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Bronach ([personal profile] earthbones) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2017-11-22 11:28 pm (UTC)

Old Gods? I don't-- no. What's that? It's--

[Again there's a noise in the back of her throat; how does she explain any of this? This isn't her thing, she's not some priest and faith is lodged in her deep enough to never pry loose but always to rub, to chafe, to burn at parts of her that should never see the light.]

Like I said. Aedra, Daedra. Then there's the Divines and we might worship some under different names. It's how it is. Mine are Auri-El that Men call Akatosh the Dragon of Time, Y'ffre spirit of the now, Arkay of the cycle of birth and death, Lorkhan trickster who fixed death in us; Y'ffre made himself the first Ehlnofey. What's older than the Earth Bones?

[Fervour creeps in. Sweat under her armour now. The night the shamans took so many to drive the people out, when her father forbid it and her belly coils with it, with the shame of the Falmer, with what they were, what they are in that dark alone. That her friends, her family, they were twisted when she was pressed out, away-- But this was about the falmer so she shrinks back again.] Corruption. Even their bodies are poison.

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