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@Smagon Its just holes in the world lore. Nobody is really sure how the first DRK got his power, just that DRK's after him were either indoctrinated into their Darkside or developed one from a stone.

I understand how the soulstones work, but what about the indoctrination. Is there any info on how it's done? There is no example of how its done, but Sidguru was not exposed to a Fallen Knights stone nor was his fellow apprentice when they were training under Sidguru's DRK master. During the period of his childhood when he was adopted to his current age, I believe is the time period in which he was indoctrinated and developed his Darkside. EDIT: Also at Smagon -- The first Dark Knight has self realized his own dark powers and used them to save others. The rest after that are either indoctrinated by a living DRK to their darkside or develop one from picking up a fallen DRK's stone.

In order to gain a Darkside, you need to be exposed to a Fallen Dark knights soulstone or indoctrinated into the Darkside. As seen in the class quests, the WoL is exposed to the soul stone, while Sidguru is an indoctrinated DRK.

I thought about this for a bit and being a Dark Knight is actually kind of tragic in itself, since you cant live a normal life anymore. The Darkside urges would make it impossible to live a stable normal life outside of battle because it will constantly urge you to do things like kill, spill blood, etc. The Darkside urges differ on an individual basis from Dark Knight to Dark knight. Some urges are completely unexpected, but a Darkside outside of battle makes a normal life near impossible. I call Sarnai the Ortharian Dark Knight, and the way I play it, I try to stick with the lore representation of it, but with my own twist. Basically, she can sense other Darksides and the void, the sooner being cannon that DRK's can sense each other and the former being added onto that because the Darkside senses malevolent intentions or the dark nature of others, which the void often has these aspects. I also play her as a ritualist that uses blood magic and rituals to enhance her power temporarily, divine things, etc. In short, she plays as if she was a witch archtype, but wearing heavy/light armor and a greatsword.

Not everyone can be the level of DRK that guts has going on.

1 (because we gotta prevent the greenwrath) 3 (Get the stones and cure people) 2 (Kill the big evil hanging around the shroud that lays deep in the earth.) In that order specifically. Sarnai wants to go into Toto-Rak the most so her going is almost mandatory.

