Knowledge shall lead the...

[Anastasia]

"Yeah," Donald says, "With what's going on, of course I have."

Ranbar nods, awaiting your words.

[Corwin]

"We're heading to meet Morwel. If she gives us her blessing, we'll then proceed to the Womb of Arborea and take on the guardian there. Is there anything either of you needs to do first to prepare?"

[Anastasia]

Donald pauses to scratch at his chin, "So just the three of us?" he muses, "This mean what I think it means for us two, Seira?"

[Corwin]

"Yes. You'll fight for the right and honor to ascend, and then, having decided what sort of deity you would like to be in Cauldron's pantheon, you will use the divine seed to join the rest of us properly."

[Anastasia]

Ranbar is silent at this, a step back.

Donald smiles and slaps Ranbar on the back, "Yeah, she's like a hurricane when she gets an idea, isn't she," he says to her, all jovial conversationalist. "If you have any doubts, now's the time, before Typhoon Seira blows you away."

"All of this continues to feel so sudden," Ranbar admits at that. "Just as I grasp a new change, a bigger one comes."

[Corwin]

"I will tell you what I told my daughter," Seira says to Ranbar. "If you don't feel ready for this step, don't take it. We're not half-assing this, as Donald would no doubt prefer to say. Instead, you will have a choice of which of us you will entrust your charge from the divine seed to."

[Anastasia]

"..." A longer pause, "Seira, I just don't know. I'm so honored but first I'm raised, then you make me your proxy and now we're involved for everything and it's so fast," she admits. "I'm just Ranbar, how can I now become a deity so fast?"

"The same way I am? Go with it and do it. You can't fuck it up that bad, hell, you'll make less mistakes than Seira did." Donald says, "Say, I should you tell you about some of them, trust me, she's made her share of them early on."

[Corwin]

"That's actually wrong, I haven't made deity mistakes starting out. Just regular person mistakes, ascending doesn't change that."

[Anastasia]

"Sure it does," Donald smiles now, "Come on, Ranbar, think about it as we go. We'll have time, I bet this isn't going to be the remotest bit easy or quick."

[Corwin]

"Honestly, fast is the way I prefer things to go. It took me over a decade to claw myself up to actually stand on the planar scene from the moment Ao allowed my ascension, and years more before I advanced in the Competition, and there are plenty deities who would consider that blindingly fast. But all of you will beat that record, and that's perfectly fine. I'm happy that you don't have to waste so much time you could've been doing some good on a planar scale and representing us for the mortals."

[Anastasia]

"We also get to cheat," Donald replies bluntly, "I have no complaints about this in the slightest."

[Corwin]

"You know, Draconic has a pretty relevant saying. Carpe diem!"

[Anastasia]

At that all of you fall in and...

How are you approaching this?

[Corwin]

Seira transports the three of them to the edge of Morwel's realm, knocking to request entry.

[Anastasia]

The answer is a doorway that appears, the door opening before your eyes.