Role

Chapter 8

Acceptance is a weird thing. People crave it, but simultaneously question
it if/when it arrives. For Wrukesht, the moment she entered the Village
was almost surreal. It was not a lifelong goal, she only learned of her
true history a few years earlier. Nonetheless, once she did learn, she was
immediately somewhat estranged from Jaragh, her father in all but name.
Perhaps estranged is too strong a word. But there was a noticeable
change in their relationship. She was not friends with other children, now being
an adult. She had no other friends. And so the Old Man was her only bulwark
against loneliness. As evident from her daily demeanor, she is not a particularly
happy or joyous person - except with Jaragh. It's like a switch is flipped and
she is a happy young girl with him. So when she learned the truth and the space
between them appeared, it was devastating.

So when Xzelyx - a dark elf no less! - took barely a moment to usher her into
the Village to make her own hut, essentially giving her an instant family, it struck
her. Hard. All of a sudden doubts she never had before swam in her head: did she deserve
it? Did she earn it? Was it the right thing to do? How will she live with all these
strangers?? It was both exhilerating - she met the famed Destructor! - and petrifying,
all at once. But very quickly she calmed, reminding herself of what she had
already accomplished, and the seriousness of her task. To kill, and, to heal.

As planned, she chose the path of Defender. It was close, she was tempted
by the Berserker path, as inside she boils with rage at what happened to her and
by extension what she now knows as the evil of magic. All magic. But in the end
she agrees with what she believed Einoh stands for, which is killing is justified the
most because it aids in the next step: the healing. She wants to embody both sides of
war, to be a mageslayer and simultaneously to be a lifesaver. Only this way can
the conduct be righteous, to her mind. And so she has ended one part and now
begun upon the rest of her life.