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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 8478379" data-attributes="member: 6816692"><p><strong>The day her world broke down (...again)</strong></p><p></p><p>We return to our rooms in the palace just in the same sneaky way we left earlier. But we all immediately realize that someone must have been in our rooms and searched them. We find no magical sensors or poison, so at least nothing too nefarious, but Gabriel's fine nose tells him that these smells belong to the Rajputs of Ajit. Gabriel and Kasvarina confront them about that fact, but they deny any involvement and don't give us any hint about their possible motive. We suspect that the Rajputs must have operated on the orders of Ajit, so we discuss on how to deal with this obvious violation of trust.</p><p></p><p>We suspect that, coming from all that we know about the time when Kasvarina installed Ajit as the leader of Ushanti, that Patriarch may very well be an Obs officer and loyal to Obs-Kasvarina. Carlyle makes it very clear that he doesn't want to stay any second longer in a place that's obviously not safe for them. He fears there might be a nightly ambush and also that our whole mission might fail if we take too many risks here. Auryn is even more disgusted by Ajit and his character as he's someone who dishonors the privacy of his guests, and more importantly his matriarch. But unlike Gabriel, she doesn't want to leave. Instead she argues to dethrone the guy and rid him of his power so that Ushanti may become a safe place again without being in control of the Obs. She adds that several older Eladrin appear to be loyal to their original matriarch and would certainly support that change of direction. This wouldn't need a violent coup, she explains, as Ajit's power was given by Kasvarina and so it would be her privilege to strip it from him again.</p><p></p><p>Carlyle isn't too happy with the prospect of a coup, no matter how peaceful as it will still cause trouble, disruption and draw attention. In addition, he points out that Kasvarina might not be comfortable with taking on the role of High Matriarch again, especially as she is still missing pivotal memories from her past life.</p><p></p><p>“She doesn't have to stay here. All she has to do is to invoke her right as the High Matriarch and change the way Ushanti is run. Think of all the good she could do with one single act.”, Auryn says.</p><p></p><p>“And I fear that you are projecting your own political ambitions on Kasvarina. This isn't your decision, it is hers. I know that you would gladly take this political responsibility, but Kasvarina might not want to be part of this conflict. She is still vulnerable.”</p><p></p><p>“She is no child you need to protect... she was, is, a Matriarch of Elfaivar. No matriarch would sneak away like a criminal in the middle of the night. And you know the danger of having Obscurati be in charge of a well-connected, powerful Eladrin enclave. ”</p><p></p><p>“And maybe she doesn't want to fulfill this role. Even if you would. Remember, we both agreed to not influence her in any direction.”</p><p></p><p>“We both did...” Auryn agrees with a sigh.</p><p></p><p>So we turn to Kasvarina and talk about all of her possible actions so she may choose which path to follow.</p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)">(That is... some sort of recurring theme with both our characters. There are several points in the campaign where we got the strong impression that it wasn't our place to decide, but to have the person who is either in charge or the center of the story forge their own path. Which... of course put more pressure on the DM.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)">Oh and yes, Auryn is totally projecting how she would handle things on Kasvarina. Even if removing Ajit was a legitimate option. Also Ajit...Cajit? I somehow imagined him to be a fat guy with cat ears)</span></p><p></p><p>Kasvarina decides that regaining her memories need to have priority as she doesn't feel comfortable deciding on anything without getting the full perspective. She isn't keen on sneaking away though, so she'd rather stay till morning to say goodbye properly. We offer her to take on Ajit should she feel the need to confront him. But for now she prefers to simply watch him and his actions.</p><p></p><p>Carlyle sleeps with one eye open, and so does Asrabey. When the morning breaks, Kasvarina wants to leave, so we inform Ajit that we'll have to leave this very same day. He treats us with an opulent breakfast where many of the enclave's inhabitants are invited as well. Despite this obvious attempt on making us stay, we formally say goodbye and continue with our journey.</p><p></p><p>While we're on our way back to Kellandia, we're suddenly being ambushed by a group of Eladrin warriors. On a closer look we are quite shocked to see that these guys are actually Rajputs from Ushanti. Fortunately they don't pose too much of a threat for the four of us and so we manage to bet them unconscious without getting more than scratches.</p><p></p><p>We tie them all up and question them on their motives for attacking us. After all, from all we've seen, they just attempted to take their Matriarch's life. But the group decides to stay silent. While we're merely frustrated, Asrabey is not having it. He demands justice and agrees with Carlyle's assessment that these guys attempted to murder two noble Eladrin women, both the High Matriarch and her descendant. A crime that is being punished with death.