Attack on Sylica

[Anastasia]

'More questions,' Syala agrees, 'Dear, your quests always seem to raise them.'

"Still," Antenora turns to Marie and with a smile, "Now you can say that you married up, Marie."

[Ebiris]

"I've been saying that for years, silly!" Marie says with a wide smile as she hangs off Antenora.

'For as many questions as Creation raises, Beyond raises two more,' Alicia responds to Syala, her avatar enjoying the good mood here while actual-Alicia is busy in her own way.

In Balmuria her old home near the temple of Mystra is lit up in an opal glow, a sense of joy filling any who approach it. Her method of handling prayers changes as well, as the general 'comfort and reassurance' prayers are answered with the knowledge that Antenora has risen to take her place as a goddess in Sylica, and her own worshippers are exhorted to celebrate and spread the word. Those in more immediately dire situations praying for help will also find their prayers being answered in a far more flashy and visible manner than she usually embodies.

Today is a day that must be marked, after all.

[Anastasia]

It is indeed marked all around, as celebrations and word spreads and begins.

From here...

Next move?

[Ebiris]

Alicia (real one) and Antenora will go visit Eblis again.

Assuming Antenora wants to anyway. She's the one with the big stuff to share.

[Anastasia]

She does, but she needs time and wants to talk to you before that anyway.

[Ebiris]

That's fine then, we'll take a little while for Anty to get settled.

[Anastasia]

Slight node adjustment to Antenora, tweaked her node goal to match her changed situation. Check it out.

That afternoon, amid general celebrations and revelry, you rest a time. A chance to focus on prayers and simply process the day - so the question is one thing: Where do you rest in Sylica?

[Ebiris]

She does still need to rest a while and recover her spells expended from attacking the raven fortress and fending off Shar's attack - it's been quite a busy day! But she doesn't need to sleep so that's why Alicia is found in her and Syala's private gardens within their palace, sipping tea and enjoying the floral scents around her. All of Sylica is lit in an opal glow to mark Antenora's ascension, and here is no exception.

[Anastasia]

Rest. Rest and peace.

It's a good feeling, recovering yourself in somewhere beautiful. It lets you rest and enjoy the simpler things in life, the more graceful things.

Sometimes you wonder if your ears were born without pointiness purely by a cosmic fluke.

Yet as you rest, Syala is there. She hugs you from behind without a word, "I am so proud of her I could scream," Syala says in a warm whisper, "We've made a tremendous step forward today, Alicia."

[Ebiris]

Well she always did get on well with Taldeer back in Kelara!

"It's hard to overstate, isn't it?" she agrees, leaning her upper body back against Syala. "The two of us were already punching above our weight as far as Gods go. With Antenora rising up we're becoming a true Power." Her smile widens. "Shar must be having the worst day right now."

[Anastasia]

A warm laugh at that, gentle and soothing, "She's not yet begun to have bad days. More importantly, is this something we can repeat, or is three a more ironclad rule?"

[Ebiris]

"Well, where are you counting from? Eblis did it, Antenora did it, Gathgorian and one more unnamed devil did it. That's four already. Five if we count Sylian as having done it as well," Alicia reasons. "I don't know that everyone's going to be capable of it, we'll really have to get Antenora to talk through her experiences in detail and better gauge its success chances - we're going off the map after all. But there's potential certainly."

[Anastasia]

"From what I understand, Eblis said three - Gathgorian, whomever that second is and now Antenora. It implied it has to be three. We don't know if there's some sort of metaphysical restriction here." Syala blows out a breath, "We're off the map as you said, we just don't know." Then she rears back and lightly thwaps your shoulder, "You're turning me into a worrywart, with all your achieving great things and subverting the natural order."

[Ebiris]

"I don't see a connection between Gathgorian's team and Antenora," Alicia shakes her head. "Asmodeus is setting up his own trinity of new gods that Eblis is helping to train, but Antenora isn't beholden to them in any way."

[Anastasia]

Smiling at that, "Let's hope your right. But in the meantime...we haven't celebrated, have we?" Syala says in a throatier voice, "I've yet to make you raise your voice in loud, passionate celebration. I think it's high time we fix that."