Role

Chapter 5

The Mists

She called him, "The Watcher in the Mists" though he did not fully understand
why. Time passed, events transpired and Sindrai knew the words to be
prophetic. His life was once innocent, that of the simple farmboy. Then he
grew into a powerful sorcerer, the Sunwarden, and all seemed clear. But when
the world faced destruction at the hands of the Scion he chose a path that
stole the luster of his Purity.

Oh, he was not dark or even gray. Just not the beacon he was intended to be.
It was then the Sun, his source of Purity, hid from him in the mist. It was
there to be sure, somewhere, glowing ambiguously and lighting his path - but
no more was it a beacon to navigate by.

He was deserted, he feels, by the one who was to understand him best,
Kycalbrum in Sindrai's hour of need. His most promising recruit, Danyll, had
taken his own life because he lost his swords. To find comfort he sets his
heart upon a woman whom will never take him, Salyeris the Commander of the
Battleragers. He is once again alone on his branch amidst a sea of Reavers.

There in the mournful mist he watches. Occasionally the impure crosses his
path and he strikes like a vicious predator. There in those moments of combat
all seems clear once again. But the clarity always fades like the departure
of a lover in the morning and he finds himself literally and figuratively
very alone.