</p><p></p><p>When the Rajputs don't show any emotion or motion at all, Asrabey takes his sword, sentences the first one to death under the rule of the Enclaves of Elfaivar and decapitates him. None of the others intervene; Kasvarina because she is still too confused on what's going on, Auryn because she is heavily repulsed by Ajit and his goons and still adheres to her people's traditions and Gabriel because he knows that this isn't a Risuri's place to intervene in a foreign country's system of law and order. Asrabey continues to execute the Rajputs without remorse while the other three watch the cruel spectacle in silence. When he is about to put the last of them to the sword, the Rajputs pleads to explain himself and we finally find an excuse to stop Asrabey.</p><p></p><p>The Rajput says that he was acting on Ajit's orders (as we suspected) and that both he and the Patriarch came to the conclusion that Kasvarina must be under some kind of spell. After all, she didn't display the secret signs she had shown them so long ago which would signal her safe and free return to Ushanti. And as she wasn't showing any signs of distress or giving them hints on what was going on, a charm spell would be the only logical explanation.</p><p></p><p>“You fool.”, Kasvarina replies. “There is no spell on me, and you could have checked this quite easily. I don't want to drag my family into this old business. And who is Ajit to question my reasons for not giving stupid signs? Now go back to Ajit and tell him that I'll be watching him. And that I have changed and he'd better leave me and my family alone.”</p><p></p><p>She then orders Asrabey to release the Rajput who runs off to Ushanti immediately.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)">(Again, leaving the choice for Kasvarina and dear, she has some growth here. While Asrabey demonstrates that he's made from a totally different kind of wood.)</span></p><p></p><p>We then return to Seobriga as we hope that Corta Nariz' preparations for the memory of Rilego have progressed since we've over a week ago left. And just as we thought, the daughter of Bruse Cavallo has already established a plan on how to safely trigger Kasvarina's memory. She shows us how she would have her clerks, specialists and mages prepare the whole area: They would evacuate the block and restrict the area of the memory site. Then the mages and we should add some illusions to make the dragonfire bomb defusing look real and explosive.</p><p></p><p>We agree and proceed with her plan the next day. The mages establish the outer illusions to block any view on a maybe emerging dragon figure and Kasvarina dons the Arc of Reida. The scenery immediately shifts and suddenly all surrounding buildings are on fire. Next to Kasvarina, a group of Eladrin soldiers emerges out of thin air, including Latika and Sor Daeron.</p><p></p><p>The very same moment, Auryn disappears and reappears in the character of Launga who is being carried by Rilego in his claws. The massive dragon lands on one of the buildings' roofs and pins Launga to the ground. Kasvarina rushes to the building and begs Rilego to spare her daughter and turn to her instead. But then she is suddenly stabbed in the back by Sor Daeron.</p><p></p><p>“I know what you have done, <em>High Matriarch</em>”, Latika proclaims coldly. “And you and all of your family will pay the price for this ultimate treason”</p><p></p><p>With this signal, Rilego uses his fiery breath on Launga and Kasvarina cries out in terror. Auryn-Launga shrieks as well, but falls immediately silent the moment the fire touches her. The two women split, leaving Auryn unconscious next to Rilego's claw and Launga half-charred and still underneath it.</p><p></p><p>Kasvarina's warrior and maternal reflexes set in after that brief moment of terror and she rushes into the building to get to Launga and Rilego. Sor Daeron orders his men to follow and kill her, but Kasvarina retaliates with a quick chain lightning, roasting them all and making part of the building collapse on Sor Daeron. She then hurls powerful spells at the dragon who lifts off. Rilego then picks up Latika who tries to take him as a ride out. But Kasvarina orders the dragon with a word of power to drop her and Latika falls to her death. Kasvarina then picks up her dead child, holds her close to her chest and utters cries of rage, despair and pain.</p><p></p><p>Carlyle meanwhile moves closer to the building while making sure that he doesn't cause an accidental collapse. This way, he can see that one-armed Sor Daeron has actually survived the falling walls as he crawls out of the rubble and flees the scene. Auryn regains her consciousness only to see Kasvarina in her worst state possible. The memory event ends and Launga disappears from Kasvarina's arms. Still the tears are running down her face and the Matriarch is still very much overtaken by feelings of grief and despair as she now not only knows what truly happened to Launga, but also that she failed to prevent her daughter's death and was betrayed by people she trusted.</p><p></p><p>Auryn wraps her arms around Kasvarina to comfort her while Gabriel checks that neither of the two has suffered any dangerous injury.