Brennan: Tyranny. You are a demon of suffering, crafted by the Shadow of Suffering, Ksha'aravi. There is no greater suffering than losing what Kattigan has lost. And Kattigan, you see that reflected in Tyranny’s eyes. You understand, on a Nat 20 Insight, Tyranny’s perspective that she is fundamentally warped. That she’s an archetype and not a person, as she once said to you. You made the knife in her hand, this knife that has just cleaved through your bonds, as she opened your shackles. You look at her and know that she is absolutely right that she is a demon. She is the demonest demon who ever demoned. There is nothing wrong with her. And that knife you made for her … something within her understands your pain. There is something in her, older than her body, older than her name, older than this form that she has been given, that is here in this world because she knows what is rending you apart inside. And she is here to protect you. She is here to save that which can be saved, and if it cannot be saved, she is here to punish those that destroy it.
--- Episode 30: Here in the Dark
Just. Mulling over this a bit. Chewing on this.
“You are a demon of suffering, crafted by the Shadow of Suffering, Ksha'aravi.”
“You look at her and know that she is absolutely right that she is a demon. She is the demonest demon who ever demoned. There is nothing wrong with her.”
“Something within her understands your pain. There is something in her, older than her body, older than her name, older than this form that she has been given, that is here in this world because she knows what is rending you apart inside.”
Tyranny was crafted as a demon of suffering by Ksha’aravi. But that doesn’t necessarily mean to cause suffering. It may mean to understand it. Something within her, older than her name, older than the form she has been given, was made to understand pain. And then …
“And she is here to protect you. She is here to save that which can be saved, and if it cannot be saved, she is here to punish those that destroy it.”
She was made to understand pain, and then … avenge it? But not only that. Save what can be saved, and then only if it cannot be saved, punish those who destroyed it. Now, some of that might be Tyranny herself, her choices, picked up by Kattigan’s insight, not necessarily her created nature. But even if that’s the case, Ksha’aravi still apparently likes her. He likes her choices. And she’s still a demon. The demonest demon who ever demoned. Her choices are not anathema to her nature.
And I’m just looking at Ksha’aravi’s epithet. The ‘Shadow of Suffering’.
There’s been a lot of talk of shadows lately. But the thing about them is, shadows of something are not the cause of that something, they are cast by it. They follow after. The shadow of suffering is not suffering’s cause, it’s its aftermath.
Ksha’aravi is a demon prince where once there was a demon queen. A demon queen who married the god of suffering. Azgra. Ksha’aravi is ‘one of those who remained’. The shadow of suffering. Suffering’s aftermath.
And the child he crafted was created knowing pain, on a level older than her name and her form, and is here to protect those who have suffered it, and punish those who cause it.
I’m not entirely sure what that says, given other evidence of those who work for/with Ksha’aravi, and their less than positive effects on the world, but …
Yeah. That was definitely an interesting Insight roll, for sure.
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