Post by Orianna Èirigh on Oct 9, 2024 14:05:07 GMT
Written after the events of ‘Emergency Situation’ & ‘A Quiet Aside’
OBSERVATIONS & EXCERPTS from the JOURNAL of SECOND ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST ORIANNA ÈIRIGH of ASHKHA
We are on such a precarious ledge and I don’t know if there’s anything that can be done to stop us all from tumbling forward into the Abyss.
As satisfying as it was seeing Arcravine’s fear of nearly being on the wrong side of the Infinite, we are still on the back hoof.
Magdara, Phystal, Abrax, and Glastor have become more powerful than their brethren, thanks to a spell they stole from the Court of Sorcery.
They have made a supervolcano in the Planes of Oblivion using Vulcanax’s Piece of the Nine — which we have retrieved again, but at such a dire cost. The only reason Magdara would summon a supervolcano is because the four locks are located in the Paraelemental Planes. Sure, the Locks would survive. But what of Thalistrazza’s children, the Guardians?
As if that future pain was not enough, those heartless Primordial Incarnates had brought back an imitation — possibly even the real person herself — of Honey, Matches’s imi-ib. But I couldn’t help her. I couldn’t help him. I couldn’t even help Vulcanax when he came home, missing an arm and a chunk of his torso!
How?
How am I meant to guard those within my home when those who are unquestionably stronger than me get irrevocably hurt that I have to call upon Stellarum to give up her own power to heal them?
How can I protect Matches from the pain of losing Honey again when he hasn’t fully recovered from losing her the first time?
How can I protect Calla when all contingencies we could plan for have already been Seen by the patron who would use her to hurt us, who would end up hurting her?
I may be blessed with starlight but authority? I have none. I am not
[This journal entry ends here. There is no indication that Second Assistant Archivist Èirigh ever went back to finish this entry.]