</p><p></p><p>“Thank the gods that Sor Daeron didn't know about Launga's daugher...” Auryn whispers.</p><p></p><p>“Neither did I.”, Kasvarina adds, her voice still shaking. “In that moment, I truly lost all I cared for. Now I understand... why I hated Rilego with all of my heart.”</p><p></p><p>“I... am so sorry.” says Asrabey who really didn't know jack about his wife's cruel past.</p><p></p><p>Gabriel waits for Kasvarina to take a breath and get some distance to the memory before he tells her with a fair bit of reluctance what he, and only he, saw in the vision: That Sor Daeron managed to survive and flee. And as he left the remaining part of Kasvarina's family alone, he was either oblivious to their existence or just moved on to hide from what he had done there. Which is why there would be a tiny chance that he'd be still alive and a potential way to understand what it was that “Kasvarina had done” to make both an Eladrin General and a High Matriarch want to hurt Kasvarina that much before they would eradicate all traces of her existence.</p><p></p><p>Of course Asrabey isn't having it as he would gladly end the traitor's life for the pain he had caused. Kasvarina is terrified by the thought at fist, but realizes that her hot wrath doesn't reappear when speaking or thinking about a possible present-day Sor.</p><p></p><p>“What's done is done. And if this worm of a man is still alive and we can use him for information, then so be it. I may decide whether I need revenge after we got what we need.” she says.</p><p></p><p>So we agree to first check whether Sor Daeron would still exist and where we could find him. The first one is be a bit obvious as our divination attempts are being blocked and do not simply fade without reaction. But it appears as if the man is warded by quite the powerful protection spells. After a few minutes, we realize that someone is trying to scry us back, to no success as well.</p><p></p><p>Being the only one without a direct connection to either Kasvarina or Sor Daeron, Gabriel offers to contact the man in his position as agent of Risur to get a chance to talk to him. We agree with this plan as he wouldn't have any reason to fear an RHC agent. So Gabriel uses a sending spell where he introduces himself as a Knight of Risur and secret agent who is trying to unearth a conspiracy which is threatening the world. Which is why he would need to know what atrocities Kasvarina had committed in her past. Sor reluctantly agrees to meeting him and asks Carlyle to come to an eladrin community near Citada de Cavallo.</p><p></p><p>We travel there immediately and Gabriel proceeds on his own from there. He meets the ancient Eladrin in a tavern where he appears to be a senile old man. But he quickly learns that this is only a partial truth as several of Sor's mannerisms are actually a guise. He sits down next to Sor, introduces himself and orders the local soup before he proceeds in a telepathic exchange.</p><p></p><p>Carlyle tells Sor that he knows he escaped Kasvarina's wrath in Seobriga the day Rilego killed her daughter and as Kasvarina's past might be the key in unlocking the secret society threatening the current state of the world, he needs to know what Sor and Latika had learned about the Matriarch's crimes. Sor Daeron seems to feel remorse for what happened in Seobriga and explains that the man he is today would have never dragged an innocent girl into this mess as both he and Latika wanted to kill Kasvarina first and foremost. But their plan failed and so he had to hide from her wrath for centuries. For what she had done, he explains that there was this merchant who smelled like he had too many cigarettes who gave him documents that proved that Kasvarina was the one who had killed Srasama and ushered in the Fall and the Malice. In addition, he had given them hints on where to find Launga and one thought lead to the next.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, Sor doesn't remember the details on the “proof” the merchant had given them and alas, all of this wasn't really worth it in the end. Just like Vekesh said, revenge only causes more and more pain and he is past living his whole life in fear of Kasvarina. But what he feels most sorry for is that they had abducted Launga.</p><p></p><p>Carlyle clenches his teeth before he stands up. “You didn't 'abduct' Launga, Sor Daeron. You sacrificed an innocent woman to a dragon tyrant so that beast could maim and murder her. May this memory stay with you for the rest of your life.”</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)">(...just Carlyle things)</span></p><p></p><p>Then he leaves the tavern and returns to the rest of us. He tells us all that he's learned and makes sure that Asrabey understands that Sor Daeron's current existence would be far more miserable than giving him the mercy of a quick death. He stresses out that Sor had lead a life full of fear and then asks Kasvarina whether she'd want to face the man one last time to maybe find closure. To our all surprise, she accepts the offer.</p><p></p><p>It takes quite a while until she enters the tavern and even longer to leave it again. When Kasvarina returns, her eyes are filled with tears once again and she states that she didn't want to kill Sor Daeron, even if he'd understand it if she felt the need to end his life. But she wouldn't forgive him either as his crime cannot be forgiven by any means. All she could do was to shake off her old feelings of needing revenge.