Del History
AIB Team Building Day (September 2016 in our world)
In the house where Del finds her Aarakocra coat, she is possessed by a ghost because apparently she's really easy to speak through.Newcycle (October 2016 in our world)
Del is possessed by the remaining Trickster Goddess who says that her wife was kidnapped.Memory from the Pirate Session (November 2016 in our world)
- You remember yourself as a child, a concept that is alien for you because before this moment, your memory did not stretch this far back. In this vision of the past, you are on a ship, pommelled by angry waves in a violent storm. Oblivious to fears, you run to the bow of the ship to look at the storm but are pulled back by a woman with golden-blue eyes. She pulls you into an embrace along with a man who feels just as warm.
- Your memory shifts to one that is not your own. You are a man, draped in clothes that look millenia outdated. You are at the bow of a ship facing the opposite way of your first vision, desperately trying to steer the vessel out of a sudden storm.
- Your vision oscillates between yourself and this man until both ships collide against something invisible, causing the bows to shatter and both you and the man to be thrown off and be pulled under the water.
- You awake in a cavern under the water where seal-like people nurse you and a stranger back to health. You spend weeks or maybe months there as they heal you. The man is strange in the sense that you can see him but it does not feel that he is really there.
- Time passes and you feel stronger, but changed. The waves carry both you and the man to an unknown shore.
- Your memory fast forwards to one you are used to: waking up on a tropical island alone.
Family Tree (The Goblin Market)
This is a recap of what went on in the labyrinth when you climbed the family treeAt the centre of a bowl shaped canyon, there was a Flag stuck in the ground. There was a riddle on it that read: Scale my hollow with haste and wit. A riddle each floor, one they knit. Brave the branches you'll find me in. Bring the answer to me my kin.
There was a snowglobe on the ground beside it with a castle inside. Once it was picked up, it floated up to the sky. A giant tree erupted from the ground and the clouds wept a torrential thunderstorm that started to fill the canyon. You climbed up the hollow of the tree. On each floor there were wood statues and a riddle. These are the statues:
- Floor 1: Del
- Floor 2: Two high elves wearing simple clothes with endearing eyes.
- Floor 3: Four high elves, two male, two female, wearing the same embroidered robes, stern faces.
- Floor 4: Pretty much the same as the last one, but eight elves.
- Floor 5: 16 elves. Essentially the same get up but instead of looking stern, they’re proud.
- Floor 6: 32 elves, who are barely wearing more than rags.
When you got to the top of the tree, there was a door that led outside. Only Del was able to go through. The snowglobe with the castle inside was on the top floating in the branches amongst a thunderstorm. The globe yelled at Del: Have you brought me your answer? What are you Once the answer (VESSEL) was given, the storm stopped.
The globe spoke to Del in her mind: You, like everyone created, has an intended purpose. But it is up to you whether you would like to fulfill or carve your own. You become an admittedly yet beautiful person, and I do not wish your desires to be tarnished by the desires of those who sculpted you. If you do wish to find out who you were supposed to be, you will need to set sail far beyond Mendor
For Del, the environment below was no longer the tree. You were floating in midair looking down on an ocean. The waves seemed to roll as if you were flying over it at an incredible speed, then suddenly halted. You zoom through two blooming volcanoes and come to an island with a castle just like you saw in the globe.
The globe spoke: Whatever your choice may be, I love you my child. You felt warm like someone kissed you on the forehead, and then you returned to the world, holding the snowglobe in your hand.
