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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3547430" data-attributes="member: 29014">"What do I want?  Like you, I want a lot of different things.  The germane thing for the current discussion is that I don't want myself or my children to be destroyed, and in pursuit of that goal, I want to stop the Crux peacefully.""I'll try to bring back your Wizard girl like I did with your Cleric, but I can't make any promises that it will work, once again.  As for finding Elpis, you'll need to do that part alone--there's a reason for it that you will see shortly.  It will be fast and you won't need Ashnar's help.  While you're doing that, I could work on bringing Ashnar back, perhaps.  It saves time overall.""Save Tenebrynn from his faith?  I don't understand--do you want me to make him denounce his religion?  If you mean the Crux, I know what's going on, but I'm not going to tell you just in case your friends get an idea to forfeit your soul and destroy us all.  All I can say is that your pixie friend will be fine once I peacefully deactivate the Crux, and perhaps even sooner than that.""I already said that I will.""You will probably have already been long gone here before I neutralise the tower safely.  The violent way is fast, but my way is slow and requires a large amount of research.  Thus, if you just leave, you will be fine.""Elpis will be my body until I can recover my own.  After that, I will have no need of her, and she may go.""As I said before, I will need to find a way to recover my body.  I don't know how, but I'll research it.  But I think you'll agree that researching the way to peacefully end the Crux is more important right now.""I plan to research a way to recover my body, as I told you, so I don't need to use Elpis's.""What am I?  Others will disagree, but I believe myself to be the true essence of Elayna Valsice, well at least most of the essence.  That's why my arcane powers are so much stronger than those of others.  I call myself Elayna.  Others have called me Sin...perhaps it is because of what I represent.  Since I am Elayna Valsice, this tower, these distortions, all of it is my Sin, as I attempted to do the impossible and control time.  It was in many ways a sin of Pride, and hence Pride is the strongest manifestations of my Sin.  They exist as reminders of my excesses--Eve and I have tried to discipline them to help them improve and recover from their sins.  Perhaps some day they will redeem themselves and thus redeem me, but I doubt it.  At least they usually don't cause much harm unless they get out of hand.  As to Eve, Eve was my first daughter, so I named her Eve after the old legend--she's a bit rough around the edges, but she's a nice girl."</blockquote>

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