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Entry tags:
- altered carbon: takeshi kovacs,
- cotar: rhysand,
- fear street: ziggy berman,
- grishaverse: alina starkov,
- grishaverse: the darkling,
- mass effect: kaidan alenko,
- mcu: bucky barnes,
- mcu: sam wilson,
- naruto: itachi uchiha,
- old kingdom: sabriel,
- persona 3 fes: shinjiro aragaki,
- star trek aos: james t. kirk,
- star trek aos: leonard mccoy,
- star wars: finn,
- stranger things: eleven,
- transformers: drift
text / un: starkov
the good news first: rhys and i found the princess of kilnan in the castle and woke her. she's with us right now. the castle was designed to protect her against her mother's soldiers trying to force her back home, which is why it's been so tricky. it's meant to alert remi — her uncle, and the wizard we came looking for — to any unwanted guests, which would be us.
the reason he hasn't come to greet us is that he's asleep. aureliah — the princess — should be able to talk her uncle down before he throws us all out into the mud. he's trapped behind an entrance sam's group found, but aureliah should be able to unseal its magic.
i think more of us should be there when it's opened, just in case something goes wrong with the orb.
the bad news: the orb's name is phyllie. remi made a deal with her and fed his own arcane energy to her in exchange for curing a curse that was placed on aureliah and her mother, but something went wrong during remi's bargain and that energy was transferred from the orb to aureliah instead. that's the reason she has her uncle's magic, and why her mother is so eager to use her daughter as a weapon against kilnan's neighboring countries.
the queen thinks kilnan will be better protected if she can force her daughter to learn war magic. it sounds like remi has been searching through dimensions to find the "right world" (for him and aureliah to hide? we don't know what he meant) but the orb has been draining him of his energy.
from what aureliah said, he feeds "phyllie" monthly. the princess and i think that's the price he's chosen to pay for keeping the curse at bay.
the worst news: i don't know what will happen if we break the bargain remi has made, but i'm sure it can't possibly be anything good. aureliah's life force was given to her by the orb, and the wizard who cast the curse in the first place was killed in the war. so that's a dead end, but maybe someone has a better solution we can offer remi once he's awake.
[ as per this npc thread! feel free to threadjack and hop around threads here to your hearts' content. ♥ ]
the reason he hasn't come to greet us is that he's asleep. aureliah — the princess — should be able to talk her uncle down before he throws us all out into the mud. he's trapped behind an entrance sam's group found, but aureliah should be able to unseal its magic.
i think more of us should be there when it's opened, just in case something goes wrong with the orb.
the bad news: the orb's name is phyllie. remi made a deal with her and fed his own arcane energy to her in exchange for curing a curse that was placed on aureliah and her mother, but something went wrong during remi's bargain and that energy was transferred from the orb to aureliah instead. that's the reason she has her uncle's magic, and why her mother is so eager to use her daughter as a weapon against kilnan's neighboring countries.
the queen thinks kilnan will be better protected if she can force her daughter to learn war magic. it sounds like remi has been searching through dimensions to find the "right world" (for him and aureliah to hide? we don't know what he meant) but the orb has been draining him of his energy.
from what aureliah said, he feeds "phyllie" monthly. the princess and i think that's the price he's chosen to pay for keeping the curse at bay.
the worst news: i don't know what will happen if we break the bargain remi has made, but i'm sure it can't possibly be anything good. aureliah's life force was given to her by the orb, and the wizard who cast the curse in the first place was killed in the war. so that's a dead end, but maybe someone has a better solution we can offer remi once he's awake.
[ as per this npc thread! feel free to threadjack and hop around threads here to your hearts' content. ♥ ]
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[ it's a similar idea to what alina had posed to the princess, only — alina isn't so sure she can trust most people as far as she can throw them. certainly not where surrendering power is involved, either. ]
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I came from a place where people weren't willing to give up anything at all, to help people who needed it.
Why not change that here?
If I can stop my town's curse, maybe I can at least help stop this one.
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[ it feels selfish, to be remotely hopeful at that information, but — at least one of them has experience with curses, then, even if the curse in question is unbroken. ]
if we can get enough people to help, it's not a bad idea. even if it doesn't work, maybe it'll keep it fed long enough to stop it from draining the country.
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It brings bad luck and death and all those things people try to avoid.
I'm here so I can go back and undo it, before it kills people.
I think the most important thing is waking that guy up, but
if that helps us get to him, that could be useful, couldn't it?
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then again, i thought a lot of things were legends. it turns out most of them were true.
it could be. are you sure you're okay sacrificing something like that?
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If there's one thing I do know, though, it's that a lot of people who don't deserve to be cursed are.
If I can help someone else not suffer from that kind of thing... I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try.
So yeah, I guess I would sacrifice this orb's power for that.