[Zeloph motions a little helplessly.] we can only work with what we have been given, and Cyntia and her team have been very good at thwarting our attempts.
[He straightens however, taking on a more serious air.]
We know it intimately as these marks we bear. [He motions to the blue-violet markings on his arms briefly.] The "energy crisis" as our most benevolent city leaders put it and the miasma are one in the same. The miasma is the effect, and the Unleashing of it and its source the cause.
One hundred years ago, I was the same as my sister. Young protectors of the people, warriors in our own right and religious figureheads. However not all recognized the balance between physical and ethereal, and the little experiment to harness the "power of gods" went awry in the worst scenario, nearly killing Ahilani in the process. Before you ask, Ahilani is the Goddess of Fire and Energy, and her weakening caused the miasma to leak from the other Plane to this one.
In order to be sure that it did not spread further, I and others were "gifted" with a power to absorb and channel the miasma itself. Those who survived and our sympathizers joined together to form our organization, though this only angered a people terrified of the "Carriers" that we used a term from the holy scriptures as our group's name.
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[He straightens however, taking on a more serious air.]
We know it intimately as these marks we bear. [He motions to the blue-violet markings on his arms briefly.] The "energy crisis" as our most benevolent city leaders put it and the miasma are one in the same. The miasma is the effect, and the Unleashing of it and its source the cause.
One hundred years ago, I was the same as my sister. Young protectors of the people, warriors in our own right and religious figureheads. However not all recognized the balance between physical and ethereal, and the little experiment to harness the "power of gods" went awry in the worst scenario, nearly killing Ahilani in the process. Before you ask, Ahilani is the Goddess of Fire and Energy, and her weakening caused the miasma to leak from the other Plane to this one.
In order to be sure that it did not spread further, I and others were "gifted" with a power to absorb and channel the miasma itself. Those who survived and our sympathizers joined together to form our organization, though this only angered a people terrified of the "Carriers" that we used a term from the holy scriptures as our group's name.