[@shylarah] Cool! We'll see what happens with the Lady's Anger and Ziotea. They'll definitely be an important-ish part of the story so it'll be interesting to see how it all comes together.

Essa wouldn't answer anything concerning Omestris or how it was like before its fall, since such knowledge is sacred and has been kept secret for generations by a minuscule number of Omestrian elders. Essa definitely wouldn't be comfortable with letting Ziotea or Oren in on any of this.

 When it comes to why the ruins are worth keeping, she'd reply by saying that the ruins in fact, aren't worth keeping. She chooses to live there because she can't stand Magnagrad, and the ruins do hold a certain sense of nostalgia for her. However, Essa also says that this place was never a paradise, and had its own problems, but she chooses to remember it as her home. She wouldn't go any deeper than that.

 As for the questions about her career as an inquisitor, Essa laughs, and tells Ziotea that she served for a very long time, but isn't remembered by most of the empire for certain reasons. She then tells her that if she wishes to know more, she should read the records on Warband Ifrit in the archives. Just don't believe [i]everything[/i] you read, she'd add.

[@OppositionJ] Glad to have you back! Love your new avatar btw.