A Master's Summon [Soliael]

[Coci Heavenshield]

Exocron​

Near the Training Fields​

The Clearing​

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.. and so Aerin waited within the clearing for her Master's arrival.

Hidden beneath the shade of the trees that shirked the training fields on Exocron, Aerin rested leaning against the twisted exposed root of a tall oak. The day is warm as usual, and she had taken to wearing lighter clothing. She had too. Perilous is the weather to her and something would have to be done about it, if it was possible. But that would be for another time.

She raised her face to the shade and let the cool air dance on her face, she smiled. However, her soul is uneasy. Now away from Midvinter, having traveled much throughout the galaxy, she had developed a wanderlust and a wanting for adventure and she could feel the bite of it on her ankles. But that would have to wait too, her time will come soon enough. To satiate this lust or at least, forestall the inevitable .. she would wander the plains, the mountains, the forests of Exocron. Forever find her solace in nature, something she is much at home within and connected to.

Aerin turned her body and rested her back fully against the bark, pushed her hips forward and bent her knee to rest her heal against the trunk. In her hand the tip of an arrow, one she had fashioned new and with a purpose of design. She turned it over inspecting the handy work of which she is very satisfied. She would test it later, no bow required this day.

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[Soliath Devin Talith]

Soliael appeared in the clearing almost out of no where.

That was to say, one minute the small patch of grass he now stood on was empty, and then in the blink of an eye the tall almost gaunt false good stood there, no mask adorning his face. How he did it was difficult to say, though it was impressive nonetheless. For a few moments the man that was Soliael peered about the clearing, bright orange eyes shifting about, as if he had not visited this part of his world before.

Finally his eyes fell on Aerin, a strange expression of curiosity on his face.

“What an interesting little place you've found.” Soliael said almost wonderingly as he looked about the forest clearing. “It amazes me how much variety has started to occur on Exocron.”

Soliael spoke as if he should know every place on Exocron by heart. Such a thing was silly of course, but then again when one claimed to be a god, shouldn't they know everything?

An interesting dilemma.
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[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

[SIZE=12pt]It will take a little getting used to, her Master with the ability to appear out of nowhere, and one never knew exactly where he would show at times. A smile turned her lips so slightly, as her body pushed off the trunk of the tree, turned and bowed to him on his approach. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=12pt]“Greetings Master”,[/SIZE][SIZE=12pt] her head still lowered, “It seems I have taken to find repose within the shade of this clearing, I hope it is to your liking?”. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=12pt]She stood now tall and straight of back, her eyes lifting to her Master’s .. she had remembered and would always be thankful for her Master show kindness the day she first met him. Although there is no snow today, the clearing did provide a coolness that revitalised her. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=12pt]“I feel the same for the Galaxy Master, much I have seen, but I know more is to come”. [/SIZE]

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

Soliael nodded for a moment, yes this was to his liking.

He had always enjoyed the wilds of Exocron, but he never really got the time to move about them. He was been usually after all, though Amorella administered the day to day proceedings of what was Moross' now vast territory, Soliael still maintained much of the Crusades arms, technological research, and anything of that nature. He was the god of knowledge after all, the artificer of his nation.

“Perhaps.” Soliael said with a slight smile. “You will see it all some day.”

Pleasantries were all well and good, but even Soliael could only talk about nothing for so long. They were here to teach Aerin to use the force, to drive her into the next plane of existence, to push her to the edge.

“Let us begin.” He prompted her to the center of the clearing.
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[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

Without any further delay, Aerin moved toward her Master and the center of the clearing. She too is eager to work more and learn as much as her abilities will allow. What that limit will be is yet unclear, but she knew she would have all the help from him.

Much she had already learned, and fast.. she had too in order to just survive within the Galaxy, some she had learned from a very young age, but being ignorant of the Force or rather how to enhance those abilities she is very much an untapped resource. Even she had no idea of the strength of her powers.

