Poe's Journal Entry
Lan-I-Mata has given me so much to think about. It started when I went out to Fallgourd to meet her. I…I wasn’t even sure she would show up. But there she was…I rushed over to see her and she looked me over. I could feel my ears starting to droop, I was so fearful this was it, our goodbye. She looked me over and sighed. I immediately asked her why she was sighing and then she responded. You look exactly the same…nothing has changed.I suppose I got a little irked, I mean, what was that about. But then the odd Padjal explained. She knew beforehand that I was not meant to follow in the path of a White Mage. I couldn’t understand it then, why would she have agreed to be my trainer knowing this? Lan-I-Mata explained that she knew my predecessor, it sounds like quite well. Lan-I-Mata said she had been on the lookout for the next Mender, though she had not expected for me to just show up. To say I was baffled would be putting it lightly. She quickly asked if I had the Mender’s box with me. The two of us poured over the writings inside that the Mender had left me.
Lan-I-Mata came up with a list of things I needed to collect. She explained that it was time to truly set out on the path of a Mender. My empathic abilities will become heightened when traveling in the Shroud, so I need to be mindful. Lan-I-Mata told me I needed to gather flax harvested in the Sylph gardens. She will be able to create robes that will help me keep…some of my abilities in check while in the Shroud. She explained I was expected to look over the Eastern Shroud, so stated I needed to go out and visit, inspect, return to the lands and listen to the elements.
I suppose all of her…odd trainings, ways of speaking were her way to prepare me for what a Mender’s life means. Lan-I-Mata prepared to head off, stating she would return in two nights again. We would have tea and speak with the messengers of the Shroud, learn how I could help them.
Things have been dumped upside down…now I must find my way.
