un: Black Prince; text

[blackscales]

I spoke with our old friend the Huntress earlier. She confirmed a few suspicions. Her and her husband the Beastmaster were granted their powers by the White Wanderer. From him, she says, he used no artefact. She took it willingly, she says, but he didn't explain the full consequence. She was offered a shield, a way to defend herself. He asked for nothing in return, only to spread his message. She couldn't say exactly what that meant, that he was here. That his creatures are. She believed his daughter was important in some way, to this.

She believes they have all been used. That it all began with Matthias, and must end with him. She wants him dead, I am certain.

Incidentally, it seems it isn't her choice to ride unclothed. She says clothes burn when they touch her. A somewhat crass touch, I think.

I will be around the auction if anyone desires to find me.

Comments

un: absterge

[downswing]

Facile, to ever fault another.

[blackscales]

She certainly shares blame for accepting without asking more questions.

[downswing]

Foolish or desperate?

[blackscales]

Desperation can make fools of people, you could argue both.

[downswing]

I find myself unmerciful.

un: nah | text.

[damnable]

( Well, this is hitting a little too close to home except at the same time, Red did not choose any of what happened with her and Hades. She was made by him, and she never had a choice in the matter. This is one of those tales-as-old-as-time: don't accept shit from some asshole promising the impossible. Most likely it's gonna end with you getting fucked over, and she clearly was. She's got no sympathy especially after what she's put their group through. )

Sounds like a pleasant conversation. It's a pretty common thing that offers get made without the full consequences being explained. That's why you don't take mysterious offers.

...I think Hermione and I found something of hers in the forest. One of those beasts led us to it.

[blackscales]

It is possible to do both good and ill, to be the victim and the perpetrator of a crime.

[blackscales]

[ A beast led them to it? Interesting. ]

Anything of note?

[damnable]

It was a ring with a compartment on it. Inside the compartment is some black hair? Guessing it's her husband or her son's. I never met either so I can't get much of a read on it.

On the lid of the ring, it says Kathul. I asked around. Some of the sailors are saying it's a location south of here.

[blackscales]

Interesting. I hadn't the impression they had much left their village before things turned... sour.

[damnable]

Did you ever meet the husband or the son? Maybe you could figure out whose hair it is by that. But maybe it is the son's if what you're saying is right, and they were fighting before they left the village. Doubt she'd want his hair then.

...didn't she like toss her son into a fucking volcano though?

[blackscales]

She gave him up to the House of Ravens, yes, which was connected to a volcano. The child appeared to have dark hair. It was... difficult to tell with the Beastmaster himself, given the state he was in, but it seemed as if dark hair ran in his family. It could have been either of them.

[damnable]

...so some hair and a potential location to visit. I know the Merchant usually decides where we go, but wonder if he'd swing us elsewhere if we had reason enough to go.

Not sure if this is reason enough.

[blackscales]

Hard to tell. It's a lead, of sorts, but it could simply be a place they went to visit once. It maybe there is nothing there to find, it may be there is plenty.

[damnable]

True. Feels like it has to be important if it's etched on to the ring like it is. But I'm also not interested in the beacon at all so... guess I've been focused more on what's happening in this world.

Figure most of this group want to try to get back, and who knows if there's a beacon that way.

[blackscales]

You prefer to stay?

[damnable]

Yeah.

( She doesn't want to know what happens when she goes back when the last thing she remembers is Hades pulling her back into the Underworld. )

What about you? You got someone or something waiting at home for you?

[blackscales]

The years did not improve matters for you, then?

[ She's at least... you know, still alive? Still: ]

I have people to return to.

[ Anduin will be waiting. He won't remember, but he still will be there. Wrathion isn't certain he can take him back Vigilance, but since they won't remember he won't miss the thing. ]

private.

[damnable]

They did get much better for the most part. I think this place just has some shitty timing or amazing timing. I also get we don't exactly belong here so whatever happens will happen. I'll go back if I have to.

( She'll go back and face Hades if she has to, but she's not excited to do so - she knows he's likely to destroy her for leaving. )

Then you've got to get back to your people. I wouldn't expect you to want to go to some place that has no beacon and just some supposed ties to the Huntress.

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[reparo]

That answers my question of whether or not you'd fall under her thrall, I guess.

[blackscales]

I couldn't say for certain if she was choosing not to try, of course, but I admit I felt no pull.

Private;

[blackscales]

You have a choice.

[ Even if the Merchant would rather bundle them all home by force. ]

Few of them are truly my people. At least one of them, however, is important to me.

Private;

[damnable]

We don't belong here.

I'm not gonna hop on the nearest beacon, but if we're somehow damaging this world by being here, it's not really right for me to stay either.

( And it's hard to say what their presence here in the long term might do. Red knows enough about worlds, about realms, about fate to understand that. )

Then that one is important to return to.

Who are they?

Private;

[blackscales]

[ Who is Anduin Wrynn to him?

Isn't that a complicated question. ]

The first person who ever called me a friend.

[downswing]

Sympathy... is a difficult prospect here.