Chapter 27: Justice and Loyalty
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A lot of people have end-of-life revelations or something...... Right?
Whether to believe or not depends mainly on the status of the dying person in the listener's heart. There is no doubt that Shen Yan is an extremely important relative in the heart of Erebes! Just hearing the word "near-death", Erebes's eyes turned red, Shen Yan was pressed under the ruins, and the scene of dying and about to die in the sea of fire seemed to return to his eyes! She couldn't help but reach out and grab Shen Yan, for fear that as soon as she let go, her little brother would leave her again.
Shen Yan clapped his hands and comforted Erebes, who was a little emotionally broken—although he couldn't bear it, the plan still had to be carried out, and he had to make Erebeth prepare for the "future"!
Although Hell is connected to Faeron, it is full of "noise" in the perception of the gods, and the gods are omnipotent but have no way of knowing what is happening in hell, so it is best to use it to explode some black material of the gods! But once in a while, it's okay, if he takes Sister A to dive all day long, then the fool knows that the situation is wrong.
Therefore, if Shen Yan wants to fight for this time, he must make things clear thoroughly! Maybe Erebeth will still be skeptical about it now, but when the "prophecy" continues to come true, she will finally believe everything.
Clearing his throat, Shen Yan began to speak in an emotionless tone about what "he saw at that moment" - "The Life of Erebeth de Timarande".
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Erebeth de Timarand was born in the village of Thunderwood in the Neverwinter Forest, to unknown parents.
It could be a pair of half-elves, or it could be a combination of a moon elf and a human.
The small village was completely destroyed in an orc attack, and Erebeth was the only survivor of the massacre. She swore blood for blood! She hunts down the orc tribe that attacked the village in the Winterless Forest, and eventually slaughters the orc village and burns it to the ground!
However, revenge could not fill her emptiness, and after completing her revenge, she continued to kill until she was trapped in the mountains by a sudden snowstorm.
Before Erebeth starved to death, a man with a crippled right hand appeared to her and sent her to the monastery of Ilmat (one of the three gods of justice and a good friend of Tyr). Believing that it was the incarnation of Tyr, the god of justice, who saved her, Erebeth regained her health in the monastery, trained, studied and converted to become a paladin of Tyr.
A few years later, with the fame he had accumulated over the years, Erebis was sent by the Church to the City of Neverwinter as the elite guard of Lord Nasher (the Nine Guards of Neverwinter). Soon after, she became the first respected female non-human magistrate in her reputation for justice.
Later, she meets and falls in love with Vanswick, also a half-elf, priest of the Inquisition Hall of Tyre.
"You say I'm in love with someone else? How can it be? No, I mean...... Where were you then? You're just looking at it? Erebeth interrupted with an unkind face.
"If you don't listen carefully, didn't I say you're the only survivor? The only one! Meaning I'm dead, sister...... I'm dead! I didn't survive that disaster. Shen Yan stared into her eyes and said.
At that moment, he saw despair in Erebes' eyes! It's not that Erebeth didn't hear it, but he didn't want to believe it...... Sure enough, his past guess was right!
Erebeth seems to be always calm and noble on the surface, but on the inside, he is far from being as strong as he seems. I definitely didn't think about it, Shen Yan silently pushed the car off the cliff in his heart......
Her first pillars in life were her family and her village. When these are destroyed by the orcs, Sister A falls into a frenzy of revenge - her revenge has obvious self-destructive tendencies, she wants revenge and dies in revenge!
In that blizzard, Erebeth should have waited quietly to enter the realm of death...... But the incarnation of Tyr appeared and saved her, and faith became her new spiritual pillar, and the church's philosophical identity led her to join and become a member;
The next step was the success of the cause, serving the people of Neverwinter and gaining the approval of the people, which became the second pillar of Erebeth's heart;
Then, the appearance of the lover Vanswick is the third.
Feelings, career, and beliefs are three harvests, and at this moment of Erebes's soul is complete, and the happiness of life has reached its peak.
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"And then?" After a few minutes of calming down, Erebeth asked with a little gritted teeth. It's all a good thing, but it makes people feel very unhappy inexplicably! "If it only ends here, you will never take me to another world to tell me."
