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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isklexi" data-source="post: 6868041" data-attributes="member: 6684948">Requiem for a GoddessIrony met with Calaphax at the Navras Opera for a showing of “The Marriage of Achaea and Hibiscus”.[sblock]Calaphax asked Irony why she continued to place her faith in a dead god. Irony responded that it was about having faith in what Srasama represented and staying true to her beliefs. Cal pointed out that Srasama had failed the Eladrin and brought their people to ruin with her final act. Irony retorted that faith is what helped keep her people from dying out entirely.Cal then asked her what she knew of the Clergy Godhands. He explained that before they were repurposed to hunt her people, the Godhands were charged with hunting down the remnants of the Demonocracy and ensuring they would never harm mortals again. Specifically, when a fiend is slain, its soul doesn’t return to hell. Instead, the befouled spirit seeps into the land and corrupts it. For this reason, the Clergy Godhands were trained in containing and sealing away the spirits of the former fiendish lords. The same principle applies to the divine as well as the profane. When Srasama died, her essence and power seeped into Lanjyr. The immortal Devas were one symptom of her lingering essence and another manifestation of the dead goddess’ power was Irony herself.Irony asked what Cal meant, and he told her. Irony was born with a spark of the dead goddess’ power within her. As her power grows, the spark would grow with her, and the scattered remnants of Srasama’s essence would be drawn to her. With time and effort, Irony could replace her fallen deity. Irony dismissed Cal by glibly saying that being a god sounded like an awful lot of work. Cal told her it was a lot of work, but Irony’s people needed her and no one else could do it. He told her to keep all of this in mind and be ready to seize her opportunity when it comes.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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