GLRP E&H Sarielle: The Restoration of Balance
Title: The Restoration of Balance
Author: Translation Anwar
I’ve been reading all my waking hours. I must find a way to restore Shabti. All I wanted was to balance the world... for the good of all...
Now instead people rally to causes that have no meaning and the death and destruction is unlike any I’ve seen before. From what I’ve read, this has happened before at least once. One relic that was a reagent seems to play a role in the restoration. There was a lantern of balance. It seems that when Shabti split, the lantern split also. There are lanterns of Reason and Emotion... these must be found. The text says that, when this happened before, the Lantern of Emotion was found in a dungeon upon an altar, while the Lantern of Reason was found on the surface, but also upon an altar.
When Shabti appeared for the few moments he was whole... He carried a shining staff unlike any I’ve ever laid eyes upon. This is mentioned in the ancient texts as well. The staff at that time split into three pieces that were found scattered across the world. Each was buried within the bowels of the earth. The texts finally go on to say that... The conduit and the one who summoned Shabi must be gathered with the relics and the two sides of Shabti. Only then can all be gathered upon a symbol of great magic. A ceremony of unification must be held, and this will restore the balance of the one.
Since Shabti was whole when I contacted him, I must conclude that the previous ceremony was successful. However, why Shabti could not remember this I do not know. I am not sure how old the texts are. Did Shabti forget, or did the ceremony corrupt his memory? I am also unable to find anything that happened after the unification. The books were too damaged to understand everything. I must also conclude that Shabti left these lands. How and for what reasons I do not know. But since I summoned him here, it is clear that he left at some point... I shall not write again until we have all the pieces for the ceremony.
Finally we have all the relics. I have my summoner and my conduit. The conduit is a bit less aware than he was when we summoned Shabti. The madness grows within him. My summoner is a common man... though balanced, he was easy to convince to help me. Ashabti has agreed to work with us to reform Shabti. His logic was that reason and emotion cannot exist without each other. Sashabti seems quite content to stay on his own, although we hear he seeks the pieces we have.
What exactly Sashabti hopes to accomplish, we do not know. It is interesting to note here that only the conduit or Ashabti can manipulate the pieces. I wonder if the same holds true for Sashabti - or if he would need the conduit as well.
Finally we have found a way to trick Sashabti into coming to us... The weakness of emotion is that there is no Reason to see things for what they are. We shall do the ceremony tomorrow. Hopefully the next time I write Shabti will be reunited...
