Safrin
Safrin’s expression softened at Hadama’s question, not with indulgence, but with something deeper—approval tinged by caution. Her eyes, still dark with grief, flicked with a faint spark of her usual starlit brilliance as she regarded him. Not every strike needs to be parried, Tidebreaker, she agreed, drifting closer once more. Some are best avoided entirely.
The water around them pulsed in rhythm with her voice, shadows flickering like whispers of distant galaxies. Safrin's fingers lifted, brushing faintly across Hadama’s brow, and in her touch bloomed an image—rippling light refracting through water, illusions dancing over the seafloor, a predator’s eyes passing over prey cloaked by shifting currents.
What you seek is not to vanish, but to mislead. To move like the moon through clouds—there, and then gone. You must become a false current, a mirrored wave, so that when their wrath falls, it lands on the space you left behind.” Her hand drifted away, and with it, the illusion unravelled like smoke in the deep.
I will teach you,” she said at last, voice lowering to something more intimate as she whispered what it was he would have to do to learn such a thing.
Hadama has been given a quest! He must
1. Encounter and consider some sort of optical illusion
2. Encounter and consider some sort of aural illusion
3. Try and create a practical illusion (does not have to be successful)
4. Complete a training thread focused on obscuring his opponent's view of him
The water around them pulsed in rhythm with her voice, shadows flickering like whispers of distant galaxies. Safrin's fingers lifted, brushing faintly across Hadama’s brow, and in her touch bloomed an image—rippling light refracting through water, illusions dancing over the seafloor, a predator’s eyes passing over prey cloaked by shifting currents.
What you seek is not to vanish, but to mislead. To move like the moon through clouds—there, and then gone. You must become a false current, a mirrored wave, so that when their wrath falls, it lands on the space you left behind.” Her hand drifted away, and with it, the illusion unravelled like smoke in the deep.
I will teach you,” she said at last, voice lowering to something more intimate as she whispered what it was he would have to do to learn such a thing.
Hadama has been given a quest! He must
1. Encounter and consider some sort of optical illusion
2. Encounter and consider some sort of aural illusion
3. Try and create a practical illusion (does not have to be successful)
4. Complete a training thread focused on obscuring his opponent's view of him
