Role

Chapter 5

It is difficult to understate how much has happened, and how important. Each
good be a chapter in a large book alone. Taking lives and life being taken. Entrance
to the chasm of the Scions. And, perhaps most important, a meeting with the Lord Morius'
chosen one - the one Czernish will replace in time, of course.

But let us be methodical. Death. Taking the life of an adventuring ranger was beyond
her expecations, even after killing her schoolmate. This was different, and better.
But it was not the challenge she'd hoped. That, however, has come since. She has fallen three
times and they appall her. One, the first, was more a test, which ended poorly but was
in the end, all in all, a choice. But the two to the antipaladin were simply luck. And
her existence is to rule out luck as much as possible. She earns and is entitled to success!
These have spurred her to spend time, and perhaps more of her body's vitality than she should,
going beyond learning the rudiments of the guild's magic, but the use, the tactics, the strategy.
Soon, she will put this to use and become a scourge, she is convinced. The prey will fall,
and any who survive will be her slaves when the portals finally open and the world is overrun.

While traveling and working in the dark, she made contact with and pledged herself to the
Scions, whom she found not only shared her visions, but had positive (perhaps not the right
word!) confirmation and communication with the other side. Not surprisingly, she did not merely
pass but surpassed the entry tests. And one day, her very shadow spoke with her, obviously
taken over and used as one would use a puppet. It was an exhilarating and impressive
display of power. As with all things, she bides her time and knows one day she will lead and rule
the chasm. For now, like her magic, she melds her visions with divinations and years of
historial work and research found inside the chasm. It is intellectually fascinating, but
nonetheless still pales in comparison to seeing the blood of her enemies come close - but not
touch - her shoes. Her manicure remains perfect, at all times.