Nathandiel's Trial of Resolve

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Nathandiel examined the lapel of his robe, his long fingers caressing the fine fabric. It wasn't a bad robe for a hotel creature comfort. He looked up at the bare form of the young man who was seated at the piano in the suite's salon. He wasn't a bad creature comfort either.

The music that drifted over home was kind and the hands the produced it over-educated. "Wine?" He looked over his shoulder at the young woman. He shook his head and she went away.

No. I must take to this tedious task.

He had put it off long enough and wine was no good for writing. He reached for the board and parchment as set them on his lap.

Atticus Grace,

‘Trial of Resolve’. There could be no better name for this task. You sent me to seek the stories and ministrations of two of your female Grim stock. Both were deformed, dull, dead and plagued by neuropathies.

Tradire Redmourn

Tradire Redmourn boasts an ill-fitted speech-assistance device which she reports to have fashioned herself. I believe her, it is poorly made. She claims to have once had a robot available to speak for her but that she grew impatient with it and took matters in her own hands.

Redmourn claims to be a victim of the Third War. She belonged to a family of tradesman; her parent’s kept a shoppe and her brothers were smiths and cousins tailors. She died of her own misguided ambitions; she took up arms when the scourge arrived and perished. When asked if she would take this course again after considering her lack of skill she became angry and gave a rather bold declaration that ‘anyone faced with death should take to arms’. She fails to grasp the concept of ‘living to fight another day’, pointing to issues of impulse.

It is unclear why Redmourn was resurrected by the Lich King. She claims to have trained while still a marionette and has made no attempt to enquire about the final fates of her family members.

Redmourn mistakes the inquirer’s observations of acceptable esthetic station prior to death for flattery. When questioned about previous reproductive ambitions Redmourn claims to have been too young and to have been absorbed with the intricacies of maintaining a shoppe. This points to either evasion or lack of success with the opposite sex, a situation quite clearly manifested after-death.

Redmourn has transferred her values established in life with her real family to The Grim. She sees them as family and purports to believe they see her in the same light. She claims to wish to ‘right wrongs’ yet is unclear as to what warrants a ‘wrong’ and what can be done beyond annihilation to correct such things. It is the inquiriers opinion that Redmourn is a borderline megalomaniac with clinically significant psychosexual repression which has resulted in blind, but firm loyalty to groups rather than individuals.

Anaie Breen (?)

Anaie speaks with a dialect of Orcish that points to a severely low socioeconomic status and a destitute level of formal education. She possesses an unhealthy preoccupation with her sister, Syreena, and suffers from pronounced auditory and visual hallucinations further complicated by delusion. The nature of her delusions are that inanimate objects to speak to her, in this case enucleated eyes, and that by covering her own she can achieve ‘clarity’. It is clear that both the objects of her delusions and her behaviour towards her own eyes boasts a representative meaning. If Anaie were to make use of her own faculties the magic in her world might lost. Perhaps clarity is not what she truly seeks.

The Inquirer cannot say whether the tale reiterated by Anaie regarding her life before death were accurate but the comment that the tale was long, winded, and wrought with inconsistencies can be made. She believes Syreena to be her sister and claims to have been raised away from her until and unlikely time in which she herself was mistaken for Syreena by her sisters caregivers where she proceeded to impersonate her sister in exchange for room and board.

Anaie claims to have died voluntarily at a time after her sister, ‘sistah ate tainted grains’, is offered as the means by which Syreena died and the event that lead to Anaie’s own death. Anaie was caught out by the father of her sister’s family when the father discovered she did not possess a scar one night while drunk. She claims that the man that raised her did so after her biological father had plans to use her as currency in the payment of debt. It is not clear whether or not this man possessed nefarious intentions upon taking the child as his own.

When asked what Anaie would have sacrificed for the Grim in her trials she reported that trials were not yet part of The Grim’s constitution in her entrance times. She proceeded to divulge her loyalty to the mandate rather than The Grim as an entity and spoke of ‘buryin’ a meat cleaveh in Awatu’s head’ if he were to violate it.

In conclusion two women boasting poor mental statuses are unlikely to boast a representative sample of ‘resolve’ in The Grim. However, having to speak them did require a great deal of it.

Dr. Nathandiel Deh’lorei

Nathandiel looked down at the letter and smiled.He called the girl back to him. “Fold this once it has dried then put on some clothes and have it delivered.” He said, passing her the board. She gave a shallow bow and padded away.
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Greebo turned into the officer's wing, striding briskly toward the heavy doors at the end of the corridor, deep in thought. His progress was halted by the clear, firm hand of the script on the missive lying on the top of the inbox. He picked up the report, curious, and began to read. He nodded once or twice but the nods turned into little shakes of his head and he held the scroll out at a distance, squinting, as if the viewpoint of the reader might change the viewpoint of the writer. He tossed the parchment back into the basket and only then noticed the name on the office. He gasped quietly and backed away, realizing that he tread on boards that were no longer his by right. He spun on his heel and strode back out and away.
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Nathandiel,

Maybe I wasn't clear, or maybe you just aren't that smart. The point of the interviews isn't to learn the faults of individual Grim, but to gain deeper understanding of the Mandate, of their relationship to it, and of your relationship to it.

What did you learn about the Mandate?

- Atticus
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Grace,

Family. A means to an end. An ideology that permits one to accomplish greater things than they could on their own.

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...Can I stab it wit' pointy t'ings?
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Nathandiel,

You're assigned a third interview, with Awatu. Return with some wisdom, or don't return.

- Atticus
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