Post by Sedna on Mar 28, 2022 16:39:25 GMT -8
When Blaze signals that she wishes to work as a Veiled, Sedna is clearly pleased, but does take time to explain the other counsel's office. Summoning the Elemental to a derelict alley in Whitney, she opens a door to a stone hall of pillars and shadows, overrun with mist.
She explains that a Mourner's role is different from what may be idealized by the lower ranks, and from Blaze's established relationship with Sorrow as stuff of vengeance and burials, she wanted to keep the Torrent informed; whether it was to change her mind or know what she would be managing in the future. It's a violent path of holding the line, and the suffering their Sun Banishers have endured is expected and trained. Roger didn't calm and ferry the dead to rest, or correct blasphemies to the vigil—rather, he was an enforcer of the Ice Law. It was not a path of diplomacy, or even social maneuvering—often you could tell a Mourner from their blunt and calloused approach to life, with what they are expected to do. They passed on brutal sentencing, or chose who was deserving of destruction.
The Veiled, on the other hand maintained decorum and peace within, informing the court with their collective web and preserving sanity, sometimes in the form of taking on a burden to spare their peers. Occultists were valued anywhere, oneiromancers more so. Though Mourners were useless at higher duties without passing on knowledge, the Veiled only served to benefit on being informed of supernatural influences of their marks. With that, Sedna would offer training in the social and mental habits of of the Lost, if Blaze wish to ply her trade in psychology.
Once sworn, Blaze would always have a vote within her council, which in this case was matters of the Freehold's political landscape. The Knight title itself was an allowance to maintain consistency with the Freehold's governance—elected officials by their council to take point when speaking with the Monarch.
The basin was presented for her to take her Oath in silence, drinking from the water of her reflection as her allegiance was sealed for a year and a day.
She explains that a Mourner's role is different from what may be idealized by the lower ranks, and from Blaze's established relationship with Sorrow as stuff of vengeance and burials, she wanted to keep the Torrent informed; whether it was to change her mind or know what she would be managing in the future. It's a violent path of holding the line, and the suffering their Sun Banishers have endured is expected and trained. Roger didn't calm and ferry the dead to rest, or correct blasphemies to the vigil—rather, he was an enforcer of the Ice Law. It was not a path of diplomacy, or even social maneuvering—often you could tell a Mourner from their blunt and calloused approach to life, with what they are expected to do. They passed on brutal sentencing, or chose who was deserving of destruction.
The Veiled, on the other hand maintained decorum and peace within, informing the court with their collective web and preserving sanity, sometimes in the form of taking on a burden to spare their peers. Occultists were valued anywhere, oneiromancers more so. Though Mourners were useless at higher duties without passing on knowledge, the Veiled only served to benefit on being informed of supernatural influences of their marks. With that, Sedna would offer training in the social and mental habits of of the Lost, if Blaze wish to ply her trade in psychology.
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Once sworn, Blaze would always have a vote within her council, which in this case was matters of the Freehold's political landscape. The Knight title itself was an allowance to maintain consistency with the Freehold's governance—elected officials by their council to take point when speaking with the Monarch.
The basin was presented for her to take her Oath in silence, drinking from the water of her reflection as her allegiance was sealed for a year and a day.
