The duty to live

[Anastasia]

Yes. Leave and return here with Seira.

[Ebiris]

Her avatar was just at the Cauldron, but she'll go back herself and retrieve Seira.

"I'll be back as soon as I have her then," she says, opening a gate to Bytopia.

[Anastasia]

Just going to bring Seira along then? If so I'll just move her over here assuming no resistance.

[Ebiris]

That's the plan.

[Anastasia]

Okay, go ahead and contact Seira in her thread real quick.

[Anastasia]

Thus Seira returns with Alicia, to that lakeside where Morwel's presence is strong.

Alicia, Seira. I would reveal a truth to the two of you.

[Corwin]

Seira smiles, always happy to visit with Morwel. And she's even awake this time!

[Ebiris]

"It's one she wants us to keep in confidence," Alicia adds for Seira's benefit since she came into this without the lead-in Morwel gave Alicia.

[Corwin]

"Of course!"

[Anastasia]

Images come in your minds.

A great lake deep in Arborea, one Seira knows because she visited it to obtain a divine seed.

Sorrow, great and terrible.

Division.

Necessity.

A race torn apart, split into two in the deepest layers of Arborea. Eladrin and fey, torn apart from one another.

[Corwin]

"How are these things related?" Seira asks, trying to fit them in like a puzzle in her mind.

[Ebiris]

Well, eladrin and fey are very similar. But so are elves, so Alicia always took it as one of those things where a lot of creatures are similar to elves in the same way so many are similar to humans.

"So you're telling us that eladrin and fey split from the same root?" Alicia asks. She thought it would have more to do with what Shar's doing, given the context of their discussion.

[Anastasia]

Yes.


There were once only eladrin. Events conspired that the fey were needed, and it fell on my shoulders to make that sacrifice. To divide my house, to put it to the shadows so that few know the truth. The leShay are those reborn eladrin who became the first fey, some of the greatest of the ancient eladrin made that sacrifice, and thus, some of them fell to the Unseelie Court when winter's coldness stole them away.


Were I to reveal that I rule the fey under a different name and identity, chaos would follow. To allow me so openly such a lever over the Primes would be intolerable.

[Ebiris]

"Morwel has heard whispers of new deities sworn to Shar. A daemon, a gloom, and a leShay," Alicia then gives Seira some extra context as she now understands the reason for why Morwel is telling them this now.

"Does this mean... you're also Queen Titania? What of the Queen of Air and Darkness? Or Oberon?" she then asks Morwel.

[Corwin]

"That daemon, any chance it's Yarus?" Seira asks curiously.