Role

Chapter 2

What do you want? The basic question of all, yet perhaps one seldom
considered in depth. Recently, Shazmin has begun to consider her own
goals more carefully.

A basic need for revenge burns hard in her. She was hunted down by
a large force of Tribunals and mocked when she fell. She has committed
herself to see the Spire burn in return, preferably with the gnome
Tambar feeding the flames. But while the cup of revenge is sweet
and heady, it can only be drunk once. What else does she want?

Her request for a chance to study some of the rituals of the Scions of
Eternal Night has only been met with silence. While frustrating, she is
hardly surprised. If she had the power to breach the planes, she
certainly would not share the secret of how to do so. Her desire
to learn more about the shadow realm - aside from a basic
intellectual curiosity - purely rested on what she believed it would
give her in this realm. Shazmin considers opening a large portal to the
shadow realm or Abyss a notion exceeding pure idiocy. The basic version
of the Prophesy of the Eternal Night, that the portal will be opened and
the strong prey on the weak, is merely propaganda to lure the weak-minded
to do the work of the Shades. After all, it is already the state of
affairs. The strong have always preyed on the weak. But with demons and shades
joining the game of strength, one's odds of survival seem less than fair.
The key to power is the possibility of opening the portal. Not the doing
itself. However, such a game seems beyond her and she has dismissed that
avenue. But if such an avenue is closed, what others lead to power? Or
rather more importantly, what do you want the power for?

Shazmin would answer: 'To ensure that actions of fools have minimal
influence on myself and my doings.' But while true enough, it has begun
to ring less satisfactorily.