[Themis is content to speak of it. The truth is not damning, it merely was.]
When fully half our world gave of themselves to bring about Zodiark, their souls did not vanish. The same was for that additional half again to allow Him to revive the land into a habitable state.
[Pausing, he jumps ahead.]
Upon His vanquishing, so many years later by the Warrior of Light, those souls returned to the Star. They rejoined the Aetherial Sea - the Underworld - to rest, to dream, and perhaps to be reborn anew, should that be their path. But where do you believe they laid for all those untold eons between those two events?
[He taps the space over his heart.]
They dwelt within Him. As His Heart even when I had separated myself from Him in body and soul, I was still very much a part of Him. I felt when he was Sundered, when the Star was rent apart with Hydaelyn's blow - though I myself was spared of shattering. Thus we three were the Unsundered; Emet-Selch, you, and myself. That connection extended to all those souls that dwelt within him.
[Those blue eyes meet Lahabrea's red.]
Fully three-quarters of our world, our people, connected to me. Connected to my mind, my soul. I remained myself as best as I was able, but in the face of such a cacophony of voices - it is no wonder that my own would be drowned out. In the end, yes, much of myself was lost. But I did not lose my duty - I did not lose the love I held. Love has always driven me, and even though I remembered little, lost myself inch by inch, that remained.
So you see, my dear Hephaistos. None of that was your fault. We had thought I would go to my end. I remained. And though my identity slipped away grain by grain... the presence of the others was a comfort. While Emet-Selch mourned and you furiously threw yourself into our great work to save them, I held fast to my convictions - I held them within me, after all.
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Date: 2024-06-05 03:48 am (UTC)When fully half our world gave of themselves to bring about Zodiark, their souls did not vanish. The same was for that additional half again to allow Him to revive the land into a habitable state.
[Pausing, he jumps ahead.]
Upon His vanquishing, so many years later by the Warrior of Light, those souls returned to the Star. They rejoined the Aetherial Sea - the Underworld - to rest, to dream, and perhaps to be reborn anew, should that be their path. But where do you believe they laid for all those untold eons between those two events?
[He taps the space over his heart.]
They dwelt within Him. As His Heart even when I had separated myself from Him in body and soul, I was still very much a part of Him. I felt when he was Sundered, when the Star was rent apart with Hydaelyn's blow - though I myself was spared of shattering. Thus we three were the Unsundered; Emet-Selch, you, and myself. That connection extended to all those souls that dwelt within him.
[Those blue eyes meet Lahabrea's red.]
Fully three-quarters of our world, our people, connected to me. Connected to my mind, my soul. I remained myself as best as I was able, but in the face of such a cacophony of voices - it is no wonder that my own would be drowned out. In the end, yes, much of myself was lost. But I did not lose my duty - I did not lose the love I held. Love has always driven me, and even though I remembered little, lost myself inch by inch, that remained.
So you see, my dear Hephaistos. None of that was your fault. We had thought I would go to my end. I remained. And though my identity slipped away grain by grain... the presence of the others was a comfort. While Emet-Selch mourned and you furiously threw yourself into our great work to save them, I held fast to my convictions - I held them within me, after all.