Fighting and Running From Turning

[Nikolas Faselli]

CANTHAR
Objective: Meet Kaine
[ [member="Darth Vornskr"] ]

A long time ago, Maria sat on top of her throne in the Arx Mortis Citadel far far away from her cousin, turned around, leaving her family behind and destroying her past. Her heart had run with a speed she had never experienced before and his stomach had had a feeling of coughing up all of her internal organs.

She had contacted the Sith Lord with a hologram, not daring to face the man's wrath. Because she had known what it would end up like.

And after the call, she had destroyed her powerful citadel -- she burned it down with all of her slaves locked in. What a way to start a Jedi life, right? But light had come to her, even though up until that day she had been tormented by the chaos and nightmares of the mistake she had made.

Now she got to feel all of that once again, although a lot closer to her cousin. And in a lot more dangerous conditions. The air which came out of her lungs trembled, her heart pounded with extreme speed and she felt like throwing up once again. But she also felt some kind of a confidence inside.

Sigh.

And, standing right in front of the door of Kaine's home, she repeated the words she had spoken an even longer time ago.

"Kaine, come out..."

 

[Darth Carnifex]

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The towering temple of Canthar. Long ago it was a place of worship to the Gods and to the ancestors who had joined them in the Great Beyond, but during more enlightened times it became an administrative center for the entire city as superstition and religion was slowly replaced by reason and scientific thought. While there are many shrines and lesser temples dotted throughout the sprawling city, the massive domed citadel at its center is now nothing more than place of bureaucracy, government officials regularly moving in and out of its giant golden doors. However; the temple had been expanded upon in recent months with the destruction of the Emperor's private castle in the northern Iron Mountains at the hands of those that would seek to overthrow his rule, but the Emperor's presumed death were exposed as nothing more than lies and rumors when he returned to the people and cast down all who claimed him dead and gone.

Of course many more believed him dead and deified him in the temples across Panatha (as was the custom with many Kings and Queens who had been taken by the pale shroud of death), but when he returned from the grave more powerful and youthful as ever many claimed it to be a miracle. Deified upon death, and now reborn in the mortal world who could dare not claim him to be a living God? The Emperor knew that there was more to his return than Gods and mysticism, but in a short time after his return a cult sprang up around him proclaiming him divine. Some even went as far as to proclaim him the mortal reincarnation of Canthar, while others claimed he was the avatar of Kemb Oh-oss (King of Kings, God of Gods, and the central figure in the Epicanthix pantheon of deities) given flesh and thought. He knew better, but the praise and devotion to him was not discouraged, but rather encouraged by the Vornskr'ei who had already worshiped him before his rebirth.

Now as it was before so too is it happening again, and the Emperor descended from his throne to meet the blood of his blood beckoning an audience at the gates of his domain. The great golden doors opened wide, darkness billowing out and with it the Emperor of the Epicanthix. He wore a great flowing robe of black zeyd-cloth covered by banded plates of black armorplast that protected his chest, stomach, back, shoulders, forearms, groin, thighs and his shins. His hood was pulled back to reveal his youthful features, so distinctly different than the aging look she knew previously. He smiled darkly and spread his arms wide to welcome his wayward cousin:

"Maria. All these years of trying to track you down, and out of the blue you come knocking on my door? Have you come to confess your sins before the axe?"

[member="Maria Natalja"]