Face the ancient darkness deep,
Void of darkness devoid of light,
Come the dawn it crawls and creeps,
The shadows of day born from night,
Of blackened birth the shadow spawn,
from mother darkness and father dawn.

The grip loosened as the bladesinger's eye paralyzed the tentacular rival. Koan had felled the remaining templar, an ingenious use of spellcraft as she tempted and goaded her prey to strike her frozen blue body. And more so her rapier's attack which crackled of booming energy against the gripped squid, was she not a wonderful sadist? Octopii appeared to attack their distant brethren, all party members engaged against the colossal beast throwing everything they had to survive, despite the vantage of numbers now with the templars down. But survive they did, the limp noodle wrapt around Noriam's struggles the sign of the monstrosity's demise. Releasing him from his struggles, as the curious blonde handed him a strange potion from beneath her cloak. It was Jill who shone with the light that pierced the kraken's evil eye with her blade. Crying blood and ink as the cephalopod drowned in its death allowing the grappled warlock to remove the tentacle grapple and glide swimmingly towards the gathering group back into the looted treasure room. Now of all times perhaps it would be fitting to reveal his name to the group, as Jacob rechristened into Israel would too 'Sauron' be reintroduced as Noriam? The burden of thoughts, they had all known him by the former name...

A voice returning. A sweet music in the mind of a lost child. A calling, beckoning through the experience of being pulled by the darkness. Perhaps Jill's words rang truer still, something of an effect upon the harmony of tainted soul. There was still light, a divine spark held within, clinging on in the bastion as a single flame upon twined wick. This battle only made it grow, the tendrils making the fight more real, how he sought to the grasp the darkness had around him. The perfect allegory to tease out the rekindling of the light. There Noriam turned within, listening to the voice of Jill in his mind, [i]I see the light is still inside you. Grasp it, and break free![/i] No not break free, but Shine. Shine on release the inferno of holy light, return as Noriam and cease the game of shadows. But the shadows were born from darkness and light, the shadow exists as the light strikes as the darkness to balance out the radiance. 

"I believe this is yours." A potion returned to its original owner. No longer slow of tongue it seemed, Jill's restorative magic having cooled his burning tongue. "While I appreciate the gesture... Taking drinks from nameless strangers you have only met is a good way to find yourself... Poisoned or worse..." It was true, a tactic employed by many in the professional circle. The scrapes and cut beneath his shadow armor would heal, Jill's spells already having done much of the work, but a brief respite should heal most of the injuries. Then again most of this was from Koan's kiss. Of which Noriam minded not another in the next hour, as Jill identified the tiger's necklace with her rites. She was a mystery, younger and far more chipper than the gloomy aasimar, but perhaps just as volatile in their vocations, for did Noriam not revel in the moment of agony minutes ago like a madman? And now he seemed far more relaxed as a new brightness danced in his watching eyes even as he made his way to Koan's side. Jill's healing light seemed to cling on and resonate within him, infectiously tainting his blackened soul with the blessings of the heavens. 


"Koan, are you alright my sweet ebon fury?" A charming smile at the blue enigma serenading her in a lover's endearment. What would she do if she knew of his deception? Would she love Sauron? Or Noriam? was it love even? Or more so a dark lust that nibbled at the desires? Did not Jill banish Koan's darkness from his heart?

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Noriam Lvl up: 1 level of Sorcerer, Divine Soul added (See Char Sheet Updates)
[b]Short rest[/b]
Spent Hitdice = 4d8 + 1d6 + 2*5 = (4+6+6+4)+(4)+2*5 = 34 hp
Spell Slots Added: 2x lvl 5 Warlock Pact Magic
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