Welcome!

to Elysiphim’s third story prompt! Find out what happens after your last choice! There will be a prompt you can submit to earn talons. Talons are the event currency. Unlike other prompts, this one will reward a flat riyal bonus of 10 just for participating. Where you would normally calculate riyal, you instead will calculate talons for your piece! This prompt may be done Once per character! Characters that participated will recive something called a feat! This is like an achievement that will be displayed in your character's inventory! This item will be locked to the character as well. The feats earned by this quest are new home and bear witness. If your character has not recieved a feat, or you believe has recieved the wrong one, please let howlheim know!

Story

Path of Stars

You fall. You fall for what seems like forever, darkness swirling all around you. You cannot see where you came from, nor where you are going. Those that followed you have disappeared from your sight. You try to unfurl your wings, but cannot catch the air. Is there air? Wherever you are, it is cold. You can feel yourself falling faster and faster, with no way of stopping. You shut your eyes, just waiting for it to be over. Would you be over? Suddenly, you feel a warmth, a softness. You open your eyes, your body untouched by the fall. How could you fall so long, yet remain unharmed? You look around, your eyes gazing upon every rock and tree. The grass you landed in, velvety and comfortingly warm, is a radiant crimson. Red clouds roll quietly across the land, covering some areas with a gently haze. The bark of the trees is like flowing wine, and their leaves a bright rose. Large cliffs tower around the valley where you landed, white and pristine, but not intimidating. Hills rise in the distance, soft, rounded, and topped with grass. Small white flowers can be seen dotting the landscape. Fluttering insects and twittering birds fly past you. You look to the sky. It is dark, and rippling with red and black nebulas and clouds. There are no stars in the sky, save for one burning in inverted brightness. A black that is light. As you look at it, you are filled with a deep emotion. Longing? After you take it all in, you try to stand, but your vision blurs and your head fills with dizziness, causing you to crumple into the grass. Then, a shadow was cast above you.

“Easy now, that was quite a trip. I imagine your head is still spinning.” You look up to see the face of Luciel peering down at you. A small smile spreads across his lips, his eyes soft. “Here, let me help you up.” He holds out his clawed hands and reaches for yours. You pull yourself up, but are still unsteady on your feet. You fall forward, but Luciel catches your weight. “It’s alright, lean on me until your head rights.” You lean against him. You can hear his heart beat; slow, steady, calm. How could he be so composed, being tossed into a new and strange land. What even was this land? You look to him again, mouth about to open.

“Hades,” he simply says. “We are in Hades. Our new home.” Your mouth hangs open for a moment. Hades? Where in The Elysium is that? You go to speak again, but Luciel interrupts you. “Excuse me a moment, I need to go help to others. Are you alright on your own?” You nod. “Good. Do feel free to explore this new world, I will be back.” With that, the archangel turns away towards another elysiphim that has just tumbled from… Weaver knows where. You turn back to the sprawling landscape. What do you think of this… “new home”? Do you explore? Or do you wait for Luciel to return? What new step will you take in this new land?

Path of Filigree

You watch as the last elysiphim takes their step forward and the portal close behind them. You are shaken, this is all so… unprecedented. You turn to The Weaver, it broiling with anger. Suddenly, it spread its great wings, a light shines from them so blinding you must turn away. It takes flight, and you have the urge to follow, as does the rest of the crowd. You take flight, following closely behind the weaver as it soars towards Eden.

Once at Eden, it approaches the garden, the tree. You land just before the tree, surrounded by the crowd. The Weaver hovers over its golden leaves, the shining fruit swaying in its wake. There, it takes out the tapestry. You are in awe at yet another show of power. It draws forth a strand, and snaps it with a talon. You all wait for a moment with bated breath. However, after a few moments, it becomes clear that nothing has happened. The Weaver pauses a moment, then pulls another thread from the tapestry. It waits another moment, but nothing occurs. The Weaver burns brightly, its anger coming off in waves. What is happening? It pulls another, and another, but still nothing. Its pulling became more violent and erratic. As it pulled and cut and tore, dark clouds roiled above. Lighting strikes the earth in a frenzy. Many strike the tree, but it strands unchanged; shining and golden. You have never seen such a storm before. Suddenly, a sound reaches your ears, a rush of water. You take back to the skies just in time as the garden of trees is swept away by turbulent waves. The waves of Eden were always calm and gentle, but these… these were violent and wild. They swirled around the golden tree, but not a single drop could touch it. A column of flame spirals down from the sky, directly atop the tree. But once the flames disperse, the tree remains unsinged. The Weaver grows more frantic and furious, tearing apart the tapestry, but it doesn’t seem to notice the chaos arising around it. Finally, It throws down the tapestry in anger upon the tree, tendrils of glowing thread intertwining with its branches. It turns away, and soars back towards City Centre. You look around at the destruction surrounding the tree. Why couldn’t The Weaver touch it? What will happen to Eden now that the tapestry has been destroyed? What will happen to you? Thoughts swirl inside your head. How do you react to bearing witness to such an event?

Complete The Silence prompt with how your character reacts to the events unfolded!

📚Eden now experiences harsh storms on land, rising tides in the oceans, and fire flames in the desert. What once was an idyllic paradise is now changed forever.