text; un: stormborn

[thebrideoffire]

There is a great deal to discuss. Wrathion has provided much of the news that I have learned, but there are two further pieces of information that I feel is relevant. The last sacrifice to Sanwon was the child of Hyang-Won and Anui. She seems to have been from Waicai and while she moved past her beliefs, it never fully disappeared.

When the volcano started to heat again and it was time for someone to go, she gave her child. He was the last sacrifice. She waited until Hyang-Won was at hunt. When he returned and found his son gone, he was frantic and angry. He disappeared into the woods where a man that Hyang-Tai calls 'the Traveler' followed to calm him. It's not known what was spoken of, but apparently when Hyang-Won returned, he was changed, as were his beasts. They became as they are now. Not creatures of the woods.

Anui was gone and the villages were quiet. I think it may be possible that whatever curses this place is related to that and perhaps to the traveler. He is the reason for the House of Ravens, those that go in but never come out.

It might be possible to find a way to undo this curse, as we have had to undo the curses of ancestors here, but I am not certain how.

I do ask that someone accompany me to the House of Ravens, but only those that may wish to know more. I made a promise that I must fulfill and it may offer more answers.

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un : dappled peals of the parted seas (voice)

[scrapgege]

[Xie Lian is kind of glad this is only voice, and he sounds calm, but the mention of this Traveler, that he has heard called the 'man in white', makes him uneasy. A silhouette dressed in white, bringing both boon and chaos... There might be a slight tremor in his voice.]

The Traveler... could he have been the one to change him? Made him what he is now? We still haven't had any clues as to how these people got to be what they are...

[thebrideoffire]

That is what I believe. I was given no direct evidence, but the way of the story and the manner that things changed after the child was sacrificed, I believe he is behind it. It seems no coincidence that the traveler went to the woods to find Hyang-Won and then Hyang-Won emerged as he is now.

[scrapgege]

I don't remember Anurr mentioning anyone like that... but he hasn't really told us how he became what he is either, and he is a lot older. I think he's at least 200 years old.

[Which is... still significantly younger than Xie Lian, but the Beastmaster is a baby compared to that.]

Has the Huntress mentioned anything about how she became this way?

[thebrideoffire]

I have not spoken to the Huntress.

[And it is interesting to look back on that. Something about the Huntress had never sat well with her. Now she understands why.]

200? I thought he might be older.

[scrapgege]

Given the stories we were told, I don't think he's much older than that. An old woman mentioned her grandmother knew him when he was alive.

He's old, but not.... super old. I'm older.

[thebrideoffire]

That makes sense as the Seer spoke of events lived through rather than seen in visions.

It seemed as if she knew the Huntress well.