shadowbringers

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shadowbringers

beneath the stars It's been a week since our newest expansion officially launched! And, I know, I know... some of you already have a lot of feelings that you need to air out. But canon updating in your games is a struggle! And so is finding PSL partners! Luckily, that's what we're here for. This is a post for you to play out all the Shadowbringers-related content you might be dying to write. Behind-the-scenes nonsense? Between-the-scenes angst? It's all welcome here! 1. Toplevel your character. Include any details you might think are relevant. Or don't. As always, we're not the cops. 2. Reply to other people's top levels! 3. Have fun! ⚔ Please clearly mark all spoilers in your thread subject lines. Clearly indicate whatever spoiler preferences you may have. We're only a week into the expansion, officially, and there's no shame if you're not far in it or haven't started it yet. ⚔ You are welcome to play characters who are new to Shadowbringers. However, please try to avoid topleveling with icons and descriptions that convey major plot-related spoilers. If you aren't certain about a character's playability, feel free to PM parser.

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[crystallyna]

[By all the gods she hopes it is forever.

No one will ever know how she felt when, some days after her first sighting of stars, the primordial Light came back. It is her intention to never tell a soul. The weight of it was crushing, the evidence writ large that somehow, somewhere, the not-so-covert efforts of the warriors from beyond had failed. That the danger could return.

Some days she forgets, and when she wakes to full sunlight, rushes to the window to make certain the sky is blue.

All of this she shakes away, for the Exarch has asked her a question.]

Well enough. If it is a slow adjustment it is no worse than any other.

[She was raised in the Crystarium, of course, but knows enough of the origin of the viis to know they favor the shadows beneath protective trees and old stone.]

Remembering to carry a lantern on night patrols proves more difficult.

[rewritten_history]

[The Darkness's return had been necessary, but almost as difficult to adapt to as it had been welcomed. He knew as much himself - though all of his efforts had been to see just that happen, despite his shrouded eyes, he had still been a century in living with the ever-present Light as they all had been. From his window into the rest of the worlds, even his own eyes needed shielding and guidance until they were used to the First's new state of existence.]

[But it was something he would forever welcome, when it meant the Source would survive, and what remained of the First still had a fighting chance.]

Good to hear. It will be second nature in time, hopefully time short enough that it hardly seems to pass at all. You must have seen some of the stars by now. I can only imagine what that must have been like.

[This, he had wanted for his people more than anything. The stars among the darkness well beyond their world. Places they had never been to, may yet never know, but in beauty beyond compare no less. How many nights had he spent beneath the leaves of the trees, looking up to those glistening spots in the sky, wondering whatever it was his youthful thoughts would? How long had he spent searching through tome after tome with little more than starlight to guide him? The wonders of the world could make one feel so small, so humble, but the glory of the universe beyond...]

[The First should know that at least once, he thought. Privately, that had been one of his wishes for his people, and he hoped they would know it.]