Yeah. It's a story you tell children, right? The one about the... the three champions. [hmm. they seem troubled somehow. also it should have been stories about her, not him. my b.]
You don't know that one? It's the one where... the day after the Raven Queen ascended, her three champions were given a task to deal with the body of a hero who had fallen in the war. His body couldn't...stay where it was. I don't remember why, I don't think the story tells you. [they explain this, in a thoughtful tone as though trying to piece together memories, but also in a tone that suggests they're waiting for vax to agree that he's heard this story before.] They had names, but I'm not - I'm not remembering what those were.
Uh. Anyway. They argued about what to do with the hero's body to show him honor and put him to rest. One of them wanted to cremate him so his ashes would remain, one wanted to give him to the air and the beasts of the land so they would always carry his memory, and one wanted to bury him in the ground so what grew from the land would be a monument to his glory. So they argued about this for many days and they prayed and asked the Raven Queen for guidance, but when they finally heard from her, she couldn't help them. She'd already taken the part of the hero that was hers. So she freed them of their vow to her and told them to find... [they trail off again.] Someone else. They journeyed deep into the woods and waited for their visions and eventually she came to them and spoke to them. And there they were set on three different paths, each carrying a part of the body.
The first one, the hero named Dust, was told to take the hero's body and walk the planes until he found a black onyx pool of fire and magma. There, he would give the body to the magma and the ashes would be mixed into brick and ink and steel and anything made there, because on that site a kiln would be forged. A gift from her to the Allhammer, to remind him that nature is the origin of material. The second one, the hero named Stone, was told to find an oasis and a red and gold veined cave where beasts would gather, and they would feed the limbs of the hero to these beasts. In that oasis a Menagerie would grow, populated by all of the creatures of the land as a gift from her to the Changebringer, to remind her that nature is infinite. And the third took the head of the hero, and she journeyed until she found a... [they trail off for a moment.] a spring, surrounded by...there was crystal...
Sorry. I'm forgetting the rest of it. You haven't heard this one before?
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You don't know that one? It's the one where... the day after the Raven Queen ascended, her three champions were given a task to deal with the body of a hero who had fallen in the war. His body couldn't...stay where it was. I don't remember why, I don't think the story tells you. [they explain this, in a thoughtful tone as though trying to piece together memories, but also in a tone that suggests they're waiting for vax to agree that he's heard this story before.] They had names, but I'm not - I'm not remembering what those were.
Uh. Anyway. They argued about what to do with the hero's body to show him honor and put him to rest. One of them wanted to cremate him so his ashes would remain, one wanted to give him to the air and the beasts of the land so they would always carry his memory, and one wanted to bury him in the ground so what grew from the land would be a monument to his glory. So they argued about this for many days and they prayed and asked the Raven Queen for guidance, but when they finally heard from her, she couldn't help them. She'd already taken the part of the hero that was hers. So she freed them of their vow to her and told them to find... [they trail off again.] Someone else. They journeyed deep into the woods and waited for their visions and eventually she came to them and spoke to them. And there they were set on three different paths, each carrying a part of the body.
The first one, the hero named Dust, was told to take the hero's body and walk the planes until he found a black onyx pool of fire and magma. There, he would give the body to the magma and the ashes would be mixed into brick and ink and steel and anything made there, because on that site a kiln would be forged. A gift from her to the Allhammer, to remind him that nature is the origin of material. The second one, the hero named Stone, was told to find an oasis and a red and gold veined cave where beasts would gather, and they would feed the limbs of the hero to these beasts. In that oasis a Menagerie would grow, populated by all of the creatures of the land as a gift from her to the Changebringer, to remind her that nature is infinite. And the third took the head of the hero, and she journeyed until she found a... [they trail off for a moment.] a spring, surrounded by...there was crystal...
Sorry. I'm forgetting the rest of it. You haven't heard this one before?