Session 9 - Impression of the Eternity Fragment

Traveling to Tarentum (Town of Sienna) 
* Log 6 
* Feels like Maryn has changed in some way
** She holds a satroleye, which starts to feel lighter in her hand, and it then starts blinking. Disappearing and reappearing maybe a hundred times a second. She feels it moving, almost rotating, before it suddenly slows down - as it now appears to be an extremely thin white string that spin rapidly when destabilized, but has now been stabilized by the Door of Harmony. 
* Mar goes into her "dark room"
* Voladore feels "different"
Traveling to Tarentum (Passing through a field in the early morning)
* You see a man with a familiar black blindfold and white hair get up from the ground, clutching something in his hand, which falls as he walks away into a forest beside the field
* It's a letter
* As you continue on down the road, now squeezing between two dense parts of a forest, you hear a knock on the door of the cart
* Q is on the other side
* He says, "I don't remember... who are you?" > Some of you draw your weapons; he then waits a few seconds and then says "Oh..." before turning to Voladore and saying, "He's watching you now. He's always watching..."
** What appears to be some sort of forcefield comes out from where he's standing, knocking you back, and when you look again, he's gone
** Book then explains why it was made:
*** "I couldn't tell you. I'm sorry, Maryn. He told me he could cure you. That no matter how sick you were, he would be able to help you. It was so long ago that I've almost forgotten, but he had me make that doll - to seal away a being that even he couldn't defeat by himself. Then he had me make this book - an unimaginable mass of knowledge. It was almost too much for me, but then... he had me make something else. Something horrible, that has long since been forgotten to me. My body couldn't handle the strain. My soul was weakened, nearly destroyed; shattered into countless shards. I imbued what was left of it into this book, in hopes that I could do something else to save you, anything... As my body died, my power was transferred to you, and in that moment, you willed yourself away - back home, to safety. And he took me with him, for decades. To learn what he could not.
*** Only a fraction of my former power remained, dulled and weakened. I couldn't detect you, but I felt the presence of a highly attuned being somewhere. I used what was left of my power to jump to it. But what I saw... was someone I didn't recognize. Someone from another world, from another time. A different Sylph. My knowledge guided them, and it took years before I could jump again. And then, another Sylph. Not you. Another one, and another, and another... and then, finally, I fell into your hands a few days ago. I couldn't tell you the truth. I had nearly forgotten who I was, what I was fighting for. My identity is gone. All that remains is my existence as a beacon to guide the most attuned beings in the universe.”
Tarentum
* A row of houses are toppled over from a earthquake, covered in dirt and broken wood
* Meet Chet (he was definitely scammed to come here)
** Says something about his memories
** "I told you what happened to me in that mountain - the memories of people who died there were suffused into my mind. Since coming out of that place, I've been feeling different. My mind is being filled with more and more knowledge and memories as time passes. A certain individual keeps coming up, in folktales and hushed whispers... some sort of champion of something… but it's all so unclear."
* Ike funeral in town square
* Man in a white lab coat comes over and tells you to get out of the road
** You were supposedly the last people seen with Ike
** Says that he has access to many of the major communication channels across the Kanserine Empire (he reverse engineered a flipstone that he stole from some criminal a few years back - #44 MAG)
** He's an "underground researcher" named Lucius Cournot, who spent a good amount of time with WVK and has met Sylas before
** Takes the party down a sewer drain to a small "camp" set up, that from the outside looks like homeless people might live inside it
*** Filled with modern lab technology and equipment, with a large battery that seemingly siphons electricity from some of the buildings above
*** He wanted to show Castor the remains of one of the old labs that contained some of his father's research, which all burned up a few years ago
**** Book glows > Log 6, then it says:
**** Dorian Zharov is a human being from the pre-comet country of Russia. He is the current wielder of a fully realized Door of Ambition, and is approximately 1043 years old. He was involved in the founding of many countries throughout the continent, and has gone by many different names throughout history, including:
***** The Immortal Prince
***** The Mountain
***** Father of the Sword (Saints)
***** Impression of the Eternity Fragment
***** and most recently, William Vaelin Krenting
** "He whittled a lot in his free time. A bit of a strange guy, but he was always so nice and helpful. Nothing really remained after the lab burned down. Although, one of his carvings actually survived. I carry it with me just to keep it safe."
** He takes something out of his pocket > a physical, two-dimensional black bar
** Takes you through a large pipe, pushes open a hatch, which leads directly outside the Asphodelian embassy
* Outside Asphodelian embassy
** Guard recognizes Voladore
** Says they will have to ID the rest of the party
** Takes them to a bridge at the edge of the Sea of Stars using a large palanquin
* Book: 
** "It's almost time."
** Logs 7-9
** "Would you like to remember your sin?"