((A filthy double post I know but important IC update things.)) A letter arrives to the residence of a miss Anstarra Silverain. It is addressed to her and the sender is from a Sarnai Kha. The envelope is rather thick with documentation and whatnot. ______________________________________________________________________ Report As of the last sun, I, Zanzan -our Lalafell Thamaturge- and miss Liadan -a hearer of the shroud-, came in contact with one of Mermin's associates, a large Hyurian man by the name of Nico. During this encounter, which remained largely peaceful to much of my surprise despite both Mermin and Nico being void touched, many revelations and truths were revealed to us, some more shocking to others. This report itself will contain a detailed accounting of what happened as well as speculation on my part. While I do not assume in my speculation, I feel as if caution is prudent, at least when dealing with such dangerous elements. I arrived around mid-sun at Bentbranch Meadows with an unconscious Mermin on my back. He was relatively light, probably due to the fact he may or may not have received proper nourishment during his captivity. Upon meeting with the group, I woke Mermin up then grabbing him by his collar, dragged him to his feet. At first, he seemed a bit terrified. Startled even. Let it go on record that I believe Mermin is a very timid and possibly weak willed and that should we ever need to bring him in for questioning, it may not take alot of persuasion. Perhaps even a feminine touch could break him. Either way. After we got him to lead us to where his associate was, we unbound him and lept through a hidden portal to arrive at a hidden hiding spot in a cave somewhere. There were these little black furred, long eared creatures with beady eyes and thin arms and legs carrying a rock. I do not know what creature this was, but it may be good Intel should we ever need to find and locate the hideout without the use of the portal. I still remember where it is and that it is invisible, so its rather hard to give you a specific place should you chose to go and look there yourself. However, I can show you where it is should you desire it. After we arrived at the spot, the cave was littered with bottles of wine and rum as indicated by the observations of the group. There were also those black furred creatures that were drinking from the bottles and the Hyurian man known as Nico was sleeping on a bed at the edge, seemingly unconscious. Mermin became distraught as his associate did not wake up to his attempts. I managed to calm Mermin down with a bit of feminine persuasion, and Liadan looked at the man named Nico and brought him around. From there, Nico and Mermin embraced and caught up with each other for a bit before questioning the presence of the group. From there, I observed that Nico himself could sense my powers, something which is rare among magic users, after some dialog and that during his time in the void as well as comparing the recorded encounters with the other void touched people who escaped from it that they all posess diffrent powers and strengths. Just from this observation alone, it should never be assumed that our foes fight with the same strengths. They all seem uniquely adapted to a certain type of fighting style or strategy and may be overcome with a bit of thinking, though this is just speculation created from observing reliable accounts. Again, we first spoke on how all this started. Nico was 'not' a prisoner intered within Thousand maws, but rather a simple merchant attempting to sell sleeping potions to the prison guards for subduing prisoners there. His account sugests that the prison came alive and ate all the guards and prisoners, regardless if they ran or fought. It is not known if people escaped the incident, but maybe gathering witness reports from survivors could shed more light on the incident. From there and many years after, Nico and Mermin were interred withing the void as the plaything of an overlord whos name for the life of me escapes me. They were constantly pitted against each other in a type of war games setting and even when they were killed, they were always raised by the overlord. Let it go on record that I speculate that this may have been an attempt to groom these people to some end, though whatever end that is is very unclear. More information should be obtained and or speculated upon beforehand as there may be a deeper, more underlying motive at work by the void lord. Also note that Mermin and Niko seem to have a deep friendship of some sort. Afterwards, he spoke of his release from the void. He spoke that they managed to escape several times beforehand but were always reeled back in. There recent, and longest managed attempt at escape has been there most sucessful by far. They mentioned and talked about what they did after their release, such as catching upon on modern events, though most of that conversation was rather not noteworthy. It was mostly them thinking that everything around them was an aperition created by the void lord who used to control them. He also spoke of a way to cleanse themselves of their void taint, but it required the acquisiton of the other two holy stones that they were still searching for. One was still in Amdapor Keep, with the fellow who had it running off into the ruins. He said the other was in the East Shroud, deep in the Sylphlands. I said that if it would help cleanse them, we would help retrieve both stones, so its advised we make plans to scour the Sylphlands and Amdapor when possible. Private speculation on my part, but maybe when we acquire one of these stones, we replace it with a fake and keep the real one. My gut feeling cant help but tell me that this is a clever ploy by Niko to get us to do his wetwork for him, then reap the stones for another nefarious end. I never voiced concerns or suspiciouns about it during our encounter, but speaking of it privately, it is an option we should consider should worse come to worse. Most of the encounter after that was attempting to bring them into some sort of safety net or custody. Miss Liadan wanted to bring him and Mermin into the fold of the Stillglade Fane, but Nico refused. I offered for my fellow Knights of the Ortharian sect to care after them. However, this resulted in a verbal altercation between me and Liadan. While our alliance is rather uneasy, she has proven to be a stout ally and strong conjurer. We work well together and I could not ask for a better partner, if only that we come to the same conclusions most of the time. This concludes the report. Most of it anyways. May come by soon to speak on it more if you wish. ______________________________________________________________________

