What do you

do after that? We find Fenwyn perched like a gargoyle atop of one of the turrets of Castle Brimweald.

There's a light sheet of drizzle coming down, steady wind, and he is crouched.

He has his hand out to the side, arm outstretched, hand open, waiting for something.

He feels around for something that's on the stone next to him.

And we see it's a flat piece of flint.

And he nudges it slightly, moving its position.

And for a session that was mostly a combat, there was so much character development and emotion going on, it was great.

Thank you.

The old fire.

Narrate a flashback to the moment you realized that you had fallen in love with the person you saved.

What small, quiet gesture revealed what your discipline had tried to hide? Fenwyn and Rhea sit wordlessly in the glade.

They are both exhausted.

They are both Spattered with blood, mud and grime.

This life, if you can call it that, is hard.

Nice one, yeah, thanks.

And what went up begins to climb down.

Alish had been insulted that she had been asked to go and stay in the chambers beneath castle bregan with the younger ones she can fight and she'd proved that over and over but she had been told no if it came to that it would be too late but here she is groping around in the dark trying to find the sword that the guard watching the door had just dropped as he'd been dragged away.

There was no one else to protect them now.

And she could still hear her brother screaming from up on the parapets.

She had to get to him.

She picks up the sword.

It's a rusted, blunted blade.

So Matt, go ahead and do yours.

The Old Fire

Narrate a flashback to your time on the run with the person you saved.

What skills kept you both alive and what did you learn about each other while slipping from shadow to shadow? Her name is Ria.

Beyond that, Fenwyn didn't know a great deal about her.

The only thing that was for sure, abundantly clear, was that they needed each other to keep going.

They needed each other to stay alive.

She is the picture of serenity, poise and stillness.

And I think that just takes us to stars and wishes.

Maybe it's something he found in the Morning Tower, who knows? But this scroll contains part of a story referencing something called the seeds of danu d-a-n-u what do you do not that you can tell it might be something for the others to figure out since you can't presumably can't read right now

femwin is on his knees the fight with mortis has shook him he's killed before even though it's a dirty business that is never near the front of the line of things he wants to have to do but he will but it's never been like that it wasn't surgical it was messy it was barbarous work and he's feeling every kind of like synapse firing in his body, telling him that he is physically responded in a way that he has not been trained for.

And he is on his knees and he is flanked by two bodies, both of his making.

He has blood streaming out of his wrist from the wound, and Mortis gave him his, trying to stem the flow, scraps from his cloak.

And he says to Periwinkle, will you hear my confession? And there's obviously no response.

He says, I have brought the world low.

I'm a coward.

Please describe how you resist and then overcome the queen.

How does the Dimning claim him, and what becomes of his silver tower when his last spell falters?

Elgareth.

had only managed to stall for a matter of seconds.

Everything that was leading up to this moment, this wall of sound that approached through the valley, the thousands of voices crying out in anguish, they were just the deep breath before the plunge.

And now there is the lack, the absence of life, of sound.

And Elgareth finds himself floating in this void, this abyss.

And he sees and feels the bones in his arms bend back and snap.

I'm

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The Old Fire.

Narrate a flashback to when you saved someone from the Dimnings' first advance.

Who were they and what split-second choice did you make that pulled them back from the brink? It is the latter stages of one of Grand Vizier Utsideros' most debauched parties.

Fenwyn is off to the side.

The tropical heat is making him deeply uncomfortable, especially in the royal regalia where we see him wearing in the heavy fake beard that is disguising him for this mission.

He is watching the festivities wind towards the danced.

So love it, stuff about that.

That'll do.

Um, [laughs] I'll, uh, echo all those things, uh, also.

There's something that like me and Jason have talked about on the, the Lands Remaining pod, and it was like when we first started talking about what this game is, and specifically what the Embers were, I said my worry is I'm, I sh- I struggle to see how we're gonna connect, connect with the humanity of essentially demi-gods, right? And, you know, I'm so pleased to be proven not wrong, 'cause I, I, I, like I didn't, I just couldn't see how it would work.

But it's, y- you all make it look so effortless, and it's, it's kind of easier for me 'cause I'm, I'm just a guy, right? But like ev- everyone else, like, yeah, the, the, the, the depth that you're giving and like y- you never just feel like these immortals striding through this land, you know, ready to take on these challenges.

Um, I feel for all of you, and that's really testament to the performance and the, the space that the game gives you.

This is gonna be like weird 'cause this is gonna come out months after this happened, but like very recently there's been a lot of conversations in the Gauntlet Discord about answering a question and accepting a miss on answer a question, and, um, my really only input into that kind of debate is I just fucking love answering a question.

[laughs] I, I just love that mechanic, and like, uh, I really love how it was like, well, I've got a theory.

Yeah

The mouse in the tower whose walls recall wind.

You have a near superhuman dexterity and climbing ability.

When you take this move, narrate a flashback showing a montage of your crystal door training.

What impossible heights did you learn to scale, and what precarious paths did you manage to navigate? Fenwyn's face as it always is, even as a younger man, a picture of stillness and calm.

There is a light breeze that moves his tousled hair slightly, and the outline of his figure is illuminated perfectly in the moonlight.

He's probably 150 meters from the ground right now, balancing precariously on a rope between two spindly stone towers.

There are crowds of initiates at the window of either tower where the rope links between them, making bets, taking bets, turning over sand timers.

Fen