<span style="color: #666600">"I did a perfectly fine job, I disguised her but I didn't take her powers away. That she matured and grew into the woman you know now is completely on her. No, you're aware of what <i>they</i> know. The problem is that I'm older than all of them. The difference in my age and our empress, before she was devoured, is similar to that of Arlokk and Whisperia. The problem is that they call me paranoid because I know what their empress actually is and understand the threat it possesses. The woman they know as The Empress was actually devoured a few hundred thousand years ago. She was replaced by the very thing that devoured her. It wears her 'skin' as it were, but all of her followers are too young to have ever-"</span><span style="color: #5900b3">"What do you mean devoured?" </span><span style="color: #666600">"There's a creature that travels through the cosmos, nobody knows what it actually is or where it came from. It's neither good nor evil, but it feeds on us, our people and then becomes us until it hungers again and consumes another. It gains our power, our memories, our knowledge, even our mannerisms."</span><span style="color: #5900b3">"And this... thing is now ruling your people?" </span><span style="color: #666600">"Yes, and because I identified it, or tried to, it had me branded insane and now I, along with the rest of Azeroth, are being constantly watched. I know Scholar and Order are only here to watch me. They report back to their empress to make sure I'm behaving." </span><span style="color: #5900b3">"You do realize this all makes you sound crazy, right?"</span><span style="color: #666600"> "I'm one of the oldest living beings, one of the most powerful, and the only one to ever create offspring with another female. I'm pretty fucking insane by all rights." </span><span style="color: #000000">Kitori paused for a moment then shrugged. </span><span style="color: #5900b3">"Age and power do tend to make someone look mad, especially to common folk."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>