renascence
Geto Suguru dies twice; Gojo Satoru exploits a technicality.
Geto Suguru dies twice; Gojo Satoru exploits a technicality.
He wore that easy smile of his—the one he wore when he was the Blade of Frontiers, saving innocents and slaying beasts. Was I the innocent or the beast?
we both know the answer to that question.
The relentless onslaught wore him out, his muscles raw, his innards still aching for more. He craved reprieve from it, a solace, or something — anything — to sate it, to head it off, to control it before it controlled him.
He would find it in a tucked-away druid grove: a man who’d jumped to their rescue, a hero who saved their hide from the goblin raid.
When a rogue investigator’s search for her missing brother leads her to cross paths with an assassin, both discover that some truths are worth killing—or dying—for.
They call them Adaar the Mage-Traitor. In the Winter Palace, bold Orlesian nobles whisper of Adaar the Usurper-King. And disquieted by their curved horns and towering stature, they declare them Adaar the Savage-Ox.
In remote places where the Empress’s grasp does not reach, they’re known as Adaar the Fair, the Just, the Gentle. The Captain decides he likes that better: it rolls off smoother on the tongue.
Warden Blackwall does not like it.
He thinks it corrupt.
Childe gets lost in the Chasm and makes an unlikely friend.
Lann didn’t consider himself particularly devout — at least, not to the extent of these two — though he dimly recalled praying to the angels in his youth. Kneeling before Lariel’s sword, whispering his wishes to holy steel. Attempting to touch it, his hovering hands feeling divine, searing heat. Nothing came of it, of course. What god would listen to an abyss-touched mongrel?
The Knight Commander and her retinue pay another visit to Martyr Zacharius’s Cemetery. Lann ponders his mortality.
Set in early Act 2.
Shadowheart finds solace in Marcy, a drow bard, as she deals with the aftermath of Nightsong’s revelation.
Wyll pays a visit to his father and finally airs out his grievances.