What does all this really mean? Darin is, apparently, a reincarnation of a god of destruction...and now John is a god of death? How many of these sorts is this place collecting?
Necrolord Prime. Egads, what a dreadful and ugly-sounding title; it makes her want to shudder, but she wills herself to remain still and sturdy, if only for Palamedes' sake.
"He's expressed interest in helping understand our connections to the dead here," she says. "I imagine that would be true regardless of intent...but it'd be foolish to seed discord among us all, yes? What advantages would a place like this have to someone of that capacity, especially when he himself is beholden to everything we suffer?"
From where she stands, the real division is just the knowledge itself: Palamedes being on edge (and by proxy, herself on edge) is already a wall being raised regardless of what John wishes.
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Necrolord Prime. Egads, what a dreadful and ugly-sounding title; it makes her want to shudder, but she wills herself to remain still and sturdy, if only for Palamedes' sake.
"He's expressed interest in helping understand our connections to the dead here," she says. "I imagine that would be true regardless of intent...but it'd be foolish to seed discord among us all, yes? What advantages would a place like this have to someone of that capacity, especially when he himself is beholden to everything we suffer?"
From where she stands, the real division is just the knowledge itself: Palamedes being on edge (and by proxy, herself on edge) is already a wall being raised regardless of what John wishes.