<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/21/d9/bd21d9b34494bcb3bd8fb8f02b18539a.jpg)<br/><sup><strong>Songbird<br/>10th Sorcerer/Celebrity</strong></sup><br/></div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/c3/69/37c369375a348ab8dbfba167d22dffe4.jpg)<br/><sup><strong>Keki<br/>4th Ranger/Archetype Monk</strong></sup></div><br/><sup><strong><span class="bbc_u">Statistics</span></strong></sup><br/>Darius   AC 28  HP 140/140<br/>Diabelle AC 14  HP 56/56<br/>Songbird AC 26 HP 105/105<br/>Keki AC 20 HP 68/68<br/>Onyx Guard Dog AC 15 HP 8/8  https://pf2.d20pfsrd.com/monster/guard-dog/<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>While Darius moved to the other pool after soaking in the Soothing spring brought forth by Songbird.   He looked into the pool, and so far only his reflection.  Songbird casts a couple more heals on herself.  Bringiing her up to full.<br/>At 2021-10-05 11:00:31, Songbird (uid: 714) rolls: 2d8a8 Result: 22 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=156507)<br/>At 2021-10-05 11:00:42, Songbird (uid: 714) rolls: 2d8a8 Result: 20 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=156508)<br/><br/>Finished with healing she turns her attention like Keki in watching and waiting to see if anything happens.   Darius is looking for answers,  ones that tell him of his heritage his past where he comes from.   Just as he believes it is a old wives tale and nothing to the pool and its reflection.<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u"><sup>Reflection of the past.</sup></span></strong><br/><br/>Two sons,  twin born.   Are born to a human woman and man. However, the man seems to have a heritage of infernal design, making him a Tiefling ancestry and the woman has ancestry of an Aasimar as their  Royalty,  dressed in the style of Vudra/Padhe adornment.   These two infants grow up,  young men that lead to a battle against a army of Vudra.  You realize that this is your ancestor's when the kingdom became an empire in breaking from the rest of Vudra. Now the twins, ancestry shows, the oldest the firstborn of the twins exhibits he is celestial and the second born son is infernal.  The one of Aasimar ancestry becomes the first emperor of the newly formed Padhe empire.  The reflection shifts, and it focuses on the second son,  he is with others performing dark rituals.  You realize he is part of a coven.<br/><br/>The first emperor marries a beautiful noble of human ancestry.  The first empress of the empire.   The reflection shows the first night in consummation of the marriage.  After the fornication, the Aasimar emperor rises up and leaves his new wife.  When he eits the room his appearance ripples and you realize it was the Tiefling brother.<br/><br/>Nine months later the empress gives birth to a son,  the heir to the empire.   It flashes through many scenes of the boy growing up.  He doesn't exhibit that he is either Tiefling or Aasimar ancestry.   Until he takes the throne from his father and forces his father into exile.  For he is accused of killing his twin brother the Tiefling.  The body of the twin Tiefling is shown in a middle of a witches's coven performing a ritual.  His Tiefling heritage comes forth.<br/><br/>This emperor has a son with a concubine.   Then when that son is thirteen the father has an accident a serious one that puts him bedridden.  It is the sixteenth year of reign.   It shows a mysterious figure then going into the bedridden emperor bedroom.  He does not cry out as if expecting it.   The figure plunges the dagger into the chest of the emperor killing him. The emperor is mourn with much pomp and buried.   The scene shows cloak figures of the coven exhuming the body.   Then again that scene of the coven gathered around performing a ritual with the body.<br/><br/>The scene shifts to the young sixteen-year-old emperor.  He has multiple concubines over the next eighteen years.   Then a familiar face, your mother Darius.  She was a concubine.  She becomes pregnant with you.  She has you  and your still a baby in a bassinet, you are what seems two to three months old.  When she is visited by the emperor.   She is impregnated again.  But when the emperor leaves the room,  his countenance changes, and he is a very old man,  of Aasimar blood.  As the pregnancy of this child advances.<br/><br/>The scenes shift, to the grand marshal with your mother.  They are going over ancient scrolls.  Your mother is animated, and the grand Marshall the general that now has usurped your throne is sympatric.  Yet he is demanding.  She gives birth to a daughter.   While still recovering from that birth.  She runs away with you.  The field marshal and the man that had hired you to escort Songbird help her escape the palace with a younger one-year-old version of yourself.<br/><br/>The picture shifts to a monastery those of that coven of witches searching it.   The emperor there with some of his guards along with the witches.   You realize they're searching for you and your mother.  The old man you seen that had laid with your mother and impregnated her with your sister is there.<br/><br/>The advisor and field Marshall are cast from the capital.   The advisor who hired you is sent as ambassador to Absalom and the field Marshall is in the field with the famed black legion.   Your father has nothing to do with the raising of your sister.  Not until she is sixteen years of age and she is brought to him and made a concubine.    it is his Songbird,  for the concubine sister the princess is his half sister.<br/><br/>The scene jumps to two years later.  The Field Marshall stages the coup the advisor you recognize now older is with him.   They kill your father.   They make your sister revealing to her the heritage of her past and she is declared empress.   It is hard she has been raised a slave to be a concubine.    The scene shifts and the assassinated emperor your father body is stolen from its tomb and again you see the coven of witches doing the deed.<br/><br/>The scene shifts the Field Marshal,  the old monk that is Songbird's father and the old advisor.  They are in animated discussion.  You see clearly that the Field Marshall has ordered you to be killed.  Why through does he do this for years early he had saved you or not saved helped your mother escape with you and why did he do that? The other two are not in agreement to assassinating you as the Field Marshall takes the throne and becomes emperor.<br/><br/>The scene shifts to you taking the job from the old advisor.<br/><br/>Society DC 20 to understand who the old monk is.<br/>Occult DC 20 to understand what ritual the witches' coven is performing.<br/>Lore Heraldry DC 20 to know of this witches' coven.<br/><br/>Each can roll all or any of the checks to figure out the questions raised and what has been revealed.<br/><br/>Songbird cannot piece it together,  the geas on her has her not being able to see it straight.