Aurelia's easy confidence drew a slightly skeptical look from Gideon, though it swiftly turned to a wry smile. "Then please, lead the way." He gestured ahead, perhaps a little smug disbelief in his tone; he liked to think he had a well-tuned sense of evil and good, that he would have been able to find the shrine, had it been easy to locate, from simple vile energy that it had to give out.
"Why do Ascended want to change things? Oh, if that were a simple question." He sighed, trying to think of the best way to explain a history that began hundreds of years ago and twisted and turned it's way to the present day. "Their leader, the Voice, rebelled against the Old Gods and caused a war hundreds of years ago. Long story short, she lost that war." Being trapped in the barrier was as good as defeat, in his opinion. "Now she's bitter and uses her Ascended like pawns, to corrupt and change the world into her vision of perfection - no longer human. Machine, virtual and distant."
He had not met many Ascended, but when he did he always found it disquieting; how they did not breathe, their machinery and updates working away to increase their natural abilities. "Abandoned generally are not able to choose their plight, so I have sympathy for them. It is possible for them to seek redemption with the Gods. Ascended, generally, have chosen their lot, and so are beyond hope."
"Why do Ascended want to change things? Oh, if that were a simple question." He sighed, trying to think of the best way to explain a history that began hundreds of years ago and twisted and turned it's way to the present day. "Their leader, the Voice, rebelled against the Old Gods and caused a war hundreds of years ago. Long story short, she lost that war." Being trapped in the barrier was as good as defeat, in his opinion. "Now she's bitter and uses her Ascended like pawns, to corrupt and change the world into her vision of perfection - no longer human. Machine, virtual and distant."
He had not met many Ascended, but when he did he always found it disquieting; how they did not breathe, their machinery and updates working away to increase their natural abilities. "Abandoned generally are not able to choose their plight, so I have sympathy for them. It is possible for them to seek redemption with the Gods. Ascended, generally, have chosen their lot, and so are beyond hope."
GIDEON
You claim to be virtuous, but you're a liar
And you'll feel the heat of the flames
And you'll feel the heat of the flames