Susan's Speech to Del when she died (The Goblin Market)
We didn’t ask for this. When we sacrificed ourselves to seal the demons, none of us knew we would become gods. Nobody taught us. There was nothing to follow, no one to help. We faked it a lot and we tried our best, but it’s hard. It’s really hard. We can’t save everyone Del. But, I wanted to save you. I wanted you to be able to live free of the pull towards destiny that we are forced to endure. I wanted you to be able to craft your future with no purpose and no loyalty except for that which you chose. And I’m sorry, because now the tides have become too dangerous, and I have to do the one thing I never wanted to: to ask you to take up the mantle you were created for: to banish chaos before it consumes everything in its wake.DnD Vessels Prologue
Somewhere impossibly far from here, you see an elven man dressed in blue and golden robes. He is escorted onto an outdoor stage in front of a large gathering of people. The man looks out at the crowd and scans their faces as if expecting to see someone, but after a moment, his face falls. He bites his lip and rubs his sleepless face in his hands. He turns around to the people who led him onto the stage. They direct him to that very familiar golden chair. An important looking woman steps forward and reads from a scroll in front of the silent crowd. When she has reached the end, she looks at the man’s entourage who stand behind his chair, and nods: the well known signal to press the button. The man looks up at the cloudless sky and takes one last breath of the delicious ocean air. He hears the button being pressed. He hears the blade fall. And then his head rolls.From the Garden of Prophecy and Memory (The Divination Islands)
Memory
You are standing in an extravagant foyer, breathing deeply, as you just put on the most impressive display of your life, but you have never been more angry. The Golem of green crystal who has been at your side since the beginning stands across from you with their arms folded. "What do you mean it's not enough?!" you yell at them. "The power won't develop to its full potential in you. You knew this could happen." "What's your alternative? Balli?! She doesn't have a thread of responsibility in her. How could she--" And it's just now as you are realizing what is going to happen that your sister steps into the room, the light from the chandelier above her illuminating her messy brown hair and gold-blue eyes with an angelic glow. She gives you an almost apologetic smile and looks down at her hand, which is resting on a curve of her belly. "The power must move on," the Golem says.Prophecy
On the eve the great hammer falls, the adversary will accept her invitation. She will return with iron, echoes, and stars. The chosen blood will blossom, but without our protectors, will boil, unable to diffuse, demolish, or devour. The seas will struggle, and be still.Exerpt on Ballistae Naido (The Die-Wizard Tournament)
From Sepharin's Encylopedia of Naval Disasters Most people join the Navy for reasons of duty: to make ends meet, or to protect their loved ones. Some join for revenge: haven had friends or family lost to sea monsters. Then there those fractious nuisances who join because they want to blow things up. Out of all the disasters I have had to deal with in my long career, there was no one who completely misunderstood the ideas of subtlety and restraint more than my first officer in 13978. We never knew for sure where she came from; she was placed here from above, and my pay grade was not high enough to waste time on this mystery. She said she had stone giant blood in her, and we were pretty easily convinced that was true do to her habit of growing to towering sizes to wreck havoc. In this chapter, I will outline what exactly led to the catastrophe that ended my career and the person who set it all into motion. Your target is Ballistae Naido.The Execution of Ballistae Naido and Orsik Hallows (The Die Wizard Tournament)
Documented by Investigative Journalist, Yurell Ley On September 28th, 14176 ACV, Ballistae Naido and her husband Orsik Hallows were put under trial. The official report of their offense was vague, simply, “crimes against the Archipelago”. Whatever they did was severe enough that they were sentenced to death. They lived out the rest of their lives on Corunveil, one of the two Islands of Abjuration, and home to the High Court of Vithala. On June 2nd, 14181, the day that Naido and Orsik were to be executed, a horde of Sea Monsters launched a sudden assault on Corunveil, and something went off during the battle that caused the entire island to explode. Among the hundreds of deaths, there were the two convicts, the entire High Court, and the Guardian of Abjuration. Though there was no confirmation possible, many people blame Ballistae and Orsik for this, as a last ditch attempt to escape their punishment, or bring down their prisoners with them. In response to the destruction of Corunveil, Arkandrum, now the sole remaining Island of Abjuration, put up a barrier around their land. Since then, no one has been able to enter the island or communicate with anyone inside, nor has any successful attempt been made from the inside out.Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
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