Re: at the portal
A look washes over Dlarumei’s face that would hint that she has little desire to recant large amounts of information, but she also realizes that there is a need for the party to hear what the tale composes. She hangs her head for a moment, takes a deep breath and lets it out while shaking her head so very slightly. She looks up at the noble and begins.
“There are so many things that if I spoke them your ears could not hear them. Your minds could not absorb the aspects and the meanings of the ideas or facts. There are so many roots supporting this tree of Tekumel and so far reaching are they that none of the others know the rest exist at all. You all are a part of this mighty root system and know almost nothing of the rest of the roots. You know of some roots, like the shunned ones, or the pigmy folk, and other root areas that deal with things you don’t understand, like the ever living wizards. You know that you think they are there but you have no proof.
That last group of beings we ran from are a great example of what I speak. Only but a hand full of people know that they ever were, and fewer know that they still survive. Yet you have seen them with your own eyes. Were I to have told you about them, you may have doubted me or perhaps thought me insane? Any of the things that we have been through on the journey thus far, had I explained them to you before we left Monru, none of you would have come for fear that you would be companied with the touched on a fool errand. We may well be on a fools errand, but not because I am insane, for now you have witnessed many things that have opened up your minds to different possibilities and even thoughts that may cause you to doubt your own knowledge of our world.
I have no desire to engage in lengthy dogmatic debates, nor do I wish to argue the validity of my statements at this time. You ask, and I will give you what you ask for. Just listen and absorb what you will and ponder the rest for some future discussion we will have."]
Another deep breath and she starts. “Look around you, everything on this planet can be moved and manipulated, changed and altered to some end. All you need to understand is how. It is in the understanding that we begin to change our abilities and our knowledge.
There are those, for example, who would liken us to children and the ever living wizards to parents. You understand that while a child certainly does understand how to do many things, and even gifted children seem very advanced, but in comparison to the elder and wiser parent, their knowledge and experience does not even begin to touch the fringes of that parental mind. It is also a fact that children can grow up and surpass their parent’s knowledge and abilities and we foster these beliefs and attributes. To move from a child’s mind to a more adult mind is only a matter of maturing and experience. But, to move onward and beyond that simple advancement takes focus, commitment, force of will, and determination to advance.
This is where we discover magic users, scholars, experts in various fields who we marvel at or respect for their abilities and powers. Yet there are those that would have us believe that there is even grater powers and knowledge beyond that. And there is! But we have a tendency to narrow the field as we advance and focus on more specific things, discarding all else as extemporaneous to our quest. Our knowledge is narrow and specific and that of the Ever living Wizards is massive and extremely broad, and the reasons why we cannot understand them or dare to be like them. We fail to see what they see because we are trained into a completely different culture and understanding of how things work.
And some, my dear nobles, believe that this is done on purpose, to keep there from being too many with such enormous powers. Take Churisan’s “ring demon” or the small sphere he holds now. What are they and to when end were they created. Or did they evolve? What about the sphere of power that Deshnah carries with him. It has been a part of his people for thousands upon thousands of years and gives its care taker life for as long as he wises it to continue. Deshnah, though he has forgotten, is over two hundred years old. The sphere preserves him as he was the day he took over the guardianship from his father, and will continue to do so until Deshnah desires to hand the responsibility over to the next care taker.
Shih and Ssrivan have been changed on this journey in ways that they themselves do not even comprehend. And though it is true that they are gaining insight into whom and what they are and what they are becoming. Neither has even scratched the surface of what their potential actually is.
So here we sit marveling at all that we see like a child who marvels at the light produced by a person who can summon nexus energies to create it. But to that person it is the simplest of spells and uses no effort to create it. We are just in a world that is over our head, but we are making strives into understanding it. Already Shih questions all his has been taught and will have to learn many things all over again. There are those of you who are beginning to examine things in a different light, and sadly there are those who will refuse to look into differences as they are comfortable where they are and have no desire to experience that which is new.
So that I am not accused of avoiding the question, the Livyani Priest and myself have different positions on this issue. I am who I am, nothing more and nothing less. I only take sides on what I feel is right and just and make no presumptions of being an ever living wizard, or even close to those exalted persons. But I do understand them and see them for what I believe they are.
The Livyani Priest, however, holds a completely different convention than I do about the ever living. Though I will not go into detail about him, out of respect, I will tell you that he once lived amongst them and has chosen to separate himself from them on issues that he felt strongly about. Issues of control and manipulation, issues he felt were out of line for such and esteemed group. Though I cannot go into detail I will say that his presence has benefited those of us here and he chooses to promote the positive aspects of what we are and what we can become. So think what you will but you will need to ask him for the specifics of his life and he can share what he will.”
She pauses as though to say, enough for now? And waits to see the parties’ response.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:44, Mon 01 May 2006.