unsheathedfromreality: (reflect on a thousand lifetimes)
Illarion Albireo ([personal profile] unsheathedfromreality) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-03-13 08:45 am (UTC)

TARGET | Prince of Sacrifices (Velimir Praesaepe) - 1A

Note location: In Gaze and the Archives; in Willful Machine; recently used altars to Remina and Mariana
Number available: Lots
Conditions to receive from Iskierka: Most likely to award to Arcane Scholars

I do not know what to say of the Prince of Sacrifices that isn't tainted by bias unbecoming in a Warlord. It was tainted by bias from the beginning; we all thought he was Sacrifice Reborn.

His father was the world to us. He could have been that world again, if he'd seen us as people and not a project. Not a fascinating mistake. Not as Evdokim's Folly, to be fixed. For all his centuries his hesitation made him vulnerable as a child and Biding exploited that. We courted that hesitation. We have ourselves to blame. I saw it happening and could do nothing, by then; I was his champion and he

was he jealous of me? I never knew,

sought other counsel. I considered seduction but he had eyes for only one man. And--I'll begrudge him--Biding had eyes for him. Even if he was enough of a narcissistic self-aggrandizing monster to send his whole Court to their deaths and pretend it was an injury done to him, he did--does--seem to feel something for his doxy his lover.

Now they're a gut-fused monster enthroned in a pile of corpses. May it bring them joy because nothing appears able to kill them. Whether or not one of them would wish it--Sacrifices' Prince-gift might have grown malignant and out of his control.

Biding always was good at getting him to do what he wanted.

He only really saw you as a tool, Velimir. Your father would have taught you better. He did me.

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