"I am ready to begin", she said as she stood in front of the man.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

(Worst Master ever, sorry)
[member="Ærin Firebrand"]
Well that was good at least.

Soliael knew from experience that if a student wasn't willing to learn with an open mind, then they would be doomed to fail. His last apprentice had been willing to learn of course, more than anyone he ever knew. However when it came to the application of that knowledge...well she had been a tad skittish. He smiled slightly at the memory of the training, though it quickly faded as he looked at Aerin.

“The Force.” Soliael began “Stays with you at all times. It is around us, in the trees, the earth, the wind. Everywhere really.”

He began to explain the nature of the force, drawing upon its strength in the Jedi way. He figured for her it would be easier that way. “Close your eyes. Concentrate. Open your senses to the world around you.”

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]


This she had been doing most of her life, nature to her was something she had connected to from a very early age. She had been taught by her father to walk the forest, to spend time among the wilderness of Midvinter, a place he had loved which he instilled into her. Even though he was not her biological father, her connection to him remained. Maybe through the force, maybe he had been force sensitive, she will never know.

However, this bond with nature at the time was done out of need for survival, to fish to hunt .. to read the environment in all is glory and danger. This coupled with her lessons with Crystal, now proved fruitful for Aerin, as in those lessons Crystal had shown her to trust the force, not the physical senses, and she learned the lesson hard but well.

Aerin moved away from her Master, only to walk the clearing. As she did her awareness reached around her, pulling the force to her before she sort the fibers of natures, the living force within everything around them. Her Master's presence the first to come to her, his power pulsing within the area like a radiate light. Energy and strength she had never felt from another before. Others she had sensed but nothing as strong a Soliael.

From him she began to widen her reach, whispering threads of the force weaving searching touching the very planet and all that lived within and above her. Aerin allowed herself to revel within the power, simply let it seep into her being. The planet is a living thing, with a nature pulse of energy individual and unique, Exocron sang to her.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

(Seriously, you should probably punch me or something)
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“Exocron is special.” His voice rang out in the clearing, breaking the silence and perhaps Aerins concentration.

“The world has been changed, manipulated by me.” He walked through the clearing for a moment, then she would feel a spark of strength from him, a pulse that faded through the earth and reverberated back to him. In an instant the field began to erupt with wind, tree's began to shift, blades of grass trembled, and the sky itself seemed to grow dark and foreboding. “Much of this world has been suffused with our strength, my strength.”

The Gods of Moross had worked long and hard at changing and manipulating Exocron, and the world itself teemed with the force. “It is not alive, not like Zonama Sekot or the ancient homeworld of the Yuuzhan Vong, but it is special.”

There was an implication of something within his voice, as if he hinted at some hidden purpose behind Exocron. Though what that was was impossible to tell.

"The force keeps it alive. What was once desert, is now forest. Where tundra once stood, now roll crested hills of wheat. Exocron lives by the grace of the force." And the Gods of Moross, though he left that part out.

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

((punches... ... all good fine Sir. I have kept busy))

It was as if the every ground began to shake beneath her feet. At first Aerin felt a spike of fear, not understanding what was going on. Was it a quake? she had felt them on Midvinter but no, this was different, controlled and deliberate. She looked back at the Master, a strength in him reached her through the force and her eyes widened. What power is this that one man can wield? Do I have that power? she pondered.

Aerin began to walk around the clearing once more, her head turned in all directions as the environment changed right before her eyes. She had seen him do this before, when they first met in the forest. He had produced for her snow to cool the air and now this. Her head lifted to the skies, the darkening clouds rolled above them and she smiled at the sight of them. In her heart she hoped for snow.

"That is incredible", she whispered, in her child like way she has at times, still very much learning the ways of the galaxy and of the Force. What purpose they had for Exocron, a mystery yes, and one she really does not need to know, but what she now desired was to learn how to do this, so that one day she could do the same, rule over others as they do. Aerin's ambitions are far more then those within Moross who simply just want to gain strength in the force. She wants that, and more.