((A Journal entry pulled from my Tumblr for its relevance to the post)) I sleep the dreamless sleep, with nothing but terror and uncertainty to accompany me in my waking moments. If I could, I would make things as they were in Orthard whole once again, when we were free to roam the lands with my sword brothers and sisters without fear of the Garleans and to deliver justice where it is due. I rarely give council to anyone about my inner thoughts ave this journal, one which has served me well and let me sort out my own thoughts. My sword brothers and sisters who came with me to Eorzea from Orthard, or what is left of the Ortharian sect anyways, have all aclimated to normal life, working normal job's as craftsman or laborers. Some have even started family's since they came out. A risky move on their part but after being driven from Orthard, most just wanted to settle down. That is their choice, and I respect it. A few suns ago, I met with Kale Anderson, an Immortal Flames officer who I have crossed blades with once in a bid to silence him with death but have since made up with him and have become uneasy friends, have passed onto him a thesis about the Ortharian order and some of our history in the hopes that if we should ever run into trouble or public opinion is incited against us that the Flames will come to our aid. This was not to gain friends but to protect our order should any of my sword brothers and sisters ever become targets by the uneducated, common masses. Ignorance of our power is widespread. Any who see us fight are quick to assume that we are void possessed and label us as dark magicians of a sort, so informing the flames of our existence may have been a reckless strategy but it was necessary in the event to keep them from attacking us for the wrong reasons and support us for the right reasons. The sword-brothers and sisters names were stricken from the records to hide their identity from the flames so I am the only one whos existence they know about. Kale is only a flame Lieutenant and says that he cannot promise if his betters will except our existence but it works out better this way. In the event that they do not approve of us, they will only come after me but if they accept our kind then we may create the foundation for cooperative activities in the future should they require my abilities. In the end, this will only reveal to each other who is the friend or foe. Matters in the shroud have grown worse. Me and Leanne will be scouting out the prison of Thousand Maws. If my suspicion is right, there will be a wellspring of void energy and where there is a wellspring, there is powerful voidsent. If we kill said powerful voidsent, I can use its freshly killed corpse in a blood ritual and the magic strength of its blood should enhance my ability's to sense darkness and be able to locate where most of our targets are at. Then it should be a simple manner of hunting them down. The Dark will not be able to hide them from me. That however, will only happen should we find that we can make our way deep into the prison without severe resistance. In the end, we simply need to locate a powerful voidsent for the ritual to be possible. No need to rush these matters yet unless situations in the shroud grow even more dire. I will be leaving tomorrow with miss Liadan and sir Zanzan. The thief said he would take us to his associates and this might reveal secrets hidden in all this madness. It could also be a trap in which case we will be sorely outmatched. Who knows, but hopefully the interaction will be relatively peaceful. Im going to write a letter to miss Liadan. Its best we set our diffrences aside before we head off to a possible trap. I know that I hate how Gridanian's worship their stupid tree's but I think it would be better to just get over my own issues with them and accept that we are in this mess together. Not that I need her to accept the apology, but that will at least clear the air between us. Hopefully. Anyways, I will write more soon. PS -- if anyone is reading this journal after pulling it off my dead body should I die or be dead, please burn it as these are my own private matters and thoughts and should not be intruded upon. Will reward you if I see you in the afterlife if you do so. ______________________________________________________________________ ((A Letter to Liadan)) Miss Liadan I am sorry for my behavior during out last encounter. It was rude of me and I said those things not out of personal malice but out of a sort of condition I have, sometimes which I have no control over or have a hard time controlling. However, due to the coming event of meeting with the thieves friends, I believe we should set aside our personal grievances and experiences with each other so that we might have better synergy should we have to fight. I do not expect it but regardless, I would like to know that my back will be covered as would I cover yours. You do not need to reply to this letter, but it is okay if you do all the same. From Sarnai Kha

*nods* Ill go again I guess. Truth.

I dare you to eat the remains of the frog I just ate.

You're cornered in a room with a bunch of people cheering you on to kiss a warty toad. Would you do it? I would EAT IT. <3

Hahaha. Aaron would definitely do that. Anyways. Truth.

Ill take a spot for No 3 if nobody claims them by the time the event starts. Nevermind, though my character can sense a form of magic so should you need the extra buffer then im free.

Despite how tiny and young Sarnai looks, she is actually 29, though most consider her to be around her early 20's.

Ill jump for Player event 1. If not Player event 1 then ill just go with regular event 3.

Thats the point. Also, Dare Edger to hide the body. I dare you to eat your mattress. Welp, he is using gif's. Ive lost, lol. Dare Cliod to eat her favorite food but its coated with acid.

Thats the point. Also, Dare Edger to hide the body.

I dare Edgar to eat a Ghost Pepper dipped in Wasabi.

War Siren is a DRK? Right? We need more DRK's. Still shes awesome, from what I hear occasionally in a random LS every now and then. The blue text means Nailah is a moderator right? Moderators are cool.

Sarnai will definantly be there if only to try and redeem herself.

