The Burning Plague (On ward)
From Toosigma
After an hour of meditation Hazera gathers everyone together for dinner on the air ship. She casts Owls wisdom, and Foxes cunning on herself and says, “Before we begin please alow me to say a few words… Both to the Gods, and to you my friends.” She drops to one Knee by the table and bows her head in prayer.
Praying aloud she says: “I pity myself for what I have been through and what I see in the road ahead of me. But I must accept that this is my destiny. I vow to say, Goodbye to selfish pride, and Fair well childish arrogance and rage! As of now my desires now are not my own… But are now driven to restore peace and joy to this world… there by giving my own heart a reprieve. By the Silver Flame on this pledge do I solemnly swear! To think I wallowed in my own miseries while my poor sister, My only surviving family went without my care and affection… Who since has taken my place as the vessel of Astarial!
Hazera’s gaze drifts far away as she quietly continues, “Poor child, I know her turmoil well…but what a strange and auspicious fate? What sort of man was our father to seed such… prodigious daughters? May the Flame protect her when my bow cannot.”
Rising: Hazera addresses everyone with fierce passion. “I must rescue my sister… this much is clear. Yet I am now a Harbinger of the Silver Flame and my loyalty to the sanctity of the church is self evident. I do not know where to find my dear Trina, but I do know that Dominic and his Uncle are both servants of the same evil that took her… proven by my lover’s cursed gift. Beyond my own sorrowful reasons to seek them out, they are the only link to my sister I can think of.”
Friends, we have so many tasks of great import in this world that crumbles around us. I can’t help but think that there is war coming…war a hundred times more destructive and consuming then what we have already seen. And though it saddens my heart I doubt that we will be able to simply walk through the Church of the Silver Flame’s Doors at Flame keep to confront the villains.
We should muster allies. Maliden can you clan provide aid? The Dwarven kingdom should be informed of this unrest at the very least. And Marius what of your Family, You mentioned a holy man in Sharn?
If there is any doubt in your hearts of a need to restore the Silver Flame… Ask yourselves this: What will become of humanity, goodness, and our homelands when the army of the Crimson Shield reaches the gates of Flame keep, finding the cities greatest protection, the Church of the Silver Flame has already rotted from the inside out?
Surly my sister, compelled by Astarial will be there to feast on the rapine, death, and murder that will result. I do not wish to allow Astarial to burden my sister’s heart with memories of the cruelty she will inflict on that day. (Looking deep into Ayana’s eyes)
Sitting down: “What say you all?”
