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| A Vow |
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After many years of relative solitude, I have once again come to enjoy the company of others. The group of people whom I found in Curmeah, though they may not realize it, seem to have become a new family to me; a dysfunctional family, yes, but a family none-the-less. It is very refreshing to once again find myself not only with a purpose, but to be accomplishing that purpose with a people that seem to be as dedicated to it as I.
Today we leave the Inverted Tower in Atma. Primus has been his usual talkative self. Speaking with a veiled tongue, not because I believe him to be trying to speak in mystery, but because the way he speaks of everything is how he understands them. When a being knows as much as he, I can understand how it would be difficult to understand how little the rest of us do know. Luckily, being a construct, no matter how cognitive he may be, he does lack some of the failings of those of us who are born. The main one is he lacks the ability to be impatient. This is lucky for us, as we had many questions.
Once again, in the span of too few months, Primus has giving me direction once more. I’m still rather confused by the fact that we ended up here in Atma, as my power should have taken us to the Elven lands, though Primus assures me that it is where I really wanted to go. Strange.
So we travel to Lochlain in the morning. Primus will send us there. I would attempt to send us myself, but honestly, I do not believe that anyone will let me try. Not after what happened in the dream. Though I believe it to be a good thing that Arilyn became trapped by that demon, not because it was a pleasant experience, but because it was a necessary one.
Through all of my years, though my history sometimes feels as if it is a tale told by someone else, it is my past. My time before becoming Elan has sometimes been the only thing that has made me through. Remembering my brother’s kindness to me. Being able to identify with being a normal person.
Though I will say, it is quite strange thinking of myself as a human, being the unremarkable child. If only I had known then what I know now.
Either way, I am hopeful about our future. Though I still have my reservations about what our fate may be at the end of things. I know that whatever we do. However we sacrifice. It will be together.
It is because of that we will win. We will not succumb to this Aram, the one who destroyed my homeland. Corrupted the minds of my people.
One day I will pay this fallen angel a visit and I will teach him a lesson. I will teach him the meaning of suffering; then I will teach him the meaning of joy. For his joy will be knowing, in those last moments of his existence, that his death will bring about a better world.
Until that day, I will protect those here that I travel with. I will ensure that the crystals they carry do not fall into the hands of Aram’s hordes.
This I say. This I vow.
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| Associated Regions: Atma, Inverted Tower |
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| From the journal of Nyran Galanodel |
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Contributor: Drew Butler |
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