"Thank you, Arianwyn," Vel answers seriously.
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"Thank you, Reason. Though the child will be Kargzant -- you will have to think of a way to teach without books!" Vel teases. "Be safe, my friends, all of you."
"Thank you, Whiteclaw," Vel murmurs, returning the embrace after a moment's surprise. "And if I can do anything from my position here . . ."
Spoiler:
Assuming awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome is beyond the local cultures Vel is unlike the others can remember ever seeing her. She joins the celebration, enjoying the kumis and dancing with Morgzil, with smiles and genuine laughter. One who didn't know her would call her carefree.
AP: Gain 5 temp hp and do 11 fire to each adjacent enemy.
"You hope what doesn't happen too often, Kia? That I burst into flame, that Adalram does, or that I have a child?" Vel laughs merrily, and moves to join the celebration.
As the flames subside, Vel gasps in shock, though at what may be hard to tell. She touches her stomach, wonderingly. Then she looks to Adalram on her shoulder, where he still glows brightly. The raven has transformed into a being of flame. Vel smiles.
Vel leads the way, Adalram perched on her shoulder.
Took a new (heroic) feat called Burn Everything (how could I not?), and retrained Arcane Familiar from heroic to paragon.
Yes, indeed. It was properly climactic, too! Poor Kia had to spend much of the fight keeping Vel alive, but it's very much appreciated :-). Since I last looked at paragon paths, they added one in July Dragon -- "Master of Flame." Sorry, Adalram, there's really no contest.
After Vel and Morgzil have ensured that each other and the rest have survived, Vel looks around at the battlefield and the battered companions. "We did it," she says in quiet tones. "We brought the Skyburning." Vel, for perhaps the first time since the others have known her, sounds awed.
Vel, arguably against better judgment, stands once more. Ignoring the hunter and aiming her arcane might into the land under Pashira, she echoes the Pan, "We are the Chosen!"
Vel, seeing no targets and only her dying husband, shrieks her rage. Drawing on her limited knowledge of Kargzant spirituality, she extracts power form the land.
Vel stands and stumbles to the consecrated ground, sending Adalram to harry the ravager.
Standing, Vel sends her illusions at the hunter once more.
Vel, rejuvenated by Reason's prayer, sends illusions of giant chipmunks to harass the landbinder.
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Vel smiles as she feels restored by the land, and looks about. She returns to one of her old standbys and hampers the landbinder's upcoming attacks with pestering illusions.
Seeing another landbinder, Vel knows she must keep standing as best she can -- even if that means foregoing another attack. She dashes out of the fortifications, toward the center circle and the consecrated ground.
Returning to form, Vel unleashes a blast of flames on two of the tencaru, with Adalram's aid in targeting the mystic.
Vel gamely returns to the fight, moving back to the fortifications and enchanting the tencaru.
Trying the only thing she can think of to escape the landbinder's rage power, Vel backs out of the fortification and drinks a healing potion. Then, struck by inspiration, she discharges her power point at the ground, triggering the flames of her tattoo.
Vel, staggering slightly, takes position beside her husband, even as Adalram moves against the Landbinder. She shows it a thing it has likely never seen, the face of its own death.
Even though the illusion has less than its full effect, the landbinder still must struggle against its own fear.
Vel smiles at Morgzil, and takes the moment's respite to recover her wind.
Vel sees her opportunity and unleashes a cascade of flames in the center of the plateau, enveloping the three ravagers. Even as the flames erupt, Vel's armor flashes red, shielding her from the worst upcoming damage.
Vel, battered and sore, stands unsteadily then, in a blur of motion, vaults the northwest fortification to land inside. She does, though, think to leave Adalram in place to target her spells.
"The land's first move is six of these things? Arianwyn, I don't think you need to antagonize anymore, hm?"
Vel draws on her arcane knowledge to draw power from the land, while Morgzil stands watch.
Vel watches the preparations, then she and Morgzil nod at each other and step to the sacred ground beside Ogrol.
"Where do we go? To the Ward?"
Where is everyone? This isn't really Vel's area of strength.
Arianwyn, Kia: Spoiler: "A 'game'," Vel snorts. "Maybe if we returned you . . ."
Her flare of temper ebbing for the moment, Vel is ready to resume the journey to the Sun Riders.
Arianwyn, Kia: Spoiler: Vel signals Kia to join her and rides up next to Arianwyn, eyes blazing. "Alright, Arianwyn, this has gone long enough. Ever since we met you -- naked and bound and in need of rescue, as I recall -- you've been pursued by something. You've never explained, and I haven't much cared, but now whatever it is has sent shades to kill us, twice, including on my [wedding night.
"As long as we're involved with you, this is apparently going to keep happening. What by the gods or hells is going on with you, and what are you going to do to stop it?"
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