Eternal
Since you’ve been dug up, you’ve been trying to make a go of your new life and while it hasn’t been all bad, you feel like ultimately you’re just living a shell of your old life that’s been gone a long time.
You don’t belong to this time, even the new “empire” you’re trying to help re-establish isn’t going to be the one you knew. Maybe some things should just stay in the past.
If you stayed here at least you’d be doing something you actually felt somewhat connected to. Really the only thing you’re going to possibly miss is Jennifer, but she’s not enough for you to stay and she’ll be better off without you in her life anyway.
No point in second guessing your decision. You’re going to stay. You go tell Vision Lord Kells immediately. He’s very happy.
“Excellent! Your presence here will be a great asset to the Eyes! Together we’ll wipe out the wendigo completely from this land!” Kells exclaims.
“I’m sure. However, I’ve got one more thing to do before I join. I have to explain all this to my companion Jennifer and escort her back to Quala.”
“Of course, I understand. Your official ceremony will begin when you return.”
You approach Jennifer who is already packed and ready to go, but when she sees your face she already knows what you’ve chosen to do.
“No…no, you’re not really staying are you?” she asks.
“I’m sorry Jennifer, but I just can’t deal with your time anymore. I don’t know maybe it’s all the complicated politics or the new technology or I just feel constantly out of place, or a combination of several things, but I feel more at home here than I ever did at Nalin.”
“But what about the Empire?! You’re helping it live again! How can you leave now?”
“It’s not my Empire and it never will be. I believe I have helped Quintus enough in getting the foundations in place if he really wants to go forth with the plan he has. If anything I’m doing him a favor by bowing out now. I probably would’ve only ended up killing him anyway.”
“But…but…what about…”
“Us? (Sigh) I think you’d be better off with someone…well more your age for one thing, but also someone with similar interests as you. I believe you’re more enamored by the idea of me.”
“I’m not some idiot with a school girl crush you know! I have genuine feelings for you!” Jennifer exclaims.
“Look, I know and I have feelings for you as well, but it’s just not enough and you’ll be better off in the long run anyway.”
Jennifer looks at you with a mixture of sadness, frustration and anger.
“…fine. You’ve obviously made up your mind about this. And I know how stubborn your Eternal mind works, so let’s not argue about this any longer. You might be right anyway, but I think this decision of yours sucks and is ultimately selling yourself out of a good future. And I’m not talking about just us. I’m talking about all the work you put into trying to resurrect the Empire and now just walking away from it all. I thought you were a man of greatness, but I see now that you are just a man…just like the rest.”
You try to tell Jennifer that you’ll escort her out of Rask, but she tells you she’ll be fine. Seeing that you aren’t going to take no for an answer she reluctantly agrees.
Your journey out of Rask is a quiet and uneventful one. If you weren’t already feeling the cold from the weather, you’d most certainly be feeling it from Jennifer who says nothing to you the whole time.
When you eventually get to the Flogger tribe borders, you part company with Jennifer and the rest. You tell your soldiers to let command know that you won’t be returning and not to bother to come find you.
You try to say goodbye to Jennifer one last time, but she’s already walking towards Quala with her crew. Having nothing else to do, you return to Everwatch to begin your new life.
The Eyes have a big ceremony for you and you’re appointed as a Sightmaster immediately due to your vast years of experience and magic. Kells catches you up on all the procedures and a little more history, but for the most part you’re still wondering if you have made the right decision.
After a month of slaying creatures and banishing wendigos you get in the swing of things and your thoughts about anything connected to Nalin start to lessen.
Within the year, you feel completely at home with only the occasional fleeting thoughts of concerns outside of Rask. Sometimes you half expect someone from Nalin to come, but nobody does. You imagine Quintus is glad to have you conveniently out of his life now (assuming he succeeded with his Empire idea without you) and Jennifer has gotten over you.
Just proves that you weren’t really missed or wanted after all and you did make the right decision. At least here you feel genuinely respected and wanted.
Years go by and you settle into your routine. It’s a very simple one and in time when Vision Lord Kells dies of natural causes, it’s very evident that you are the one to take up the mantle.
Years become decades and Rask continues to remain fairly isolated. You sometimes wonder if Quintus was ever successful and if he’s still emperor or if he failed and Nalin is still a republic. You sometimes also wonder what Jennifer is doing. One time you walked all the way to the Rask borders only to turn back, resisting the sudden urge to revisit that life.
This is your life now and you’re going to stick with this one.
You do begin to have some concerns about the potential future of the Eyes. You’re essentially an isolated “monk” order dedicated to wiping out dangerous monsters. Attrition through combat is not only taking its toll, but age is as well. A discussion about a potential remedy like say actively trying to go outside Rask to recruit new members is held, but ultimately nothing is done.