She knowns nothing of those he spoke of, one day she will. But that is of no matter to her.

"I want to learn this strength My Lord, how to make something dead come alive ...", she thought for a moment, "... But forgive My Lord, I understood that the force is within everything, how did this planet come to die?".

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

(I know, you're definitely ready for Knighthood. Give me the word and i'll do an OOC promotion so you can have the tag )
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“Exocron is and old world. It is a planet that for ages held no people, no colonies, nothing. The world held nothing but rubble and ruin, dust and deserts, tundra's and huge wastelands of nothing.” Soliael spoke of history, a history that was well known. Many worlds in the outer rim were similar to what Exocron had once been, nothing but dust and cliffs, huge expanses of desert and tundras. Exocron had been changed though, by Soliael and Amore. “It was dead, because out here, so many things are.”

This place was harsh, it always was. “While the force is in everything, it trails only in some. This can be seen best in people.” Soliael crouched down in the clearing. “Humans.” He smiled. “Normal humans, some are extraordinarily powerful in the force. My Father was a Kiffar, a powerful Sith of great renown and strength, a Man gifted with the force. His siblings on the other hand, could not even delve the surface of the force, they were unable to touch it in the slightest.”

That was simply the way of the force.

Some were capable of lifting mountains, others were not even aware of its presence. It was odd how that worked. Compared to his own siblings for instance Soliael was a monster in the force, capable of great acts of terror with a single snap of his fingers, Nemene had been incapable of lifting a large rock.

“Planets are the same. There are entire worlds infused with the force, Zonama Sekot, the living planet is said to hold the very essence of life in its breath. Other worlds were infused with the force, Byss, Ruusan. Not every world will be gifted as they were, and some suffer from the infusion of the force.” He of course meant Korriban, the most famed darkside planet in the galaxy. It was nothing but dust and rock, the opposite of Exocron in fact. “Then there are worlds that hold nothing. Like Exocron was.”

He shrugged, as if it was simply the way of things. “The Force is everywhere, but it's reach is not always all encompassing. Exocron was simply never wholly touched by the force, not until we came and made it."

That was the best he could explain it.

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

She only turned around in a circle to follow him as he spoke. The words now making sense to her, and a clarity formed in her mind. For so long Aerin had wondered on this, why she and her sister had the gift but her parents did not. Why other noble people far better then she or others she has encountered have not been given this ability. She nodded her head in understanding as it made sense. The planet was like people, devoid of the force but can one give this gift to another? Like her Master had given to the planet?

"Master, is it possible to give this gift to another? the Force resides in all living things, even if they can not sense it or use it, if that is so, is there a key to unlock it for them?", she asked, she did not know the answer to this but if it was possible? her mind raced with the idea of it. However, deep in her heart she knew the answer, or maybe they could to a degree but not like her Master or even herself. She wondered if she would ever be as powerful as the man before her.

"How do I learn to do this?", she indicated around her at his work, which encompassed the entire planet. "Please teach me the ways through the Force to be able to alter the environment". She looked at him with hope.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

[member="Ærin Firebrand"]

“Possible, yes.” Soliael mused slightly. “Practical? No.”

Though technically the 'infusion' of the force into a being was entirely possible, doing so was often dangerous, and more often than not, lethal. Darth Plagueis had proven that one could alter a person into utilizing the force, but all of his experiments had ended in death with the subject surviving only a short few hours, with a day or two at the most. “The Force does not like being toyed with, apprentice. Altering a Person in that manner is far more...drastic, than altering a planet.”

He mused for a second, then looked at her when she asked her second question.

“Yes.” He said quietly. “That is much simpler.”

The False God bade the young woman to take his place in the center of the clearing, directing her to stand in the very middle of the open patch of grass. There in the center she would feel the power and strength of the life around her.

