Caelestis Role Play

Ceremonial Trial
Pov: First person

“We were starting the final trial. I was the one of the last people to start it and I can tell you I found it so..Life giving.  I don’t know why but rushing through Volla’s forest during this night felt more lively than ever. Like I was feeling some kind of acceptance from Volla itself. Like it was cheering me on, wanting me to succeed the trial. I kid you not, the path I was meant to follow had lit up. Showing me  colors that we would only see up in the sky. There was a gust that pushed me along...I felt faster than I ever did. The whispers from the ancestors chanting just encouraged me to move forward. The funny thing is I didn’t track where I was going.. Now that I think about it I don’t think I could’ve..There was this deep fog that made it hard to distinguish my surroundings. The fog had only lifted after maybe an hour of traveling? 

Once the fog had cleared I heard some kind of thud on the snow, followed by a loud groan and a couple of growls?  Following the noise I found an orc. She huge, I mean like mom.. She was a behemoth. If she had given me her pants I promise you there would be at least four of me fitting in them. I didn’t know what to do, we’ve ran into Orcs before and usually it ended with some form of violence. Excluding a case or two… So Instinctively I would’ve drawn my bow and arrows, but after noticing the situation I decided against it. This person was hurt, there would’ve been no honor in trying to take it out and I didn’t even want to fight. I just took out the bandages that I had packed up, took out  the herbs from the gardens and went to try and aide her.

She was stubborn as hell. Threatening to maim me if I even attempted to help, but I didn’t feel any actual threat coming from her words. So, I did my best with the bandaging, made her some tea from the herbs and prayed to Volla that she would have a quick recovery. While I waited I started to sing father’s lullaby, you know the one where he sings about the world being my diamond and how pure it is.  Well, I think that was my way for her to open up?  Cause after talking with her. I learned that her name was Shyama Eldstrom, in exchange I gave her my name.Then we started talking about how we ended up here in the first place. She told me it was to find herself, going back to her roots while connecting to her god….. Livida? I think? So of course I had to tell her about the ceremony. No, I didn’t tell her the whole culture just the fact that I was doing  my final trial and not knowing what that trial was exactly I just ended up here… I explained how it was through Volla and the ancestors will that I was in this spot for this exact moment, and that it was probably to test my morals or some sort. We spent the rest of that night making up our own tunes. In the morning I decided that I wanted to help her hunt a Geistroll.. Mainly because I myself was hungry and eating Geistroll wouldn’t have made such a bad breakfast. Begrudgingly she accepted my request. We had gone to the mountains where we kind of waited awhile...I kind of stopped Shyama twice from making the killing blow on some, my main reason being that the first one was a baby, and the second one was a pregnant mother. Though as a reward we ended up killing a rather plump elderly Geistroll. We had our meal and went our separate ways after that. It was only after that interaction the fog would’ve came back as my path lit up again. The wind pushed me along as the ancestors started singing as I made it back to the village, and as my trophy Shyama gave me some kind of necklace..  It has runes on them, see! If I remember correctly the runes placed on here Ingwaz because how ancestry is so important to my--Our culture, Raidho for my future travels and for promoting magic and my love for singing and dancing, and last but not least, Tiwaz for spiritual growth and enlightenment.  This is a token of a new found friendship and I’m holding onto it for as long as I can..I guess the lesson I learned was about and I probably won’t ever...but I’ll tell you, Shyama is one badass Orc, I do hope we meet up again.”