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 Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:57 pm
Though understanding what was said to him he was slow in taking the thread. It was a pivital moment as it was proved when the thread sudden snaked its way up Risen's legs and his body started to grow aging. As his body grew so did his mind and that proved the most interesting part of all. In the blink of an eye Risen was submirged in the ways of his kind that come with age and time. He knew of bonding and the history of it. He knew of the Fallen and Ascended. He became dizzy for it all whirled through his mind so fast and his body was changing fast too. He closed his eyes trying to help still the dizziness for but a moment.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:50 pm
Sain walked over while Risen was adjusting to the dizzyness and the new body and waited for a moment, time enough for the dragon to clear his head.
"It must be confusing right now," Sain mused, "but you'll adjust. It'll only get worse from here out, anyway. You'll have to learn to use an adult dragon body on your own - you still cannot fly but you're a lot stronger now. I have no advice to give you as I'm not a dragon."
He chuckled and settled himself crosslegged in midair, the threads on his arms draping to the ground.
"I was one of the few humans who walked the Blessed Path from long long ago, when the humans could still walk it. They've forgotten how and while some can still touch it, they do not know where it is their power comes from and could never walk upon it like the dragons do and like I do. You mustn't ever tell the secrets of the Blessed Path to someone who should not know them. Remember this - it will be important for your Trial."
"There is only one last step before you have completed the first rites of the Blessed Path. Oaths. Bind your flesh to the path, promise your life to it, and seal it with blood."
Sain held up his arms so that Risen could see the scars that criss-crossed them, deliberately inflicted in careful patterns so that the remaining marks formed patterns that a casual look would fail to notice.
"Use your claws," he said, "and if your oath to serve the Blessed Path isn't true those wounds will never heal and you'll bleed to death here and never be seen again by the living."
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Kiddo Seanchain Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:35 pm
An oath of blood to the seeking of knowledge. The idea and actual meaning of it hit Risen like a boulder. He thought about what that might mean. Could he back out even? No...he had already given his name and there was no way for him to get it back unless through the path. Not only that but deep in his heart he knew that this was the path he wanted to follow. The desire for knowledge and understanding of things was almost an obcession for him. It drove his family crazy for all the questions he asked them.
Risen sat back on his hind legs and rose his forelegs out before him. The wounds he had gotten from the rocks had healed over leaving scars on his adult body. He moved his eyes from his body to the arms of Sain so that he could understand what exactly he was to do. Then taking the new razor like claws that came with his new older form, he closed his eyes before making the first mark on his left forearm.
He cringed at first from the pain but once the first mark was done the rest became easier. Even as he cut himself he found that he was whispering the oath that bond him to the path and to the pursuit of any knowledge, secret or not so.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:47 pm
As the blood from Risen's arms fell and pooled along the ground it faded in color from red to gold and then to glistening light, strands of golden thread that floated just inches above the ground and soaked up all the blood the fell to create more of itself. Then, as the last cut was made and the last of Risen's oath was said the threads slipped up his body, wrapping around his legs and neck. When the last thread was in place, sealed tight and glowing in this dark place, the wounds closed up, turning from clotted crimson to the fresh pink of new scar tissue in a matter of seconds. The pain lingered as a reminder to what had just been done.
"Welcome, brother," Sain whispered, "You're one of us now. Should you ever betray this path those cuts will open again and those threads will choke the life from you."
He closed his eyes, brief pain flashing across his face.
"It has been done before. Only twice, but it has happened."
Then the moment was gone and Sain was unreadable again, watching the dragon with a mixture of amusement and contemplation.
"Now. It's time for you to prove your worth to the Blessed Path before it grants you full access to its desires and powers. The entire world is rocking in agony of events that are unfolding between dragons and humans - events of which everyone is currently unaware. It's just a few pebbles that will start this avalanche. Do you know to what I am referring to?"
"Oh..." he said with a faint smile and lift of the eyebrows, "Don't forget to look at your new wings either..."
ooc: Heritage is the event he's talking about.
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Kiddo Seanchain Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:53 pm
Risen had already started to look at his new wings but only for a moment because he was being talked to and it was of importance. "The coming war bwtween the Fallen and humans. I know only some though. The pivital place shall be in the Borderlands though. If the bloodshed is to prevented it is there that the key players must go." As he finished speaking he moved one of his wings into view again almost as if to see if they were still there.
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:27 pm
"Very good..," Sain murmered, "You're learning quickly. Now, I am sorry to tell you that you won't be able to use your wings right away."
He nodded towards the feathery tendrils of light that seemed to lack substance but just felt like they could carry Risen as high as any wings could.
"The Borderlands is where you will need to be as well, for while you are not a key player in this there is still something you need to do. The Blessed Path still works among the humans even if they do not realize that this is the source of their power. There is one such human that needs your protection right now - find her and stay with her."
Sain gestured with one arm, his finger trailing through the air, and a split like a tear in cloth appeared from it, widening out to form a hole in space, from which a path emerged. Stones made of pale light stretched out from the hole, a void on all sides of it.
"This is the Blessed Path. It'll take you to where you need to be. And when you arrive there you'll be in the form you need to be in as well. Dragons will stand out too much and those that pose a danger are well-accustomed to fighting dragons. You're going to have to get close as a human and when you need your dragon form, it will be returned to you. Good luck. This is your task and so you will not have help from me or anyone else that has walked the Blessed Path."
((the path will take you to the Borderlands, fairly close to where Avalene is. Risen will also be turned human at this point and you'll want to post this bit of your Trial on the Heritage thread))
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Kiddo Seanchain Vice Captain
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