“Altering the weather, or rather the environment around you, does not draw upon your own strength. Rather, it draws upon the energy already present around you, it call for you to manipulate and change the forces of the things already there.” As he spoke he began to demonstrate. He used only a fraction of his own strength, pushing the forces around him into life. He drew upon the living things around them, pushing and prodding them to change the very air.

Suddenly, the density of the sky changed, the air began to thin, and the cloud above grew darker. A drizzle began to fall through the clearing, tiny specks of rain.

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

Her interest in his words held full attention. As he explained the dangers of what she had asked of him. Tampering with the force is a road paved with many dangers even for a force user, but it was clear to her that the dangers far out weighted the results to do it, and she would not risk his life. Aerin dismissed the notion immediately.

Instead Aerin focused on what she could learn to control, and once more her mind returned to events on Midvinter. Things that had happened to her in the past, unexplained until now, but she realised she had the ability to a degree already. Many times, when faced with a situation of surprise, she had caused a small stirring of the environment. She had put it down to her 'talent' at the time, but did not know of why or how it would occur. She still does not. But small fluctuations around her would shimmer or ripple through her directed at the cause of the event which was mainly around beings.

Once more her eyes lifted to the skies, the air became thin and hard to breath. The small droplets fell to her face as the rain began to fall. She remember the feeling, on Midvinter the day it happened and so she concentrated on that. She could sense him, and his power, although using very little to achieve his fluctuations, the power is evident through the force. The environment spoke to her .. sensing the living force pulsing and 'breathing' around them both. Energy waves invisible to the naked eye, she began to see through her minds eye.

Her hate of the hot weather, ever present, the rain continued .. she wanted to feel the cold on her skin, the subzero temperatures of Midvinter. And she focused on that. Then the air temperature shifted and dropped, the small droplets began to harden and freeze until they formed small pieces of ice.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

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Soliael stood a little ways fro his apprentice, smiling as the snow began to fall.

She caught on quick, but then they always did when they were eager to learn and in their element. The False God let the snow fall for a time, simply standing in silence as he let the flakes fall on his armor and in the clearing. He wondered for a time if she would eventually be able to do this on a mass scale, cover and entire world in a storm of ice that would leave it nothing but a tundra.

He smiled at that thought, always desctruction.

His eyes shifted for a moment, from the sky and then back to Aerin. She had not truly mastered this ability yet of course, there was more to it than simply making it a little cold. He looked at her, then spoke. “Now, do the opposite.”

Soliael would test his apprentice.

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

The enjoyment of the ice was short lived as her Master, asked her to reserve the rain and ice. She knew she had a long way to go before she would be of a standard that would make her Master proud. But she would try. On Midvinter, it is a necessity to be able to read the weather, if one could not one would find themselves in peril and exposed to the mercy of the elements, which on Midvinter are more dangerous then most places.

Aerin looked up into the sky above them, the cloud hanging low in the sky and continued to rain. She stopped her manipulation of the rain drops letting them return to her Master's original intent. She thought about the condition required for such a sudden change in conditions and knew with about air pressure. She needed to focus on that, change the press to warm the atmosphere. It comes from the interior, the warmth of the planet and couple that with the conditions apart from where they stand.

From the earth she focused on the air and bringing it upward to meet that of the cold air of the cloud, little by little the temperature changed, small degrees at first and the air filled with humidity. It was not as hot as she would have hoped, but a start and maybe with more from her Master she could do better.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

Soliael began to circle the girl as he felt the heat touch upon his skin.

He had long sine rid himself of his coat, revealing only a thin layer of a strange metallic surface that seemed to function as some sort of armor. He smiled slightly as the snowflakes in the air melted, and the frozen earth collected on the ground melted into soft pools of water. It happened in only a few split seconds, something he had always enjoyed about the force, Instant Gratification.

