The'kal shook her head but looked away.<span style="color: #666600">"Karrie and Karren are my only other surviving grandchildren, their mother was a saint and Elerona is... well she is what she is. All of the others were slaughtered. Every single child Elerona has sired except for the twins and the children she had with Zelina. The unborn children and their mothers. And it's my fault."</span><span style="color: #5900b3">"What? How?"</span><span style="color: #666600">"Because I ordered it."</span>Kitori didn't even try to hide the look of disgust on her face.<span style="color: #5900b3">"What!?"</span><span style="color: #666600">"My power is wild and dangerous. It would have spread through every child my daughter had and I... I was scared of what would happen. So I took my first and most loyal priestess and made her do my dirty work. I took a wonderful woman, a strong shaman of her people and ripped her soul to shreds because I was a coward and no, before you say it, I can't just take away the powers of another of our kind. I suppressed Relene's and Elune's, but I couldn't take them away even if I want to." </span>She paused as Kitori hit her as hard as she could muster, the goddess not as much as flinching.<span style="color: #666600">"Her name is Selma, she let one set of twins live." </span><span style="color: #5900b3">"Karrie and Karren."</span><span style="color: #666600">"Yes, and Ophidian has seen first-hand the destruction those two are capable of. But what if they been protected? Karrie would have been a priestess! Imagine, Ophidian, she would have made Zelina look like a mere child in terms of power and capability. Karren could have rewritten everything mortals knew about the arcane and instead... And who knows how many others could have done so much good for the world? Do you know why I always seem miserable, Ophidian? Because these are things that haunt me every day. I close my eyes and I see Selma, I look at my daughter and think about all of her suffering, she never knew why her mates were killed. Why should could never have children. Ophidian, I've seen hundreds of my own grandchildren slaughtered and watched my daughter suffer and blame herself for hundreds of years... I don't think I would be too upset to see Azeroth blow up. But you know I won't let that happen. I'll protect you, I always have and I always will. Azeroth is my home and my grave."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>