyes, and for a moment you reminded me of her."But you were very different from that lady.  She died unexpetedly of an illness when she went to visit her parents, and did not wish to return to the land of the living when she was quite happy in the heavens.  I had seen myself as alone in the world again until I met you.  When you nearly died, I was stricken, and took it upon myself to see you would not suffer your terrible fate.  I was haunted, wondering if I was trying to save my departed by saving you.  But as I have talked and traveled with you these past few days I have seen that I have not.  I like you for whom you are, not what my departed was.  Orshallan sighs.  "I am a cautious man Larissa, though a man who cares for a woman is supposed to throw caution to the wind.  I have tried to discern your heart so that I would not be intruding on something on which I was not welcome.  Larissa, I see a shadow on your heart, your soul, your very name.  What should be clear to me is obstructed, veiled, laced with confusion.  Please, what is it that places this on you?"~~~  *Rosalyn dives in with a will, her lips hungry and searching, her hands caressing almost frantically.  It soon becomes obvious that she was watching Scarlet, Pearl, and Chastity's performance very carefully, even through her emotional anguish.  She cries out Torr's name and professes her love over and over again as the night goes on.  She is quite willing to do anything you ask of her, anything at all.*~~~  *Devon moans in his throat at his mistress' caress, but then pulls himself back slightly.*"Innocent and devout are always the most repressed, and often the most willing once they're broken.  Illusions often work, illusions showing yourself as a loved one and speaking harsh words.  Meddling with their mines, adding a memory or two of weakness that you can exploit are always fun.  And simply learning their secret fantasies and making them see how truly wicked they are, or think they are... it will bring them down quickly enough," Devon says with a toothy smile.~~~  *Wode listens to everything Aekir has to say, a faint expression of alarm on its face.  Looking at the sketches, its face loses some of its color.*"I'll need you in two day's time for a mission outside of Andeluvay, assassination mission.  We'll have a weapon for you by then," it says tersely, looking at Aekir with eyes far too bright.</blockquote>

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