"DR1372, a plague called 'Death of Sorrow' swept through Neverwinter...... Shen Yan finally told the story that happened in the main line of "Neverwinter Night".
The plague has devastated Neverwinter, and Erebeth has been appointed by Lord Nasher to resolve the crisis.
…… After a bit of frustration, "an adventurer" (i.e., the protagonist) successfully solves the plague in Neverwinter and captures the mastermind behind it, the fake Helm Priest Deszel, who is actually the leader of the Cult of the Elder Reptile Queen Morrag. It was he who orchestrated everything behind the scenes! Whether it's spreading the plague in Neverwinter or destroying the antidote, it's all his fault.
But unfortunately, Erebes's lover Vanswick is also involved! Not only is he a close friend of Deszel, but he has also done a lot of wrong things for Deszel when he was blinded.
In order to appease the anger in the hearts of the people of Neverwinter, Lord Nasher ordered Vanswick to be hanged in public!
Sister A's pillar is broken again!
However, instead of caring and comforting her lost lover, it was followed by a reproach from Tyr, the god of justice, who believes that she has made a mistake, that she has failed to look at the people around her with the right eyes, and that she has not been able to make a decisive decision immediately after discovering it!
The church believed that she had been blinded by love and had hesitated on the Vanswijk matter, which had tarnished the church's reputation; The people of Neverwinter accused her of being a derelict man, suspecting her of being a complicit with Vanswick in the matter, and Lord Nasher let the rumors spread without suppression......
The churches that put their hearts, the lords who served them, and the people they served left her one after another, and the pillars of Erebeth broke one after another! She fell from the top and became nothing again! Even more brutal than the last time!
This time, Erebes, whose heart collapsed, directly chose to fall!
She betrayed Neverfell, turned her back on Tyr, the god of justice, and became a fallen paladin by Morag, the ancient reptilian queen. She gathers a united army of the evil races in Lukanth (Sister A's reputation in the hearts of the evil race is also very high), and prepares to inflict the harshest revenge on Neverwinter.
Pity...... Under the mouth of "some adventurer", Erebeth finally chose to give up when the soldiers came to the city. Others can fail her, but she can't fail those who once trusted her. After the war subsided, she was mercilessly executed by Nasher for war crimes!
For political animals, any tenderness is superfluous!
"Your soul has fallen into an icy hell, four floors further down here, where a new adventurer awaits its rescue." Shen Yan spread his hands and said, "This is all I see in the future......"
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"Little brother, little brother, what should I do?" Erebeth put his hands in his hair, his body curled up and moaned. Just like when he shouted Shen Yan's name in the ruins that day, he was full of despair and helplessness.
Shen Yan didn't speak, he just hugged Erebeth firmly to warm her.
He knew that Sister A had to think about this matter herself...... For the first time, Erebeth took the initiative to retract into his arms and reached out to hug Shen Yan! She was completely overwhelmed by the panic of the future at the moment. Erebeth couldn't imagine what it would be like to go to the top of her life and then fall down all at once, and all the people close to her become enemies in the blink of an eye...... But even just thinking about it makes me shudder.
For the "future" that Shen Yan said, Erebeth has already believed in seventy or eighty percent.
Because what sounded like she would do it, helping the people of Neverwinter with their problems, was no different from what she was doing in the Neverwinter Forest now, and it made her even more and more unsure of what to do.
"Don't worry, I've got you covered this time." Shen Yan said in Erebes's ear that Sister A would never end up with the tragic end in the game, because the biggest variable has been generated, and that is Shen Yan herself!
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In fact, there are more internal things that Shen Yan didn't say, one is that he can't explain how he knows so much - others can be fooled with "deathbed revelations", but in-depth analysis of internal relationships requires rich experience and knowledge accumulation.
The first layer is the political struggle in Neverwinter.
In 1329, Lord Nasher, with the support of the "League of Lords" who dominated Waterdeep, became lord of Neverwinter during the reconstruction.
In 1360, Nasher declared his conversion to Tyre, the god of justice, and built a huge temple of the god of justice in Neverwinter! Anyone with a discerning eye can see that after 30 years as the lord of the city, with the rise of Neverwinter and the consolidation of his own power, Nasher has finally begun to try to break free from the influence of Waterdeep!