</p><p></p><p>“You don't have to forgive him.”, Auryn says, “and he isn't important. All that matters is that you can find closure and move on so maybe the cycle of hatred can finally come to an end.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 8478379, member: 6816692"] [B]The day her world broke down (...again)[/B] We return to our rooms in the palace just in the same sneaky way we left earlier. But we all immediately realize that someone must have been in our rooms and searched them. We find no magical sensors or poison, so at least nothing too nefarious, but Gabriel's fine nose tells him that these smells belong to the Rajputs of Ajit. Gabriel and Kasvarina confront them about that fact, but they deny any involvement and don't give us any hint about their possible motive. We suspect that the Rajputs must have operated on the orders of Ajit, so we discuss on how to deal with this obvious violation of trust. We suspect that, coming from all that we know about the time when Kasvarina installed Ajit as the leader of Ushanti, that Patriarch may very well be an Obs officer and loyal to Obs-Kasvarina. Carlyle makes it very clear that he doesn't want to stay any second longer in a place that's obviously not safe for them. He fears there might be a nightly ambush and also that our whole mission might fail if we take too many risks here. Auryn is even more disgusted by Ajit and his character as he's someone who dishonors the privacy of his guests, and more importantly his matriarch. But unlike Gabriel, she doesn't want to leave. Instead she argues to dethrone the guy and rid him of his power so that Ushanti may become a safe place again without being in control of the Obs. She adds that several older Eladrin appear to be loyal to their original matriarch and would certainly support that change of direction. This wouldn't need a violent coup, she explains, as Ajit's power was given by Kasvarina and so it would be her privilege to strip it from him again. Carlyle isn't too happy with the prospect of a coup, no matter how peaceful as it will still cause trouble, disruption and draw attention. In addition, he points out that Kasvarina might not be comfortable with taking on the role of High Matriarch again, especially as she is still missing pivotal memories from her past life. “She doesn't have to stay here. All she has to do is to invoke her right as the High Matriarch and change the way Ushanti is run. Think of all the good she could do with one single act.”, Auryn says. “And I fear that you are projecting your own political ambitions on Kasvarina. This isn't your decision, it is hers. I know that you would gladly take this political responsibility, but Kasvarina might not want to be part of this conflict. She is still vulnerable.” “She is no child you need to protect... she was, is, a Matriarch of Elfaivar. No matriarch would sneak away like a criminal in the middle of the night. And you know the danger of having Obscurati be in charge of a well-connected, powerful Eladrin enclave. ” “And maybe she doesn't want to fulfill this role. Even if you would. Remember, we both agreed to not influence her in any direction.” “We both did...” Auryn agrees with a sigh. So we turn to Kasvarina and talk about all of her possible actions so she may choose which path to follow. [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)] (That is... some sort of recurring theme with both our characters. There are several points in the campaign where we got the strong impression that it wasn't our place to decide, but to have the person who is either in charge or the center of the story forge their own path. Which... of course put more pressure on the DM. Oh and yes, Auryn is totally projecting how she would handle things on Kasvarina. Even if removing Ajit was a legitimate option. Also Ajit...Cajit? I somehow imagined him to be a fat guy with cat ears)[/COLOR] Kasvarina decides that regaining her memories need to have priority as she doesn't feel comfortable deciding on anything without getting the full perspective. She isn't keen on sneaking away though, so she'd rather stay till morning to say goodbye properly. We offer her to take on Ajit should she feel the need to confront him. But for now she prefers to simply watch him and his actions. Carlyle sleeps with one eye open, and so does Asrabey. When the morning breaks, Kasvarina wants to leave, so we inform Ajit that we'll have to leave this very same day. He treats us with an opulent breakfast where many of the enclave's inhabitants are invited as well. Despite this obvious attempt on making us stay, we formally say goodbye and continue with our journey. While we're on our way back to Kellandia, we're suddenly being ambushed by a group of Eladrin warriors. On a closer look we are quite shocked to see that these guys are actually Rajputs from Ushanti. Fortunately they don't pose too much of a threat for the four of us and so we manage to bet them unconscious without getting more than scratches. We tie them all up and question them on their motives for attacking us. After all, from all we've seen, they just attempted to take their Matriarch's life. But the group decides to stay silent. While we're merely frustrated, Asrabey is not having it. He demands justice and