Role

Chapter 24

Viera has accomplished more goals. She is the Chancellor of Eternal Night
now. She is now marked as Lord Morius's Supplicant of Vanity. She has
finally met her patron Lord Morius. She was as impressed as she had expected
to be. Lord Morius exuded the personality of the patron God of Sins. He
took the form of a massive human man. He had a strangely warm, fatherly
aspect to him, yet his words and speech trembled with intense authority.
He was every bit the Father that Viera's own father could never become, not
even when Viera was a little girl.

Viera also offered her mace to Lord Morius, and indeed gave it to him. Lord
Morius was loudly pleased at that, but he returned the offering. Satisfied
at this show of devotion, Morius told Viera, gather more souls, use her
given toy, knowing it had been touched by his hand. This Viera will do, and
the souls in her weapon now hold special meaning to her, having been
momentarily held and measured by her Lord.

Of her previous set of goals, only two now remain. First, to gain the
Arcing Touch of Akkabal. And second, to persist in her life even after
losing her powerful weapon. Viera thinks this loss will happen inevitably,
since she has seen enough of battle to know that even the mighty can die.

She now has new goals. First is one given by Morius to progress towards
embodying the vice of Vanity. She must find worthy people to write high
praise of Viera to Morius. Emphasis on worthy. Second, she will seek out
apprentices. Viera Brightspell is a famous archmage of the anti-paladin
guild, in her own right. And what mighty archmage does not have students
who look up to her and do her bidding? Some of these apprentices may end
up becoming Scions, but Viera plans to accept more than just potential
Scions as apprentices. Third, she will grow the Chasm to greater heights.
Her goal is to have at least two others she deems worthy within the Chasm
with her.