Role

Chapter 4

Drissa is a warrior from the very distant future, in which renegade elven
"Soldiers of the Light" carry out a desperate rebellion against the evil
Empire. Thera has long since been destroyed, but the histories remember it as
the birth of what is now an inter-galactic civilization. Some amongst the
Soldiers believe that by traveling back in time to Thera and bolstering their
ancient kin in the battle against Darkness, they can change the course of
events for the better and prevent the Empire from gaining hegemony over the
universe.

Drissa volunteered to be the first through the time portal. Despite warnings
from the technicians who built it that nothing other than flesh and bone
could go through safely, military leaders saw fit to send her through with a
cloak and suit of armor made of the finest astrosynthetic material available.
They gave her a compubook, too, containing all of the shared knowledge of
their time. With these tools, they figured, she would have an unassailable
edge against anyone she encountered in the past.

In the end, something backfired. Drissa made it to the past, but her memory
was wiped clean. Even speech had to be relearned. What's more, Thera's
gravitational pull was much stronger than expected - having spent most of her
time in low-G environments, her muscles simply didn't have the strength to
function until Darsylon's healers fixed her up.

Her cloak and suit of armor ended up being remarkable only for the strange
material they were made out of, and are probably still being studied by
scholars in Darsylon to this day. Her compubook survived the trip, but
doesn't function on Thera - it's stuck on the first page, and the search
function is broken even if Drissa somehow remembers what it is.