agrees with Carlyle's assessment that these guys attempted to murder two noble Eladrin women, both the High Matriarch and her descendant. A crime that is being punished with death. When the Rajputs don't show any emotion or motion at all, Asrabey takes his sword, sentences the first one to death under the rule of the Enclaves of Elfaivar and decapitates him. None of the others intervene; Kasvarina because she is still too confused on what's going on, Auryn because she is heavily repulsed by Ajit and his goons and still adheres to her people's traditions and Gabriel because he knows that this isn't a Risuri's place to intervene in a foreign country's system of law and order. Asrabey continues to execute the Rajputs without remorse while the other three watch the cruel spectacle in silence. When he is about to put the last of them to the sword, the Rajputs pleads to explain himself and we finally find an excuse to stop Asrabey. The Rajput says that he was acting on Ajit's orders (as we suspected) and that both he and the Patriarch came to the conclusion that Kasvarina must be under some kind of spell. After all, she didn't display the secret signs she had shown them so long ago which would signal her safe and free return to Ushanti. And as she wasn't showing any signs of distress or giving them hints on what was going on, a charm spell would be the only logical explanation. “You fool.”, Kasvarina replies. “There is no spell on me, and you could have checked this quite easily. I don't want to drag my family into this old business. And who is Ajit to question my reasons for not giving stupid signs? Now go back to Ajit and tell him that I'll be watching him. And that I have changed and he'd better leave me and my family alone.” She then orders Asrabey to release the Rajput who runs off to Ushanti immediately. [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)](Again, leaving the choice for Kasvarina and dear, she has some growth here. While Asrabey demonstrates that he's made from a totally different kind of wood.)[/COLOR] We then return to Seobriga as we hope that Corta Nariz' preparations for the memory of Rilego have progressed since we've over a week ago left. And just as we thought, the daughter of Bruse Cavallo has already established a plan on how to safely trigger Kasvarina's memory. She shows us how she would have her clerks, specialists and mages prepare the whole area: They would evacuate the block and restrict the area of the memory site. Then the mages and we should add some illusions to make the dragonfire bomb defusing look real and explosive. We agree and proceed with her plan the next day. The mages establish the outer illusions to block any view on a maybe emerging dragon figure and Kasvarina dons the Arc of Reida. The scenery immediately shifts and suddenly all surrounding buildings are on fire. Next to Kasvarina, a group of Eladrin soldiers emerges out of thin air, including Latika and Sor Daeron. The very same moment, Auryn disappears and reappears in the character of Launga who is being carried by Rilego in his claws. The massive dragon lands on one of the buildings' roofs and pins Launga to the ground. Kasvarina rushes to the building and begs Rilego to spare her daughter and turn to her instead. But then she is suddenly stabbed in the back by Sor Daeron. “I know what you have done, [I]High Matriarch[/I]”, Latika proclaims coldly. “And you and all of your family will pay the price for this ultimate treason” With this signal, Rilego uses his fiery breath on Launga and Kasvarina cries out in terror. Auryn-Launga shrieks as well, but falls immediately silent the moment the fire touches her. The two women split, leaving Auryn unconscious next to Rilego's claw and Launga half-charred and still underneath it. Kasvarina's warrior and maternal reflexes set in after that brief moment of terror and she rushes into the building to get to Launga and Rilego. Sor Daeron orders his men to follow and kill her, but Kasvarina retaliates with a quick chain lightning, roasting them all and making part of the building collapse on Sor Daeron. She then hurls powerful spells at the dragon who lifts off. Rilego then picks up Latika who tries to take him as a ride out. But Kasvarina orders the dragon with a word of power to drop her and Latika falls to her death. Kasvarina then picks up her dead child, holds her close to her chest and utters cries of rage, despair and pain. Carlyle meanwhile moves closer to the building while making sure that he doesn't cause an accidental collapse. This way, he can see that one-armed Sor Daeron has actually survived the falling walls as he crawls out of the rubble and flees the scene. Auryn regains her consciousness only to see Kasvarina in her worst state possible. The memory event ends and Launga disappears from Kasvarina's arms. Still the tears are running down her face and the Matriarch is still very much overtaken by feelings of grief and despair as she now not only knows what truly happened to Launga, but also that she failed to prevent her daughter's death and was betrayed by people she trusted. Auryn wraps her arms around Kasvarina to comfort her while Gabriel checks that neither of the two has suffered any dangerous injury. “Thank the gods that Sor Daeron didn't know about Launga's daugher...” Auryn whispers. “Neither did I.”, Kasvarina adds, her voice still