[OOC] The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

[shylarah]

@vietmyke *pats* I getcha. <3

[Lovejoy]

@vietmyke Great post! I was really looking forward to seeing Galahad's response and it was worth the wait!

As for the mysterious red-eyed man, I think it might be interesting if Galahad has been dreaming/envisioning some manner of powerful foe for the past decade and the vision that the Aspect showed him during Culmination was a... erm... actual culmination/amalgamation of these decade-long dreams. I just really like the idea of Galahad preparing for a hypothetical foe across the sea in his mind that'll be incredibly powerful and that's why he has an obsession with becoming the strongest mage ever. Let me know what you think!

@OppositionJ Okay! I think after your reply we could probably have @vietmyke respond, followed by me placing you guys on the transport to Cero City after which we'll be done with the Lanostre portion of the prologue. :)

@shylarah @CollectorOfMyst Will have the post done late this morning or tomorrow. I assume you guys are fine with me advancing time to the following morning? Also, I will have that Alexandre post for you as well, shy.

[shylarah]

@Lovejoy I ish good, yus~

[CollectorOfMyst]

@Lovejoy@shylarah Yesh, agreegd

[Lovejoy]

@CollectorOfMyst @shylarah Ugh sorry guys. Had some unexpected company show up. Updates will be up tomorrow.

[The Angry Goat]

*pokes head in*

*sees that the prologue is still going on*

*goes back to not existing in your consciousnesses*

[Lovejoy]

Almost!

[Lovejoy]

Have had a few distractions but posts should be up tonight!

[shylarah]

@Lovejoy *waves pompoms for you*

[Lovejoy]

@shylarah @CollectorOfMyst

Sorry to kind of shoo you out of there so fast, but I'm trying to kind of move on and get to the Marian Gate as soon as we can. Of course, if there's anything either of you need to do back at Lyessa's hideout, let me know and I'll go back and edit.

shy, I'll have your PM tomorrow!

@OppositionJ

Not sure if you've been keeping up with the Omestris story, but there's something kinda relevant to your character's backstory in this post. :)

[shylarah]

@Lovejoy I've been expecting to get shooed on.

I thought that essa had more to tell them, but aaah!

Ann's lady leviatin! It's almost a shame that ziotea didn't leave them her actual name. I think Phaidros might have been recognizable. Certainly elpis is recognizable as lanostran, but not a significant name.

I'll leave them with her actual name before she leaves, I think.

[shylarah]

Although a thought -- one hundred years probably means that it was her great-grandmothr, and I thought it was closer to two hundred.

[Lovejoy]

@shylarah It has been 200 years since Omestris' fall, but Iddin Mar was never actually captured by the Varyans. The people in it apparently destroyed the capital themselves before the invasion could take place, and thus Rose's family managed to escape capture for quite a while. This is why she is so terrified of Aleksandre, since he hunted them down for an entire generation before finally finding them.

Oh and yeah, Essa was meant to tell you guys some more stuff, but I decided we've had enough lore dumps for now. Best to actually get the story moving at some point :p

EDIT: I think Ziotea's surnames are pretty Lanostran sounding, so yeah, they would recognize those names. Might be able to even track her down. :p

[shylarah]

@Lovejoy her mother was relatively known, though captured and probably figured d ead. Ooh and tracked down...that's be fun~

[CollectorOfMyst]

@Lovejoy Nah, it's good to throw us out of there - we've been there how long, now? Four, five months? Oren will probably have some things to say in farewell, but there's no reason for them to stay there anymore.

[shylarah]

Zt had questions she didn't get to ask ic, but I can write them up and have do you answer them elsewhere. But I love info. *wkggles*

By the way, a/c is broken and I'm staying at a friend's, so not exactly conducive to writin. We'll see how it gors.

[Scout]

Hey, I'm just popping in to say I'm still here! Been a crappy couple of weeks, so I wanted you to know my silence isn't absence!

[shylarah]

@Lovejoy right, trying to write.

Actually, it's not just Lady Adrestia Phaidros thta was known. Since the two Lanostrans that looked after Zt as a tiny kid were members of the Lady's Anger...Ziotea /herself/ was probably known about, though she was decent at hiding -- and it wasn't worth it to track down a child they thought killed or taken. So even "Elpis" might be enough to give her away, but she will leave her full name.

how to do this...

I know Ziotea would have asked more about what exactly happened to the nation of Omestris. She would ask how Essa left the Inquisition, though probably not how Antonin is involved. She'd probably ask why the ruins are worth keeping -- and maybe a little about what Omestris was like before it fell. No idea if Essa would have answered any of these questions.

[Opposition]

Alright. I apologize for my bout of absence. I'm back and I'll try to get a post up as soon as I can do so.

@OppositionJ

Not sure if you've been keeping up with the Omestris story, but there's something kinda relevant to your character's backstory in this post. :)

@Lovejoy

I'll make sure to catch up and read through. Thanks for letting me know.

[Lovejoy]

@shylarah Cool! We'll see what happens with the Lady's Anger and Ziotea. They'll definitely be an important-ish part of the story so it'll be interesting to see how it all comes together.

Essa wouldn't answer anything concerning Omestris or how it was like before its fall, since such knowledge is sacred and has been kept secret for generations by a minuscule number of Omestrian elders. Essa definitely wouldn't be comfortable with letting Ziotea or Oren in on any of this.

When it comes to why the ruins are worth keeping, she'd reply by saying that the ruins in fact, aren't worth keeping. She chooses to live there because she can't stand Magnagrad, and the ruins do hold a certain sense of nostalgia for her. However, Essa also says that this place was never a paradise, and had its own problems, but she chooses to remember it as her home. She wouldn't go any deeper than that.

As for the questions about her career as an inquisitor, Essa laughs, and tells Ziotea that she served for a very long time, but isn't remembered by most of the empire for certain reasons. She then tells her that if she wishes to know more, she should read the records on Warband Ifrit in the archives. Just don't believe everything you read, she'd add.

@OppositionJ Glad to have you back! Love your new avatar btw.