[HQ Ignorance] Scene 61: The King and Queen of Seshnela

[Nic Hughes]

Aalmon's mood remained dark through the season of that name and he 
remained withdrawn through the petty political negotiations that dragged 
out for days at a time. As the weather turned stormier his moods swung, 
he often seemed to laugh at the wrong moment, as if only he could see 
some great joke being played. More often than not he could be found 
slowly turning over in his hands the small silver amulets of his dead 
brother, speaking to them in his strange tongue and paying no attention 
to the living.

As the wedding drew nearer his moods became stranger, he seemed anxious 
and yet he burst out with one of his strange laughs when Anzhur asked 
him to look after the bride to be. Yet the task appeared to cheer him up 
and help him forget his loss for he took to it with gusto and was 
surprisingly gracious with the young noblewoman even as he remained 
distant from his colleagues. As the days went by his moods in private 
began to change with the moon, as it became fuller he seemed to come 
alive as if some part of him was awakening and stirring. As Aalmon's 
prayers worked on the amulets his brother's power began to come alive 
within him and the greatest of those powers was of love and lust and 
seduction.

As the moon waxed this new power seemed to Aalmon an irresistible thing, 
a force of nature that could not be denied or stopped. If he had started 
out calculating to emulate his brother he no longer knew of such things. 
Even in unleashing the power of his brother he discovered how different 
the twins had always been, he could not stand in the light of such 
passion and not be lit up by it himself. Yet he was trapped by his own 
deceit, he could not admit his passion for he had set out for it to be 
secret and there was no way back.

OOC: He is releasing the spirit on the full moon before the wedding, 
combined with his Overcome with Lust feat improvised at 6W I think its 
3W4 plus some minor augments.


Nic



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