Role

Chapter 3

Once the centaurs and Avarazza established communication, they learned
from each other. Avarazza learned how to become even more at home with
the centaur. And furthermore, she was able to explain where she came from
and how she had been left for dead. The centaur thought her tale was
equal parts perplexing and humorous.

They dark-elves were calling unholy magick and speaking curses to make
their enemies sick. But they did not understand the forces there were
trifling with. Sickness, illness, is not the end. Death, is not the end.
It is all merely a symptom. Sickness and illness, is necessary.
Pestilence and plague are the precursors for healtheir growth. They
showed her how much stronger she was now that the leeches had cured her.
They affectionately called her little leech.

They pointed out the difference between the natural cycle of sickness and
health compared to the pain that the unnatural rituals of the enclave was
causing the environment. This sickness, is not natural. And therefore, it
only leads to pain and suffering. They showed her the stone houses of
Arkham and Absalom, and how the vines and swamp wilted and curled away
from these obstructions. Another illness. But no new growth would come
from the stone foundations.

Someone. Something. Needed to make things right. Perhaps it was Avarazza.
She studied with the clergy of the centaur and discovered that she had a
talent for something similar to what her dark-elven half-kin enclave
meddled with. Decay and disease spread from her fingertips with ease.
But, under the centaur's direction, she saw how new growth would spring
from the decayed remains of her studies.

Perhaps Little Leech was the witch-doctor that Thera needed. Certainly,
this strange swamp-born half-drow had seen enough to know that she needed
to do something. Her studies with the Centaur had introduced her to
theology and the pantheon of Thera. Rarywey, was someone they spoke
fondly of. And as she watched the slight current of the swamp take away
the decayed debris and reveal fresh life, she decided to follow it,
certain she was going the right way.