shaking. “In that moment, I truly lost all I cared for. Now I understand... why I hated Rilego with all of my heart.” “I... am so sorry.” says Asrabey who really didn't know jack about his wife's cruel past. Gabriel waits for Kasvarina to take a breath and get some distance to the memory before he tells her with a fair bit of reluctance what he, and only he, saw in the vision: That Sor Daeron managed to survive and flee. And as he left the remaining part of Kasvarina's family alone, he was either oblivious to their existence or just moved on to hide from what he had done there. Which is why there would be a tiny chance that he'd be still alive and a potential way to understand what it was that “Kasvarina had done” to make both an Eladrin General and a High Matriarch want to hurt Kasvarina that much before they would eradicate all traces of her existence. Of course Asrabey isn't having it as he would gladly end the traitor's life for the pain he had caused. Kasvarina is terrified by the thought at fist, but realizes that her hot wrath doesn't reappear when speaking or thinking about a possible present-day Sor. “What's done is done. And if this worm of a man is still alive and we can use him for information, then so be it. I may decide whether I need revenge after we got what we need.” she says. So we agree to first check whether Sor Daeron would still exist and where we could find him. The first one is be a bit obvious as our divination attempts are being blocked and do not simply fade without reaction. But it appears as if the man is warded by quite the powerful protection spells. After a few minutes, we realize that someone is trying to scry us back, to no success as well. Being the only one without a direct connection to either Kasvarina or Sor Daeron, Gabriel offers to contact the man in his position as agent of Risur to get a chance to talk to him. We agree with this plan as he wouldn't have any reason to fear an RHC agent. So Gabriel uses a sending spell where he introduces himself as a Knight of Risur and secret agent who is trying to unearth a conspiracy which is threatening the world. Which is why he would need to know what atrocities Kasvarina had committed in her past. Sor reluctantly agrees to meeting him and asks Carlyle to come to an eladrin community near Citada de Cavallo. We travel there immediately and Gabriel proceeds on his own from there. He meets the ancient Eladrin in a tavern where he appears to be a senile old man. But he quickly learns that this is only a partial truth as several of Sor's mannerisms are actually a guise. He sits down next to Sor, introduces himself and orders the local soup before he proceeds in a telepathic exchange. Carlyle tells Sor that he knows he escaped Kasvarina's wrath in Seobriga the day Rilego killed her daughter and as Kasvarina's past might be the key in unlocking the secret society threatening the current state of the world, he needs to know what Sor and Latika had learned about the Matriarch's crimes. Sor Daeron seems to feel remorse for what happened in Seobriga and explains that the man he is today would have never dragged an innocent girl into this mess as both he and Latika wanted to kill Kasvarina first and foremost. But their plan failed and so he had to hide from her wrath for centuries. For what she had done, he explains that there was this merchant who smelled like he had too many cigarettes who gave him documents that proved that Kasvarina was the one who had killed Srasama and ushered in the Fall and the Malice. In addition, he had given them hints on where to find Launga and one thought lead to the next. Unfortunately, Sor doesn't remember the details on the “proof” the merchant had given them and alas, all of this wasn't really worth it in the end. Just like Vekesh said, revenge only causes more and more pain and he is past living his whole life in fear of Kasvarina. But what he feels most sorry for is that they had abducted Launga. Carlyle clenches his teeth before he stands up. “You didn't 'abduct' Launga, Sor Daeron. You sacrificed an innocent woman to a dragon tyrant so that beast could maim and murder her. May this memory stay with you for the rest of your life.” [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)](...just Carlyle things)[/COLOR] Then he leaves the tavern and returns to the rest of us. He tells us all that he's learned and makes sure that Asrabey understands that Sor Daeron's current existence would be far more miserable than giving him the mercy of a quick death. He stresses out that Sor had lead a life full of fear and then asks Kasvarina whether she'd want to face the man one last time to maybe find closure. To our all surprise, she accepts the offer. It takes quite a while until she enters the tavern and even longer to leave it again. When Kasvarina returns, her eyes are filled with tears once again and she states that she didn't want to kill Sor Daeron, even if he'd understand it if she felt the need to end his life. But she wouldn't forgive him either as his crime cannot be forgiven by any means. All she could do was to shake off her old feelings of needing revenge. “You don't have to forgive him.”, Auryn says, “and he isn't important. All that matters is that you can find closure and move on so maybe the cycle of hatred can finally come to an end.” [/QUOTE]
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