Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-26444332-20161224034213/@comment-25901581-20170105022805

Faenor of the Silver Laurel wrote: Shadowfyrelord wrote: "Well... about a week ago I was experiencing headaches, pain, and insomnia... it's gone now, and I feel much healthier.

But I couldn't link it to any illness. I'm a medical professional, and the symptoms baffled me. I remember I met quite a few people with the same symptoms, when I was working. My collegues all said it was cosmic dust, but I don't know if cosmic dust would really do anything like this."

'You're right, cosmic dust wouldn't do this,' Asariel replies. 'But the cause is something I'm not willing to explain just yet. Let me begin by explaining a few things, and I shall tell as we go on. Listen up, the rest of you,' he says to the others, 'Because I'm only going to say this once.'

'The story that metahumans have only been surfacing in Veil for the past few weeks is a lie. It's been happening for many years now: several thousand, to be precise. The cosmic dust of the Space Elevator was used as a convenient excuse to explain away the abilities, but do you really think that would be the case? In the beginning, there were nine of us. Saber and I are two of the originals: we're far older than we look. The individual known as "Wrath" is another. The first nine each had a power, and, depending on how you looked at it, a curse: we could not die. It was still possible to kill us, and it was still possible for us to catch some deadly disease: but if we did not, we endured.'

He sighs before continuing.

'Each of us took a name, and became the foundation of a legend. From Gilgamesh came the epic that bears his name, and from the one we have fought, Heracles, sprang a cult and myth that stands to this day. And that, I suppose, brings me to the foundation of your abilities: you have inherited the legend. Heroes never die, they are only reborn. Cú Chulainn and Stratigikí's Lancer bear the same abilities because Lancer has... continued the story, I suppose one might say.' Izaak looks even more confused.

"But what about the battle? We recently fought a giant man with red skin and super strength, and the Cu Chulainn person that we just encountered. What are they doing? And who's Stratigiki?"