Gifts and Revelations Part 3

## Episode 30 - The FeyWild West

In her estate, Seline Argent-Grey ritual casts divination to ask the Undertaker about the differences between her dream and the way she remembers how they first met using a bone. The bone disintegrates leaving behind the words, the feather. With extreme reluctance to use her new favorite thing, the Undertaker feather, Seline again ritual cast divination asking now what? Seline is plunged into darkness after hearing the sound of a door slamming open. there is light still around her and she is face-to-face with the Undertaker. The Undertaker asks Seline to have tea with him. Seline sits at the table in the kitchen in the memory of her childhood home. Seline takes the opportunity to ask about the key. He says that she has the key because of who she is. The key is the symbol of recognition of what she already had and all of his clerics have this key. although all of them are not responsible enough to use it. Lastly, she has the key because she is his child.

> **Seline Argent-Grey**Because you chose me?**The Undertaker**Also because I chose you.

When the Warden had seen the key 800 years prior, that was one of the first of the Undertaker's children responsible enough to wield it end in Seline is getting close to that point. From the moment he met Seline he knew she would get to that point and she proved it a year ago when Talia died and again . The Undertaker's third cleric also pulled somebody from beyond the door before he was entrusted with that ability as well as lay souls to rest. However he didn't knock as Seline had for Talia, he forced the door open. He didn't guide souls to the door, he dragged.

> When the time came that I entrusted him with the key... it was a dark time.
>
> The Undertaker

Seline still has doubts whether she is responsible enough for the key. Amer (The Undertaker's first cleric) ran when she first saw him. Justin, the third cleric, thought the Undertaker was a foe to be fought. However, when Seline met the Undertaker, she walked up to him, held his hand, and said she wasn't afraid. It used to be that the devout in faith were rewarded with the cleric’s abilities but the God War change that. Since the Sundering it's been more difficult for gods to enact their will upon the world especially through clerics. This is why there are so few clerics. The Mother grants power as blessings to the specific individuals she chooses, she can't take the power back once given. The Dragon has relics imbued with his power scattered throughout the world and he guides his worthy to find them. The Warden is not strong enough to grant anyone direct power but his devout received his guidance. The Great Oak believes that its worship is a matter of course and it doesn't grant power to anyone. The Great Oak seems to think that nature and the wild are the beginning and the end of things. The Undertaker doesn't know if the Wolf grants power to anyone but there have been individuals that have called on the power of the Wolf and some of them have done great harm to the world. The Undertaker’s limited power is confined to his family line. Amer is Seline's great great great great great grandmother. Seline is descended from The Undertaker and the Queen of Night and Magic. The Sundering threw the planes of existence far from each other. Travel to other planes was impossible until they got close enough again. By then the Broker kept trying to cross over and someone told him where to make his attempts. With the power that Seline would gain from the Undertaker along with the fey line that she was descended from, the Broker continue to present the door to Seline until she opened it. The Undertaker reveals that Sarastra Aestruum’s line was gifted to him as a wedding present has a connection to the material plane. When the Undertaker was a new deity he had no worshippers and was unable to interact directly with the material plane and mortals except when they died. He was still young and didn't recognize the flaws that Sarastra Aestruum had when she offered him a deal. In exchange for taking her hand in marriage, she promised the Undertaker the ability to interact with the mortal plane, shocking Seline. The Undertaker gives this knowledge to Seline knowing that she is his child, she is responsible his most devout follower, and his favorite. Crying Seline embraces the Undertaker. Seline is still unsure whether she can do any of this.

> I have faith.
>
> The Undertaker

With a fluttering of wings, Seline is returned to her shrine room with his feather whole in front of her.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

## References

1. ↑ Episode 0
2. ↑ Parts Broken Made Whole Part 2