Recent content by Raëlta Ylnâthel

Raëlta watched on, at first with mirth and then concern as his hand rose up towards the floating Shoraes above him. This was precisely what she had explicitly warned not to do! “Atandil!” She called out. With former concerns foregone, Raëlta sought to save him from his fate, but she'd not the...

Raëlta observed as Atandil’s vision continued to take form, the scene around him shifting. The priestess remained silent, with her attention on the changing dreamscape as the collection of lights and glowing tethers joining them moved around. He seemed unsure what to make of it, and Raëlta left...

Raëlta’s mind peered into the dream along with the rest, observing all. The dream was Atandil’s to have–a perception of his surroundings shaped by his subconscious in ways unknown. It could be seen that Atandil’s perception of himself had taken a substantial change, too. His limbs were no longer...

"What is this? What are you showing me!?" “The vision is not ours.” Spoke the eldest of the seers, in a gravelly voice. “All that you’ve thus far seen is what you show to yourself.” Raëlta added, in explanation. The induced trance was no hallucination. The collective had not placed any idea or...

Raëlta could sense Atandil's apprehension. It was expected, common to most all who had embarked upon the gruelling ritual. Hardship was certain, but the reward awaiting him would be more than worth the pain ahead. He surely knew this well, for he'd not be here otherwise. Raëlta looked to Nolmo...

“Take what time you need, and rise when you are ready.” Raëlta returned a solemn nod, and spoke simply in response. She then turned and made her way back, leaving Atandil to himself for the moment he needed. Raëlta remained nearby but out of sight as she awaited the signal to reapproach. The...

By now, Raëlta had overseen many initiations. An outsider might find it a bit odd that one of temperament as warm as hers would officiate such a gruelling ritual, but the agony was considered another form of care. To spare the suffering would leave the new soul unprepared for the pain that their...

"The Conclave will do all it can, Raëlta, but ultimately the collective is going to be looking to its faith - even questioning it," Spoke Ánië. “A task unlike any other...” Raëlta replied. Determined as she was, she still held great worry over what the outcome might be. It would now be upon her...

The revelation was dreadful. She had solemnly sworn to lead in even the darkest times, but even in her wildest worries, Raëlta could never have imagined a scenario as horrible as this. That the darkness had claimed their will and memory was known, but the dark acts they'd been forced to commit...

Raëlta was speechless and in shock of it all. She remained stunned and silent, but nodded her head with affirmation that she was ready for what terrible visions were waiting. The ground beneath her feet began to stir, and the priestess shifted her stance anxiously. Her surroundings twisted and...

The scene remained serene for a moment, and then doors opened before her to reveal a dazzling and inviting white light behind it. Raëlta found herself moving towards it, but the light suddenly vanished as she passed through. The calmness she had felt vanished in an instant, turning to...

The trip to the mountainside was tense, and Raëlta remained obsessed over what it was she had not known. Even without knowing, the priestess was aware that all she thought she knew was irrevocably wrong. Restoration of the song had been what she entirely been most preoccupied with, and clues had...

“....How? Why?” Raëlta asked, broken that such a secret could be kept for so long. For all these years, she had been so despondent in her search for knowledge Ánië claimed to have been holding the entire time. To learn that the answer had been so close to her stunned the priestess, and she...

Though she cared for all her congregation, Raëlta approached Ánië not as a religious leader, but a close companion. It was rather odd for her to be absent during a celebration of such scale, and the moment Raëlta had noticed her missing, she had begun to worry. Ánië had been a valued friend of...

It was one matter to reach a position where she was honoured to be trusted as a priestess of the Shoraes, she had never imagined that they could ever be without. Today, Raëlta rejoiced not only that the song had come back to them, but that the darkness had vanished. The return of the sacred song...