Thread: Knight Shame: Yellow eyes and Ten Rings (Absinth/Lagertha)

Ren's Rings 1 Air, Gliding 2 ??? 3 ??? 4 ??? 5 ??? 6 ??? 7 ??? 8 ??? 9 ??? 10 ??? Ren was surprised when they walked past the courtyard, she had seen templars bring women they were courting there for frilly conversations, for their lovers and wives, she had watched them as a healer but now she knew better. Ren had always imagined Terra and herself being like that, but Terra was no longer Terra, and Rentia was no longer Rentia. She watched the cold stone turn under her feet, the light grey color turned deeper and darker, light red stones began and she looked up, seeing the garden in the distance to the right trees, plants, flowers, and a little patch -which looked small it may have been large- in the distance. My mother used to say it was a woman's job to build a garden and keep it alive for her men. Ren didn't seem too enthused by that idea, but it was interesting that he had admitted her enjoyed gardening. Why are you showing me this? You just met me. Ren was straight to the point, she felt slightly awkward at the idea. Boys didn't come up to Ren to talk, and if they did they treated her like she was below them. If you hold back no one ever learns their lesson. Kass told me that. I'm used to breaking my bones. Ren looked at him, blinking when he got on his knees in front of her, he was still much taller than her like this, but at least she could look him in the eye. What are you doing? Ren jumped slightly as he took one of her small feet, kneading it, though she realized he was trying to get her feet to circulate again, and she didn't resist. Ren understood now, his father must have been able to wear more then five then. I hear voices when I wear all ten, they aren't mine but it's hard to decipher which one is my thoughts and which one is the rings..it's not only that... Ren looked away at the garden and sighed, this was awkward having him knead her feet but he was being gentle and Ren had never felt kindness besides Kass. ..it's like it's someone else inside the rings and when all ten are on you can feel them, hear them, sense they are there with you. I know everyone says that the rings die with the users, but these rings..they come most alive when all ten are together, like they are remembering things they've been through and seen. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm making it up or not..so I can see where people go crazy for having so many on for too long..I even prefer to only wear all ten rings when I have to. Ren knew all too well she wouldn't have a choice but to wear then all the time when she graduated from here and became a Templar, there was no if she did, she knew she would. Do you know why they tell you to never put on the ring's of the dead? Why they say to break them or bury them with their bodies? Kass told me the story when I first got all ten rings, but he didn't look happy or surprised he looked scared. Ren allowed him to take her other foot, she didn't fight with the boy, he wasn't trying to hurt her at all. He told me of a man that had lost all his comrades in battle, and as remembrance he took a ring from each of the five that had died, their best abilities that he knew. Instead of putting them in a pouch and carrying with him, he decided he would wear them on his hand, one on each finger, and the same finger his deceased comrades had used. He started hearing voices...but it wasn't the rings that were talking, he swear he could hear his dead comrades speaking to him, thinking as though they were him and he started seeing things. At first the man thought they were images from a past life, but he realized it was memories from one of his comrades that had died. There was other things he had seen from their lives, heard, things that drove the man mad, but the worst part was..no matter how many times the healers begged him to take off the rings he simply couldn't, and he lost himself in their rings. He stopped referring to himself as I, as me, and started to say things like we, and us, when he was only speaking. Ren looked at Daniel but her face was saddened. I heard that man was your father. A Carver had gone mad, so mad he ran off a cliff to be with the dead. Ren wasn't sure how Daniel would react, perhaps the boy would be angered by the knowledge, perhaps he would hurt Ren, but she didn't seem scared and she didn't move from standing in front of him. I've heard other stories, the originally Templars use to use rings from the dead, passing down the same abilities from generation to generation before they started crafting new rings for the new Templars. They are pretty much the same, voices, feeling like they are someone else, seeing things, experiencing thing, and ultimately most of them ended themselves... Ren looked down pulling her feet away. Thank you.. She smiled softly. ..you are only suppose to have five because the rings don't talk when you have five, but when you have more..you learn the truths of the world..and somethings you don't want to know..that's why they leave them out of books you know. Ren felt awkward, why she blurted such things she wasn't sure why, then again the boy had seemed honest about knowing about his father, at least she had told him what she could. There's more.. Ren said finally after he talked about tag and explained it. ..but even I don't want to talk about the consequences of wearing the rings. Ren knew all too well the way things would go or could go by wearing more than five, things most boys his age probably weren't told. They were only told the easier parts to imagine, fast aging, going mad, losing themselves in the power of the rings, but there was so much more to that. Don't follow in your father's footsteps. Your father may have been brave, but it isn't wise to use the rings of the deceased. It's not wise to use more than five either. Ren moved slightly away from him as she smiled lightly. Sounds interesting, but I'm not much for games. I'm hear to learn to fight, not how to win at a game.