Gentiana | Open
Without the Oracle, without the King, without the Accursed, and without her beloved Ifrit, she is left to wonder what’s next for her. Fully shedding her role as Shiva, adopting the guise of Gentian entirely, she is stepping back into the world with her head held high and a sense of hope in her heart. Despite the suffering that was caused to bring them to this point, she knows the new world forming will be one full of light and she wants to be a part of it. A true member this time, as one of the people. But what will that mean for her?
Returning to Eos despite everything that had happened was hard for her, she’d always held a deeper love for the people of this world than the other Gods had. Watching their world crumble around them had been almost as devastating in its own way. Seeing their pain, their constant struggle to even simply survive. It had been enough to bring her to tears time and time again. But with the rise of the sun came a sense of peace.
They were being given another chance, a chance to move on without the tampering of the Gods in their lives. This was their time to build a world for themselves, the way they wanted it to be. The way they needed it to be. And she would be there to watch every step of the way, silently cheering on the people she loved so dearly.
But it’s hard to break old habits. Will she be able to stay out of it enough to simply watch? Or will she cave into the need to help and only hinder their progress?
Will she be able to remain the woman, or will she be unable to find the Goddess inside of her? Will Shiva rise again or will she forever fade into the icy mountains, leaving only the strange woman that others vaguely remember seeing in the lives of the people who saved them?