He introduced the power of the Templars in order to restrain the Union of Lords;
During this time, the Church of Tyre sent a number of magistrates and paladins to the Pearl of the Northlands, both to build temples and to help Nasher consolidate his power, including Erebes. Unfortunately, in 1372, after Nasher completely took control of the city, he began to fight against the church of Tyre - the pastor Fanswick and the holy warrior Erebes were executed one after another, which was the most direct blow to the church of Tyre!
Obviously, this time he won again!
After the power of the Church was weakened to a certain extent, around 1380, when Nasher was entering old age, he finally "accepted" the persuasion and officially became the King of Neverwinter! Changed Neverwinter from a liege's rule to a royal realm......
The whole operation is just two words, hehe~
For this kind of political animal, Shen Yan hopes that Erebeth can understand his cold face, and even if he goes to Neverwinter, he will no longer be as loyal to Nasher as he is in the game.
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And the second layer is the ancient reptile queen Morag.
In this part of the Neverwinter City, in ancient times, it belonged to the elves, and then to the reptiles, and after the reptiles were expelled, it was the turn of the multi-race dominated by humans. So there's nothing wrong with the reptilian queen plotting to regain the territory "since ancient times".
The problem is that you shouldn't have calculated Erebes and Thunderwood Village!
Since she did this, Shen Yan would definitely fight with her endlessly. But this guess Shen Yan didn't plan to tell Erebes that Sister A had become obsessed with revenge, and Shen Yan was afraid that she would be impulsive. Morag is at least a demigod, and now is not the time to harden him...... The point is that it's just not!
And then there is a third layer: why would the three Bichi goddesses join forces to plot against him? What does this have to do with Tyr?
For the third layer, to be honest, Shen Yan doesn't have a clue for the time being. If it weren't for the three goddesses suddenly killing him, he wouldn't even know where he had provoked these three goddesses. However, Shen Yan also vaguely guessed.
The biggest problem is that after the plague of Neverwinter has passed, Tyr, the god of justice, has made a pact with Heim, the helmet god! This is the brief and only time in history that two gods who don't like each other have formed an alliance!
Could there be any connection between this?
The Plague of Neverwinter seemed to be an opportunity for the two gods to reconcile and form an alliance with the Church, which seemed to be a ...... at the time It seems that just going with the flow to find the most favorable outcome. But looking back, it seems that everyone involved in the whole event except for Erebes, the ordinary people of Neverwinter, and the trapped ancient reptile queen Morag seemed to have benefited!
The "traces of acting" in the middle are too heavy!
Ostensibly, it was the fake Heim Priest Deszel who played on everyone.
But if you analyze it deeply, you can see that his existence objectively broke the deadlock of confrontation with the two major churches, and his reversal contributed to the cooperation of the two major churches! Finally, his death was a gift for the two churches together! Heim didn't know it was possible, as Neverwinter was Tyr's territory, and he didn't pay much attention.
Now you're telling me again that Tyr didn't know in advance that Deszaire was a fake?
Oh, God of Justice.
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You know, the gods of the righteous side like to do what kind of test, what kind of trial, the thing that makes you fall first, and then whitewashed.
His teacher Atwood was this routine back then, if Shen Yan didn't save the Swan World, the teacher would definitely fall into the abyss with the world and become an evil overlord. Hypothesis...... If the teacher can break free from the abyss, the future achievement will not be below Haim.
Sister A's experience looks like ......
Anyway, you can't wash your name, that is, you can't do it yourself;
If you are really whitewashed, it will become a test for you by the God of Justice.
"Little brother, what should I do now?" Erebeth asked weakly. After thinking about it, she felt that it seemed like a lot of coincidences on the surface, but in fact, there was a ring on the inside, and it seemed that since the Thunder Kimura tragedy, she had fallen into a cobweb that she couldn't break free.
The Hunt, the Blizzard, the Descent of Tir, the Monastery of Ilmat......
"Ask my advice? Well, the first one to be careful of Tyr, the god of justice, whose justice is not necessarily yours; The second Beware Lord Nasher is a cold-blooded political creature who doesn't deserve any loyalty to him!
And then there's ...... Do you want to wear more clothes in winter? ”
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PS: The background of the story will be told sooner or later, and I will finish it in one chapter, so I don't have to worry about it in the future.
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