Location: An Inn Room at the Forgotten Knight, Ishgard "What do you mean that I am fired?!" Sarnai shouted, slamming her left fist on the table. She wore an expression of angry disbelief, her brow furrowed and an angry scowl on her face. In the room in front of her was a man wrapped in a completely black cloak covering him from head to toe. He remained silent as Sarnai expressed her clear anger at the situation. "Tsk." she said as she calmed down then brushing her hair to the side of her face with her left hand, leaned back into the chair she was sitting in and crossing her leg's, right leg over the left. "Some bastard must have told him about me, or something that I did." "Master." the tall cloaked figure said in a deep voice. "Shall we locate and execute the traitor?" He said without a hint of hesitation in his voice. "Hrmmm. . ." Sarnai hummed, thinking for a moment while raising her hand to her chin. "Killing would just make matter's worse. For now, figure out who told Otto Vann about the murder and find out their disposition on the whole thing. If they prove to be a liability then you can take their head. I would rather not prefer violence be the method though so think before you act." The dark cloaked figure lowered his head. "By your will master." Khansu was, to put it lightly, Sarnai's star apprentice she introduced to the darkside before leaving Orthard. He was not much of a talker and always very subservient to most things Sarnai asked for. "It is by sheer luck I think that I am not wanted at large in the shroud for killing two people. I guess I owe that to the fact that the victim's were Ala'mhigans and that the pointy ear's do not like outsider's. Still, it will be a hassle in future dealings in the shroud." Sarnai scoffed as she set her hand down on her lap. She looked at her right arm, which seemed to be healing nicely. The pain lessened every day, which was good. She had a gut feeling she would need to be in peak physical condition for what was to come and an injured arm was sure to slow her down. She looked back up to Khansu and asked "So what is my bounty out there currently?" "The bounty is small master. The guards are keeping and eye out for a shady looking or tiny Auri out in the South Shroud, but should pose no issue should you avoid settlements guarded by Wailers." He stated, with no change to his low tone of voice. "Well that means this will be okay barring more violent outbursts from the Darkside." She said as she sighed a bit. "Master." Khansu said, pulling out a small guildleve pamphlet from his robes sleeve. "There was something listed about someone wanting to gather individuals who have sighted strange thing's in the shroud. I thought you may want to give it a look, given our recent talks on the shroud." He said, offering the pamphlet to her. Sarnai was quick to reach out and receive the pamphlet with her left hand. She read over it for a minute or two, before setting it on the desk, then looking to her apprentice, she would say "It seems people are one step ahead of me and are attempting to nip whatever is going on in the butt. It would not hurt to join with them and help, if they will accept it that is." "Will you make the trip then master?" the apprentice asked. "Likely, yes. I still have to help the shroud, even if they do not want me there or hold me in contempt. I have to make a stop at Ul'dah anyways so it is convenient." She said as she moved the piece of paper to the side. "Speaking of Ul'dah though, you should come. Bring a friend or two from the order. I will be speaking to an outsider who knows of us. While I have confidence that our meeting will be civilized, it would do well to have a few hand's to stay any idea of violence for either side." Khansu bows his head slightly. "By your order master. When do we leave?" "In a few sun's. For now, we bide our time in Ishgard while my wounds heal. I trust you will protect me should outsiders come for us?" Sarnai asks, raising an eyebrow at her apprentice. Crossing his arm over his chest, he bows and says "By you will master." "Excellent. Off with you now." Sarnai said, making a dismissive hand waving gesture with her left hand. As Khansu left the room, silently and without much noise, Sarnai would slump back into her chair and sigh deeply. Recent events were alot to take in. She practically had to convince herself and lie to others she trusted so that way they would not turn her away. It pained her to do so. She hated lying to trusted people and friend's, more than anything else, but if she simply asked for help by telling the truth and without them knowing it was not her fault for killing the two civilian's in quarrymill then they would likely have not helped her mend her arm. Sarnai honestly did not care for the death of the two civilians. What was done was done and not much could change what happened, however she believed she was handling the situation poorly. She hopefully wanted to believe that the situation would resolve itself and all this will blow over before her lies and actions come to light in the face of those she trusts, but fate is hardly ever that kind and would no doubt wrench around her guts even more before it was all said and done.

