I Have A Family!

I have met the family of Sszaryn Vekthiss. The family is very devout to the Yuan-Ti and the Zshar'Akai. There is no room for me in that family. Within the first five minutes of meeting them after what may have been 20 years, the father immediately tried to shove me into "place" as a Bloodfang. I only found out about that name or that they existed simply five minutes before. I am not a simple soldier. I am Severus Snake. I am a cleric, a bard, a talker amongst the people. I can and have done so much more as Severus Snake than both Sszaryn Vekthiss or Sshaavar Zshar'Akai could have ever dreamed!
 
I remembered somethings about my family, little flashes of dreams from when I was Sszaryn. Vhessirra was a wonderful mother to me. Compassionate, nurturing, she taught me how to adapt and overcome. She may have seen that Sszaryn was not going to settle for simply being a Bloodfang. She knew I could do better from the memories I have seen and helped him to reach for those dreams, despite how much it must have hurt her to lose him. I know they were all rather kowtowed to Sshaarvar while I was in the home, I hope she let him have it when they were behind closed doors once again. I gave her a bottle from Fip's and my pub with our teleportation coordinates, but we hand that out to the whales we bring to the casino. I felt it was the right decision at the time. Fip is just going to have to forgive me for that one. I do hope that she comes one day. I would enjoy speaking to her without that guy's interference. Why she married such a blunt tool of a person, I will not understand. It may have been a marriage of power or convenience, or maybe she saw something in him that his pride gets in the way of.
 
My brother, whom I remember from the memories that have started to flood in, is named Sskarran. Apparently he is of the same temperament as Sshaavar. No wonder he only became a bloodfang warrior. No imagination and a bully growing up. His father has dictated his entire life, I am sure. It's probably why Sshaavar got so pissed that I wouldn't follow him as well. That guy has an ego the size of Aragoth! I haven't received any real pleasant memories of Sskarran.
 
Zzivani. Now that girl had imagination! The memories that I have received from my time with her have been fantastic! She takes after Vhessirra, from what I have seen. My memories of her show her to be mischievous and interesting. I pray she finds someone who will make her happy. Maybe she too will visit me someday. I would love to get to know her better.
 
Sshaavar reported that Sszaryn had murdered an elf woman in the Zshar'Akai marketplace which is why he ran. The same elven woman I saw in The Shadowed Loom that day we were all transported there. Whomever you were, I'm sorry that you were murdered by my hands, even if I don't truly remember it. You deserved better. I wonder if Sszaryn and Sshaavar had a fight earlier that day and Sszaryn felt the need to take his anger out on the first unlucky soul who crossed him? Whatever the reason, I am not that person any longer. I am sorry, elf woman. I pray that you might forgive me one day, and see that I am no longer that boy. I have changed for the better, thanks to Lysmera. Elaria Duskmantle destroyed Sszaryn and Lysmera replaced him with Severus Snake.
 
When I left the Vekthiss home, I was proud to know who I truly am. I was also kind of glad to tell Sshaavar that I had killed the Zshar'Akai's old god. Sshaavar feels it would have been better that I was forgotten? Well now there is no chance that he won't remember Severus Snake until the day he dies. My party and I killed something they used to worship. How could he ever forget something like that! I doubt he has ever done anything outside his pitiful little village. For someone claiming to have been enlightened, he is very small minded. He will just have to deal with the fact that I did something he obviously didn't have the balls to do himself. I am better than a Bloodfang. I am a Warrior-Poet.
 
As said Warrior-Poet, maybe I will do some pit fighting this week. I could take on challengers, but also play for their entertainment when I'm not in the ring? Anyway just a thought. I just have a lot of energy after this last mission and I need a healthy way to use it. Lysmera will be pleased simply because I can bring people together either way!
 
Anyway I have realized that my family is Fip, Scree, Erik, Mason, Ser-Wyn, and Glyn. They have been there for me and I am pleased to be their brother. Since I have found my birth parents and discovered what they were like, I don't know if I want to keep digging. Does Elaria Duskmantle still deserve to be destroyed? Absolutely. She is no god, she is just a monster in disguise, much like that false hydra. If I receive the chance, maybe I could remove her, but that is simply vengeance talking. Maybe I should continue a quest for Lysmera. She's been the only god to bring some form of joy into my life. Maybe I could win favor with her? I once heard a story about a mortal who's god fell in love with them and they bacame lovers! Hah! That would be a trip and a half!