An encounter with Owain Surrey, very early in the morning on February 1st, 2009, at the Counselor's Guild in Trammel's Britain...
While returning to the inn in Britain to retire for the evening, I heard familiar voices coming out of the Counselor's Guild. Looking through the window...
You see: Lord Owain Surrey
You see: Lord Vallend
Opening door... (I enter the building.)
Vallend: Owain we have a man stuck
Lord Owain Surrey: Stuck?
Vallend: He is scared to leave the wedding area.
Lord Owain Surrey: Ah, and why would he be frightened? *shrug*
Vallend: He is no mage. and the dungeons scare him
Lord Owain Surrey: Perhaps he should overcome his fear! Does he need help fighting his way out?
Solomon Wright: Teleport scrolls will help. He can use that magic to transport himself down.
Vallend: I agree but his mood is foul now
Lord Owain Surrey: I would help him slay the beasts, but I will not hold his hand as we ascend the mountain..or descend, depending where he wants to go!
Vallend: I tried to get him to follow me but he turned around and ran back
Lord Owain Surrey: *sighs*
Solomon Wright: There's no need for violence. A third-circle scroll will solve this dilemma. Let him sit within the temple and contemplate his fear until he is ready to overcome it. I would be happy to purchase the scroll on his behalf.
Lord Owain Surrey: Other matters are more pressing, but aye I can do that at least *waves hands over the area in front of him* *produces a teleport scroll* Bring that to him, and if that does not suffice, then he is damned to live out his life there..
Vallend: I will take that to him. Thank yee
It is here that Vallend departs.
Solomon Wright: That is quite the magic, Owain. Conjuring items from the aether.
Lord Owain Surrey: Ah, the same a scribe would do it, in a sense.
Solomon Wright: A great power that must be wielded with great responsibility, I am sure.
Lord Owain Surrey: and even greater judgement
Solomon Wright: Speaking of which...
Lord Owain Surrey: hmm?
Solomon Wright: Have you heard of Emissary Annendora's departure?
Lord Owain Surrey: indeed
Solomon Wright: She announced it to us this evening, after the ceremony.
Lord Owain Surrey: By no choice of her own, I assure you. She will traverse to another shard, that do not have sufficient able bodies to protect against what Casca or others have planned
Solomon Wright: Aye, it sounds as if the Robed Ones had other plans for her...
Here we discuss plans regarding Annendora's departure. For more information, join the Sosarian Communication Network by contacting myself, Solomon Wright, at: 441758722
As the conversation concluded, a citizen known as Socress entered the Counselor's Guild...
Lord Owain Surrey: Hail, Socress
Socress: Hello.
Lord Owain Surrey: There will be one to follow in [Annendora's] footsteps and he is quite noble as well. Cerrneous is his name, I believe
Solomon Wright: We look forward to welcoming him.
Lord Owain Surrey: Perhaps he can introduce himself at a wedding in the near future. The next is an orc wedding. Quite intriguing..
Socress: *YAY*
Lord Owain Surrey: Hopefully Kasaven is back to perform it! I am no priest or monk
Solomon Wright: When is that scheduled for, my friend?
Lord Owain Surrey: hmm let me check
A flash of lightning, and Owain is gone for a brief moment before reappearing in the same way he left...
Lord Owain Surrey: February 18th, At 7 PM at an Orc Fort of their choosing
Socress: What the hell (Socress is obviously confused about how Owain just teleported in that manner.)
Lord Owain Surrey: *eyes Socress*
Socress: Lol
Solomon Wright: Owain is ordained by the Robed as an Emissary. His powers supercede those of many citizens. He once served as augur to Lord British. But his visions are clouded by loss and the influence of the Shadowlords.
Lord Owain Surrey: Ah I am no Emissary. I am titleless, now adays. *sighs*
Socress: Sorry, My eyes are dazzled
Lord Owain Surrey: As they should be, I wish Kasaven were here to show you his static electricity shoes..That would prove quite blinding!
It is here Socress discusses a special box he owns with Owain. When there is a lull in the conversation, I decide to breach a difficult subject...
Solomon Wright: One last question, and then I will be off...
Lord Owain Surrey: Aye ?
Solomon Wright: I understand you have suffered a great tragedy. Kasaven told us of the loss of your family, and I know it must be very difficult to speak of it.
Lord Owain Surrey: *looks to ground and back at Solomon*
Solomon Wright: I, too, have lost many close to me, so I have empathy for what has occurred in your life.
Lord Owain Surrey: A piece of my heart shall always be torn, yet I've moved on, as much as it possible
Solomon Wright: *nods*
Lord Owain Surrey: Though I still dream of the last day I saw them..
Solomon Wright: My question is...where have your wife and child been buried, so that we might pay our respects?
Lord Owain Surrey: Burned, as were the others who were beheaded in Blackthorne's time, put upon the pyre...I know not even where there ashes blew in the wind. So I pay my respect every time I feel the wind blow..
Solomon Wright: Was the event in Nujel'm, at the square?
Lord Owain Surrey: You would have to ask Kasaven, he witnessed it.
Solomon Wright: *nods* I will do so.
Lord Owain Surrey: I bid him not to go into detail. So I have never asked, and if I am in his presence, I hope you not to ask, either, until I take leave
Solomon Wright: A fair request, my friend. And one I will honor. We wish you to have peace. For only through acceptance may the desire for vengeance that seems to overtake you at times be conquered.
Lord Owain Surrey: humph, I do as my is needed for Britannia
Solomon Wright: If there is anything I can do...
Lord Owain Surrey: hmm, I think not, though I appreciate the request
Solomon Wright: I will leave you with this. Sometimes, If you want to fix this... *gestures around* ...you must fix yourself first.
Lord Owain Surrey: Yet I am not broken. Do you, too, not feel vengeance in your heart? For those who corrupted the land and sought to enslave its people?
Solomon Wright: I did, but I have overcome it. Vengeance is not virtuous, my friend. You know this. You are wise.
Lord Owain Surrey: I am wise, yet there are times my heart guides me
Solomon Wright: You are overcome with grief, and lie under the influence of the Shadowlords. We must tend to your heart and your soul.
Lord Owain Surrey: you know of a way to cure my ails? To bring truth back to my dreams?
Solomon Wright: Confronting mortality and loss is different for everyone. It is a path you must walk yourself. But the community is here, as support. You can reach to us, if you need it.
Lord Owain Surrey: Aye, I shall require all of your assistance, in more ways then one
Solomon Wright: You cannot justify vengeance, no matter how much it consumes you. It will not bring your wife and child back.
Lord Owain Surrey: Yet it will bring safety back to the Kingdom
Solomon Wright: That is a different motivation, is it not?
Lord Owain Surrey: Yet they cooincide
Solomon Wright: No. The intention is quite different. And Virtue begins with your intention. If you cloud your action with vengeance, it will subvert the noble ends you seek.
Lord Owain Surrey: Aye, I appreciate your advice, and I will muse upon it
Solomon Wright: Think on what I have said. It is important that your visions are pure, so that you may guide us without doubt as an obstacle, and falsehood as a possibility.
Lord Owain Surrey: If it is my will that could repair that, it would be done.
Solomon Wright: Let us will it to be so.
Lord Owain Surrey: Good night, till we meet again
Solomon Wright: Good night to you, Owain.
As I exit, Vallend enters with tale that the scared citizen at the site of the wedding has, in fact, safely made it down the mountain again.