“Good.” He said pacing all around her, peering at her. “My Grandmother could use this skill far better than I. She was able to use it to summon storms grander than entire continents on a whim.” Soliael smiled at seemingly nothing, perhaps a memory, then began to speak again. “It's all about the control of your environment. The feel of life around you, the sense of the force warping and moving. Twisting events to your design, changing the flows of everything around you.”

He mused for a moment. Much of the Force was exactly like that, save for a few twists. Instead of changing the living force, twisting what was around you, you changed what was inside you. Nowhere was this greater than in the use of Sith Magic. One drew upon the hatred, the pain, the negative emotions contained within and harvested them.

Soliael smiled, he doubted Aerin would ever seek after that particular bit of knowledge.
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[Coci Heavenshield]

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The effort require of her, had drained her somewhat. Aerin's concentration and ability wavered and the environment returned to its natural state. However, she was delighted she had done it, even only for a short while. More training would see to more results and she knew in time she could master this, but listening to her Master speak of his Grandmother, she doubted she would reach those levels. But still, she would push herself to be the best she could.

As he spoke the way of it became clearer and Aerin knew she had not entirely grasped the focus for it. It is odd, most of her life she had listened to the environment on Midvinter, tasting the air, sense the surroundings, all things within it, but at that time she had no knowledge of the existence of the Force, let alone her abilities to use it. Now she walked the clearing in thought, his words playing in her mind and her life experience as foundation.

Then she stopped and stood still. She began to sense everything around her, it was easier this time now she knew the feeling or rather what to search for. The energy of Exocron pulsed the vibrations she could almost hear. Her body soaked it in, allowing it to find her soul and every fibre of the body strengthened. Ripples of waves on the waters, shifting leaves in the trees, the air crisp and full of live, the small insects in the grasses, everything came to her.

"I understand Master", she simply said.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

[member="Ærin Firebrand"]

“I would hope so.” Sol said teasingly. “It's not a difficult concept to grasp.”

Of course that wasn't true. The force in its very nature was a very difficult thing to grasp. People spent years, decades even studying every singly nuance of It and they still didn't move past the apprentice level. That was why it payed to have a master.

“Shall we continue further down this line? Or do you have more questions.” There were more tricks to controlling the weather. Granted Soliael didn't know everything, but after manipulating and changing Exocron for so long, he knew enough that he could teach Aerin about it for quite some time. The False god suspected that eventually she would surpass him in this area, if only due to her own passions.

That was the way of things, eventually all apprentices surpassed their masters.

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

"I would like to learn more about control over the environment, and the weather", she said turned to face him. "I assume the weather is a big part of this, however, can one manipulate elements that already hold a place in the environment? like turn a body of water, dry without changing the planet or local environment to a desert". This, of course, may not be possible but one is never to know if one does not ask the question.

She recognise this talent within the force as not only to aid and give life where there is none, but could be turned into a weapon. Something that would be useful in the future. "Or fire, if fire already exists, can this work to make it bigger?".

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

[member="Ærin Firebrand"]

“Anything is possible, apprentice. The Force is limitless in what it can do.” He mused for a seconds before turning to the forest in front of him. He dug into his mind for a few minutes, trying to think o where they were on Exocron and exactly what he had created here. He smiled slightly when he figured it out, and began to move out of the clearing, motioning for her to follow. “Knowledge is the key. You have already tested your ability to alter and change circumstances in the environment with the force. Doing what you speak of will be more difficult.”

“Instead of a nudge, you will need a push, instead of small applications of pressures, you will need to use force. Sciences will help, understanding how the environment interacts with itself. The Nature of the fire that you're expanding, how the water cycles work within any given atmosphere. You must understand that everything has a reaction, equal and opposite.” He spoke for a long time this way, until they reached a small lake.

Soliael scanned the surface of the water, knowing very well when he had organized this great body of water to be here. The manipulations of the force were great upon Exocron, and every facet had been born by Soliael.

“If you evaporate a lake, the water must eventually be replaced somewhere else.” He looked to her. “Understand?”