Sarnai was sitting in her own room she payed for at The Bobbing Cork inn. Her recent squabble with the Ala'mhigans and the intervention of the Wailer's was not unexpected but in her Darkside driven rage, she was caught off guard and hurt by one of them. They were too strong to face alone, so she ran. She was lucky that word did not spread so far North, otherwise she would still be on the run and hurt with an injured arm. It hurt her just to move it. She could still pick up her blade and swing it, but it was visibly tense and swollen where she was hit. "Damn. I got careless." Sarnai hissed as she sat on the inn bed. She had taken her armor off and was only in her underwear and a cloth wrapped around her chest. She was attempting to alleviate the pain in her arm but knew nothing off first aid. Her darkside always healed her wounds and made sure that she was protected from attacks, but for some reason, her darkside could not heal this. It was a shock to Sarnai really as she dipped her arm in ice cold water, hoping it would help alleviate the pain. As Sarnai hissed at the pain, her darkside appeared before her once again, sitting across the room at the table and wearing the ceremonial armor that her and others from the Otharian sect wore. Sarnai was quick to glare at her darkside, hissing out "You! Why did you have to kill those two?" Dark Sarnai whom was sitting at the table just chuckled slightly as she crossed her legs and arms, saying "They were in the way and the code dictates we slaughter all who are in the way." "I dont care. You did your little stunt in front of alot of people. Now were both in trouble because you wanted a little blood." Sarnai hissed as she raised her arm out of the water and moved to the closest drawer then pulling out the biggest top in there and donning it. It was a shirt bigger than her so it did not fit quite right. "So what are you going to do? You know you cant kill me and to suppress me would just weaken your power." Darkside Sarnai retorted to Sarnai. Sarnai Tsk'd at the sound of what her Darkside was saying but she was right. To suppress the Darkside would be to weaken her and there was little else she could do. "At this point I am not that mad anymore, but now that we have killed someone who did nothing wrong, we will need to redeem ourselves somehow." "And how do you suppose we do that sister?" Darkside Sarnai said as she leaned in, her gaze still locked on Sarnai. "The shroud has a dark feel about it. I cant sense it, but I have a gut feeling that there is something wrong. Especially with that incident involving the undead. We help get rid of the Shroud's darkness then maybe they will overlook our aggressions. or they may not, who knows? But at least we will repay the blood debt that we owe." she said as she leaned over the drawer. The drawer had a mirror on it so Sarnai was using it to apply makeup and eye liner to her face and eyes as well as lipstick. "If it mean's that much to you then ill help fix the shroud's problems but dont expect me to play nice." Darkside Sarnai said as she leaned back into the chair. "I do expect you to play nice." Sarnai stated as she finished applying the black eye liner to her eye's and then reaching for the black lipstick, she said "Im done with your reckless behavior sister. Eorzea is not like Orthard. They have laws. We may have been the law in Orthard but now it is the other way around. Our lives depend on secrecy, trust and understanding with outsiders and mindless slaughter, even if it is in the name of the Dusk Mother, is not tolerable if the victim's are just civilian's that have done no wrong to us." Darkside Sarnai scoffs. "Just civilians? Sister, all men and women are born with sin in their hearts and lives. We have a duty to slaughter anybody who crosses us wrong." "Enough. We may be equals that share the same body but this time I have the last say and my say on that matter is that you will keep your mouth shut from now on and do everything I tell you to. Or would you rather fight and cause a huge mess?" Sarnai said as she finished applying her lipstick and makeup then turned to Darkside Sarnai after setting down the lipstick, glaring at her. Darkside Sarnai hesitates for a moment then scoffs, saying "Whatever. I tire of these foreign obstacles. If you will not spill the blood of the unjust over concern of what everyone else will think then I shall do it for you. We are here in Eorzea for a reason sister. I trust you will remember that when the time comes." Darkside Sarnai said, her form eventually turning back into black smoke then disappearing. After a few moments, Sarnai took a deep and long breath, then moving over to the table, she reaches for a pen as well as parchment and begins to write letter's to several people. ______________________________________________________________________ To mistress Klynzahr I trust that the others succeeded in their air raid correct? Well I have run into trouble and said trouble has led to an injury that I cannot heal or fix on my own. I will be coming to Ishgard soon and I would request if you could fetch a medicinal expert of some sort. From Sarnai Kha ______________________________________________________________________ Then reaching for a second piece of paper, she begins to address a second letter, this time to Kale Anderson. Sarnai was concerned what a man left to his own devices with incomplete knowledge of what her powers were, so she took this chance to educate him while she still had time. Who knows? Maybe she could turn him around and make him a stout Ally. ______________________________________________________________________ To Kale Anderson I am sure you are wondering why I am writing to you so I will try to be to the point. I am sure you are still concerned of what my power is and you are frieghtened of it. So I will take this moment to explain to you what it actually is. My power is born from my Darkside and the darkside is not fueled by the Void or dark majic's. It is fueled by emotions. Specifically, very negattive ones such as hate, anger, rage, suffering and whatnot. The darkside is not fueled by those emotions specifically though. I do not share my body just by myself. When people in Orthard awaken to their Darkside, they split into two. One is dominated by thoughts of pure destruction and selfishness and the other represents the original person. We co-exist really and hope to do right by others when we can. My darkside is more reckless and destructive than others. Sometimes I cant control her and she hurts others, but I always try to make sure she hurts others who have done wrong to others when I lose control. You may not agree with my kind or my methods or my conditions, but every day is a struggle just to live a normal life with such a destructive force sharing the same body with you. And with you reading this letter, I hope you can come to an understanding that I am not an evil being that you make me out to be. From Sarnai Kha. PS -- I have a book I wish to desire to show you at the earliest convinience. If you still wish to talk then you have but to ask for me and I shall come. I will not be alone though. While I do wish to make amends with you, that does not mean I will trust you blindly. ______________________________________________________________________

Marti is pretty cool. Played with him a bit IC and hanged out him in the Roll Eorzea LS. Can honestly say that hes a cool guy to hang around. Would recommend to RP or hang out with him 10/10. IC Marti is probably one of my favorite Ishgardian temple knights by far because he plays it really well.

Sarnai and Ginshaw did a little ground work and they chose a place for the ambush spot for event 1. Will be needing to meet with everyone that's participating in the ground effort and maybe the air assault as well. (Except for Gin and Klyn. Gin will be informing you about the plan IC Klyn.)

Episode 3, number 3 please!