So ultimately you continue until eventually all that’s left of the order is a few old men and yourself, also of old age by that time.
You all go out one day and never come back.
You don’t belong to this time, even the new “empire” you’re trying to help re-establish isn’t going to be the one you knew. Maybe some things should just stay in the past.
If you stayed here at least you’d be doing something you actually felt somewhat connected to. Really the only thing you’re going to possibly miss is Jennifer, but she’s not enough for you to stay and she’ll be better off without you in her life anyway.
No point in second guessing your decision. You’re going to stay. You go tell Vision Lord Kells immediately. He’s very happy.
“Excellent! Your presence here will be a great asset to the Eyes! Together we’ll wipe out the wendigo completely from this land!” Kells exclaims.
“I’m sure. However, I’ve got one more thing to do before I join. I have to explain all this to my companion Jennifer and escort her back to Quala.”
“Of course, I understand. Your official ceremony will begin when you return.”
You approach Jennifer who is already packed and ready to go, but when she sees your face she already knows what you’ve chosen to do.
“No…no, you’re not really staying are you?” she asks.
“I’m sorry Jennifer, but I just can’t deal with your time anymore. I don’t know maybe it’s all the complicated politics or the new technology or I just feel constantly out of place, or a combination of several things, but I feel more at home here than I ever did at Nalin.”
“But what about the Empire?! You’re helping it live again! How can you leave now?”
“It’s not my Empire and it never will be. I believe I have helped Quintus enough in getting the foundations in place if he really wants to go forth with the plan he has. If anything I’m doing him a favor by bowing out now. I probably would’ve only ended up killing him anyway.”
“But…but…what about…”
“Us? (Sigh) I think you’d be better off with someone…well more your age for one thing, but also someone with similar interests as you. I believe you’re more enamored by the idea of me.”
“I’m not some idiot with a school girl crush you know! I have genuine feelings for you!” Jennifer exclaims.
“Look, I know and I have feelings for you as well, but it’s just not enough and you’ll be better off in the long run anyway.”
Jennifer looks at you with a mixture of sadness, frustration and anger.
“…fine. You’ve obviously made up your mind about this. And I know how stubborn your Eternal mind works, so let’s not argue about this any longer. You might be right anyway, but I think this decision of yours sucks and is ultimately selling yourself out of a good future. And I’m not talking about just us. I’m talking about all the work you put into trying to resurrect the Empire and now just walking away from it all. I thought you were a man of greatness, but I see now that you are just a man…just like the rest.”
You try to tell Jennifer that you’ll escort her out of Rask, but she tells you she’ll be fine. Seeing that you aren’t going to take no for an answer she reluctantly agrees.
Your journey out of Rask is a quiet and uneventful one. If you weren’t already feeling the cold from the weather, you’d most certainly be feeling it from Jennifer who says nothing to you the whole time.
When you eventually get to the Flogger tribe borders, you part company with Jennifer and the rest. You tell your soldiers to let command know that you won’t be returning and not to bother to come find you.
You try to say goodbye to Jennifer one last time, but she’s already walking towards Quala with her crew. Having nothing else to do, you return to Everwatch to begin your new life.
The Eyes have a big ceremony for you and you’re appointed as a Sightmaster immediately due to your vast years of experience and magic. Kells catches you up on all the procedures and a little more history, but for the most part you’re still wondering if you have made the right decision.
After a month of slaying creatures and banishing wendigos you get in the swing of things and your thoughts about anything connected to Nalin start to lessen.
Within the year, you feel completely at home with only the occasional fleeting thoughts of concerns outside of Rask. Sometimes you half expect someone from Nalin to come, but nobody does. You imagine Quintus is glad to have you conveniently out of his life now (assuming he succeeded with his Empire idea without you) and Jennifer has gotten over you.
Just proves that you weren’t really missed or wanted after all and you did make the right decision. At least here you feel genuinely respected and wanted.
Years go by and you settle into your routine. It’s a very simple one and in time when Vision Lord Kells dies of natural causes, it’s very evident that you are the one to take up the mantle.
Years become decades and Rask continues to remain fairly isolated. You sometimes wonder if Quintus was ever successful and if he’s still emperor or if he failed and Nalin is still a republic. You sometimes also wonder what Jennifer is doing. One time you walked all the way to the Rask borders only to turn back, resisting the sudden urge to revisit that life.
This is your life now and you’re going to stick with this one.
You do begin to have some concerns about the potential future of the Eyes. You’re essentially an isolated “monk” order dedicated to wiping out dangerous monsters. Attrition through combat is not only taking its toll, but age is as well. A discussion about a potential remedy like say actively trying to go outside Rask to recruit new members is held, but ultimately nothing is done.
So ultimately you continue until eventually all that’s left of the order is a few old men and yourself, also of old age by that time.
You all go out one day and never come back.
