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" The Lady of Many Faces have one thousand faces, mortal, tough the one most known to the inhabitants of the Nexus is the face of pain... "
The Ancient
"As I told you mortal, I may be of same influence for your quest. Aid you with nothing more than words is what I can do, but its always the sufficient, if you understand first that nothing occurs inside the eternal flow of time without a reason tied to it... Even where the chaos rules, there is a reason behind..."
"Reason? Wh... What kind of reason?"
"Powers, gods, immortals... Your folk used to give these kind of silly names for the Reason, young child." :: replies Jyaayj while the Ancient remains mute ::
"Holy! I... I`m sorry, but I don`t used to believe on such high beings... I mean, but now, from what I have seen here... And this Lady..."
"Wise you were in not believing in mere cantrips child. There are beings with power, beings without, but yet we all are the same... Even the Ancient belongs to the same Reason of you, my dear." :: the bald men points to Arbhatis, and he feels a very strange, but comfortable energy surrounding his body ::
"That energy... Its my spirit isn`t it?"
"You call it spirit child, and I say that its much, much more than that..." :: and the Ancient finally interrupts the glowing man :: "Its part of the Reason, mortal."
"I understand. I need to know what the Reason is first. Will you tell me?"
"The Reason can`t be explained, only felt. The Reason is everything, and directs everything. The Reason have many faces... Perhaps because of it, mortal, we call it by a very peculiar name here on the Nexus: The Lady of Many Faces." :: after hearing that, Arbhatis thought of sawing the Ancient face turn into some other strange faces in the blink of an eye, but ignored ::
"Its this force we just saw... Which face was that?"
"The Lady of Many Faces have one thousand faces, mortal, tough the one most known to the inhabitants of the Nexus is the face of pain..."
"I don`t understand... Isn`t this most higher power good? How could it cause pain?"
"The Reason don`t interferes, mortal. The Reason just is, and perhaps that is all we should ever know... But each of us believe on it by our own way. Due to the kind of place that the Nexus is, the beings tend to believe that one Lady of Pain is necessary to maintain their order..."
"So, the Reason always brings the order that the people need?"
:: smiles :: "No, my dear, the Reason don`t bring what we need, because it could not, as it actually brings everything that is indeed. Law and Chaos. Life and Death. Love and Pain... The Reason is, and by just being, its above anything you could ever think of it... But some of us, particularly those who are full of wisdom, may have a clue about what may be the Reason."
"Tell me great Ancient, what it may be?" :: sensibilized ::
"During the eternal existence that I passed here and now, mortal, I could perceive that the Lady of Many Faces indeed plays many lives, commanding the existence of specific beings into one thousand different places and one thousand different times. Kind like it was a game that it likes to play from time to time, watching the lives of specific beings and actually enjoying it..."
"Enjoying it? How could such a power be amused by our inferior lives?" :: now confused ::
"Indeed mortal, it even seen to prefer the most inferior beings... Mortals from the Prime. It plays with them, commanding the reality and designing quests to each one of them. Before you do ask, apparently those quests serve to teach something to these special beings. And by learning so much with this kind of aid, these beings tend to archive higher ranks on the history of their worlds... Some are even found on the Nexus, tough that is really rare..."
"So... So this beings have to learn from their quests... But, do they learn? Do they die like the rest of us?"
"Many of them die, and thats what is strange... Even when they die and do not easily resurrect after, their spirits are most likely to be saved and transported to other beings therefore. By not even passing by the Nexus after their deaths, these beings plays the lives of many other beings, tough very few of them will ever discover that."
"It makes an incredible sense to me... It explains why some adventures that I knew were always somehow "favored" and did escaped from many threats that were not supposed to escape. So the Reason actually play games with some of us... But then, what we are supposed to learn from it?"
"Use your brain child... If somehow some of you mortals may entertain the Lady, why do you believe that you are doomed to end your existences?"
"Of course! Holy, I didn`t thought on that aspect... If the Reason is amused by our inferior lives, then we should not loose our hope. We should just... play its game?"
"Indeed my dear. Right now you discovered what faith is... But I still must know who are those special beings on your world... They are often called adventurers, and many times, heroes."
