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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2088255" data-attributes="member: 8944">What He Remembers The structure of the early church had not been finalized (or even started) while Thane was still alive, so far as the Bluestar remembers.  When they were adventuring together, he recalls in various instances the loss of the Apecto's faith in the old gods, and a growing suspicion that there was something...beyond them.  Eventually, Oberon confirmed much of what the Apecto had come to suspect, though the Bluestar remained suspicious of the existence of any truly benevolent deific force, regardless of its name, appearance, etc.   From the Bluestar's perspective (after his own fall from mortality), the Apecto was a general, a warrior - not a church administrator.  He had followers, certainly - but they were organized more like a military company than a church.  Thane was only truly immortalized as a saint after his death, and the church has grown over the last thousand years, gaining theological stability in the wake of Thane's great sacrifice.  All the Bluestar can recall with certainty is that an "Apectan Church" had not arisen in any concrete form until at least a century after her had been trapped in the North.    The Bluestar remembers being slain more than once, usually by the mace that the Bluestar asked you to protect (it seems obvious now why he did not want to keep it).  When they met personally on the field (instead of slaying each other's minions) the Bluestar would try to slay the Apecto with a powerful spell, but the Apecto's skill with abjuration was strong - he was usually more than protected enough to block the attack, though injury often resulted, anyway.  The Bluestar was able to kill the Apecto only because he overextended himself, holding The Bluestar long enough that the Deathward could be completed.    The Bluestar turned on no one!  He came to see the greater truths, and sought what was rightfully his - the world.  They failed to give him his due, and by that, turned on him. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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