Sensational Flux

OBSESSION love in cold blood ... Kriemhild had felt this divine beckoning once before; arcane whispers, these archaic secrets humming to her from beneath the bountiful earth.  It called to her, lured her from the sanctuary of the forest into the depths of nowhere - a land fathomable only in dreams awoken then to create this surreal reality.  This place was both foreign and strange; a mystical, clandestine place swathed in a veil of relentless secrets and long-lost fables.  Her grandmother oft raved about a great stag who had come to know the most intimate tales of this land; he had known magic, had learned of its source and conquered the very kinetic frays that many mortals sought to simply possess or witness with star-struck admiration.   She could not help but to wonder now as she stood before this towering gate - an imposing slab of thick, carved stone - if that great stag would be the one to welcome her. A compelling urge to touch the intricately carved runes overwhelmed the E'leond doe and it was cold upon the tip of her flaring nostrils.  The heady perfume of earth and musk filled her with a sense of lulling comfort.  It was as if the air itself surrounded her in a soothing coverlet of serenity; every ache from her travels now gone like the pluming curl of waning smoke.  Emerald eyes languidly fell to darkness as charcoal lashes fell as if humbled, and she embraced this sensation of warmth and pleasantry, unlike anything she'd ever known.

Before the gate he would manifest, an ethereal image created through magical fabrications as if he were an answer to the young boys prayers.  His presence was imposing, enchanting.  A creature whose guise was stern and aloof as it bore down upon the much younger buck, unrelenting and cold.  Eidolon's ethereal image would say nothing; it would turn, touching the runes of the stone gate in a specific order and each would glow brighter at his fleeting caress.  As the last rune illuminated, he would stand there, silent as if composed of stone, bewitched then by Medusa's lethal stare, waiting for the young buck to open the towering gate and unlock the secrets contained within.

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Kriemhild will be faced with the Illusion Sands trial to earn the mirage charm.