Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-2165692-20180514171731/@comment-2165692-20180618162738

"There has been many Era's since anyone came here." he answered Enkaris then looked at the others "I assume you are here for the bow, Why else would you be here? For the thousands of years I've served as the Chantry's sentinel, there hasn't been a single visitor here for any other reason. They request Auriel's Bow, and I request their assistance. It's been repeated so many times, I can't imagine it any other way. I can help you get it, but first I must have your assistance. I need you to kill Arch-Curate Vyrthur...my brother."

Ellina appears shocked at the request "Kill your brother, why?"

Gelebor sighs and speaks again "The kinship between us is gone. I don't understand what he's become, but he's no longer the brother I once knew. It was the Betrayed... they did something to him, I just don't know why Auri-El would allow this to happen. They swept into the Chantry without warning and began killing everyone without pause. I've seen him. But something's wrong. He never looks as though he's in pain or under duress. He just...stands there and watches, as though waiting."

Lia looked at him and said "Have you tried getting into the Inner Sanctum?"

"Leaving the wayshrines unguarded would be violating my sacred duty as a Knight-Paladin of Auriel. And an assault on the Betrayed guarding the Inner Sanctum would only end with my death."

Serana stepped forward "You mentioned Wayshrines?"

"Yes, let me show you." Gelebor says and casts a spell The monument nearby rises, revealing it was actually a small, shrunken pavilion with only a ceremonial basin inside. "This structure is known as a wayshrine. They were used for meditation and for transport when the Chantry was a place of enlightenment. Prelates of these shrines were charged with teaching the mantras of Auri-El to our Initiates."

Serana looked into the pavilion "What's that basin in the center signify?"

Gelebor answered "Once the Initiate completed his mantras, he'd dip a ceremonial ewer in the basin of the wayshrine's center and proceed to the next wayshrine."

Serana looked at him for a moment "So these Initiates had to lug around a heavy pitcher of water. Marvelous. How long would they have to do that?"

"Well, once the Initiate's enlightenment was complete, he'd bring the ewer to the Chantry's Inner Sanctum. Pouring the contents of the ewer into the sacred basin of the Sanctum would allow him to enter for an audience with the Arch-Curate himself." Gelebor explained

Lia spoke before Serana could as any more. "So we need to do so m in order to enter the inner sanctum and claim the bow? Carry water from each wayshrine in order the open the way?"

"I know how it all sounds, but if there was another way I'd have done it long ago. The only way to get to my brother is by following in the Initiates' footsteps and traveling from wayshrine to wayshrine just as they did. The first lay at the end of Darkfall Passage, a cavern that represents the absence of enlightenment." Gelebor noted as he retrieved the Ewer and held it out.

"So one of us has to carry the ewer and serve as the 'initiate'." Lia said, she thought for a moment then as if a light went on in her head she looked at Enkaris. Serana followed her gaze and also looked at Enkaris followed by Ellina doing the same, all excpecting him to be the one.