Split by FateUpdated at Apr 16, 2022, 22:00
ROWENA:
After the magic I didn't know I had comes out in self-defense and destroys the only thing keeping me here - my shackles - I make a run for it. Desperate to escape the life of a slave before I'm punished for 'attacking a customer'. Unaware that my magic was felt by powerful casters across the realm when it burst out of me. Now I meet a handsome stranger who helps me leave the desolate desert that's been my home for as long as I can remember, but when I'm taken by robed figures that apparently belong to the Silver Spirit Coven and am told how much of a monster he is, being the second in command of the Eternal Aether Coven, I can't help but feel split. The things I've heard they do, the things I've heard he's done, it makes me sick. But I can't see the man that was so kind to me doing those things...
And now that Silver Spirit has me, am I going to be brought into this war? I don't want to join Eternal Aether, but I don't necessarily want to join Silver Spirit either. I want to find my parents and try to have a normal life...
SAUL:
Life has been meaningless for so many years. Every day is the same - wake up, work out, train with my weapons, follow orders, go to sleep, repeat. I turned my emotions off when I first joined Eternal Aether ten years ago, I completely changed who I was. Shedding the skin of the kid I was supposed to be and the man I was supposed to become and choosing for myself what I wanted to do. Revenge was my main goal back then, revenge and power. It's the only thing that's mattered for ten years. I worked hard to become the coven head's protégé, the second in command. I've done whatever was asked of me, whatever had to be done. With no question, no thought, no remorse. I put up a wall between me and my emotions, blocking out the weaknesses that would affect my ability to do what it takes.
Until I meet her.
I felt her magic ripple through the realm, we all did. My master wanted me to find her and bring her back with me. I almost did. Until those hypocritical, selfish Silver Spirits took her from me.
But I wasn't just angry that I failed my master, her being taken from me made me... feel something. Something I hadn't felt in so long I didn't even know what it was at first.
Lonely.
I felt lonely without her with me. That's crazy. I've never cared about having a friend or anything before. Truthfully, I can't stand other people. But as soon as she was gone I made a vow to myself to get her back, no matter what. Not just for my master, but... for me. Even though I'd never admit that, even to her.
She belongs here anyway, those snakes will only use her for her power and corrupt her into thinking like them. At least if she's with me I can make sure no one uses her, I can protect her, even from my master if I need to.
But how am I going to get her back?