Eh, I've been dropped in worse. Battlefields are battlefields. At least the mud is honest.
[ He shrugs ]
Mm. Luthien's heir. That's part of it. She was half-maia, my great-grandmother - that's where most of the power comes from, although I can't acess most of it now. Can still heal, a bit, which is nice.
[ not bitter noooo... ]
But between her heroism, and the other side of the family.... well, between her deeds, and then what my father & mother did, Fate owes us, apparently. Owes us big time. So they let us choose, which side of the family we would cleave to. So we wouldn't be half-elven any more but one or the other.
[ He snorts ]
I'll take mortality any day, even with all the downsides, rather than existing forever until the world ends, watching it all go downhill. Fate. Bah. What did it ever gain us but my mother abandoning us for a cursed jewel and a father we can see but not speak to or touch? But humans... we get to leave. Luthien had the right idea.
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[ He shrugs ]
Mm. Luthien's heir. That's part of it. She was half-maia, my great-grandmother - that's where most of the power comes from, although I can't acess most of it now. Can still heal, a bit, which is nice.
[ not bitter noooo... ]
But between her heroism, and the other side of the family.... well, between her deeds, and then what my father & mother did, Fate owes us, apparently. Owes us big time. So they let us choose, which side of the family we would cleave to. So we wouldn't be half-elven any more but one or the other.
[ He snorts ]
I'll take mortality any day, even with all the downsides, rather than existing forever until the world ends, watching it all go downhill. Fate. Bah. What did it ever gain us but my mother abandoning us for a cursed jewel and a father we can see but not speak to or touch? But humans... we get to leave. Luthien had the right idea.