Role

Chapter 12

Chapter summary.
Added Sun Jan 28 06:36:29 2024 at level 36:

1: Ixen's mother, an Anathema black magician, attempts to reach the cult of
Zurcon beneath Grynmear in a last ditch attempt to save her skin. The blade
sect catch up to her on the beach, but she has already put the baby Ixen in
a boat and it floats off uncared for on the water.

2: A young Initiate out fishing comes across the boat with Ixen in it and
though initially terrified of the wicked beast, his soft heart and kind
nature lead him to take the giant to the prelate, who also being a good man
decides they will attempt to raise the young Ixen in the way of the order
of Calatius (and rid him of his wicked birthright).

3: Ixen is seen from the perspective of an acolyte sent to help him in the
gardens. Ixen is shown to be very unnerving and abnormal for a giant, and
seems to delight in gardening and particularly in hearing the 'confessions'
of others.

4: Ixen struggles with his natural predispositions towards violence, trying
to resolve the Order's teachings with what he sees as a world unworthy of
tolerating.

5: Like many before him, Ixen stumbles across the dire texts of Zurcon
hidden within the monestary while doing research, in a quest to find
meaning.

6: Ixen has a crisis of faith - Zurcon's malign promises of destroying
everything resonate with him, but they still feel incomplete to him,
because ultimately he wants a 'better world', or believes he does. His
sphere is the reason it felt wrong.

7: Whispers of a new goddess making her presence known to the west reach
Ixen, and the bits and pieces he overhears are as a puzzle solved - the
missing pieces of a belief system, and so his wicked heritage at last wins
the moral battle. He turns away from Zurcon, appreciating him for the
fragments of wisdom but ultimately believing him to lack vision or true
insight. He uses Zurcon's texts to form his first demonic pact for power,
beginning his road to apdom.

8: the price for his first dark pact is his conscience (Trallmonnan is one
of the demons which can be invoked for the plague spell, so he basically
overpaid bigtime in his novicehood for the deal). In order to fulfill this
pact, Ixen murders the now aging man who saved him from the lake as a baby
in the gardens he'd worked on for so long.

9: Ixen burns the gardens he toiled over for most of his young life before
departing. He vanishes for some decades doing dastardly things, before
reemerging when he is old enough to enter the guild system and naturally
joins the AP guild.