Gatherings of the Ordo (Old timeline)

[Voltrin]

This report contains multiple pages of quotations and thoughts on the interpretations. This is also hidden in the Library in a place only known by the Council and Voltrin himself until otherwise stated.

05/22/2014 "Templare. Daeiragh."

I passed by Phurgus' personal assassin while headed down to the crypts to do some intelligence gathering. He lurked in the Shadows, a skilled hunter no doubt.
I came across Saxon, Kaddix, and Daeiragh; Daeiragh being the apprentice to the Lord Inquisitor. Saxon asked if he had any progress towards her 'condition', to which she stated there was little.
Daeiragh spoke of encountering an old acquaintance that troubled her in their presence. Evidentally, more than we are looking in on them. She stated that a few emissaries of her acquaintance were in the room when she discussed the depth of her condition. I'm wondering if she could have old ties to the Cultro, or a member of...

Saxon seemed in disbelief she was spied upon while in the presence of the Lord Inquisitor one week ago.

Daeiragh believes harm will befall the Order and complicate their workings. She also speaks that if we learn the terms of her curse before they do, she is doomed.

"... I made the bargain, I felt only my guilt for how I had been played by my clan to condemn one better than I."

"I wish I could write it, say it, scream it what I must do, but as I said before-- you must watch my actions."

"I'll say her name, the one I wronged, Damarisa, hers as simple. Do you remember her terms? Do you remember what number they involved?"

"This is indirect but I must grow in skill of arms to break the first link... I must survive in battle and I..."

Damarisa's terms were spoken, that she needed to tell her story to three people in three different circumstances.

"Mine is more difficult... But the number matters. The first link is hard. But if I break it, the other two will follow swiftly... You will have a decision to make then-- but no matter what you decide-- after it will be broke, and I will have harmed none but myself."

She spoke of her bargain that resulted in this curse, was to free her sister from 'unravelling from the inside out', whatever that means.

"But she, just as I, once she stated to tell the first tale, then the second, she had to finish, from the power of the curse, she could not stop. When she was asked, she had to answer, when demanded, she had to answer."

She stated that the first step of her curse, was surviving combat, though she survived when I assailed her and the Scarlet for interrogation, though I knocked her unconscious. Perhaps this stipulation requires her arising triumphant. In this, I believe the Templare may attempt to bring battle with their numbers down on one of ours isolated, to allow her the killing blow and perhaps break the curse.

She was asked whom she planned to do battle with to break the first link, and she spoke with little confidence in her skill.

"Once it started, it carried it forward, not her, and it is this horrible pull of fall and control that I too will have to task. I do not know yet... I will know when it states. I will know by the pattern of three."

Saxon asked how she believed the Order could assist her, and she claimed that she needed to be brought to constant battle with teaching, and battle hardening. Perhaps she must become a veteran before she can break this link.

"What kills me, is the task itself, who I must defeat, is not important if you can unravel the "why" before it is too late. If you can see the pattern by step two and stop me before the third. It will be broken. I need everything from raids to arenas. Mostly I have to beg in the streets any ruffian I can find for arenas."

To this, I'm not certain if she speaks that in time, an opponent may become clear to her once she has become adept in her prowess, and acquired the means to swing properly, it is far too complicated a riddle for I.

She says she will fall into the steps of the curse, and people will see the 'symbols' and react to it, but not recognize the pattern, they will not understand the 'why'

She claims her sister suffered due to people reacting to the 'symbols' but not understanding the 'why'.

"If someone had decoded the 'why' by step two, she would have been free before the third had to happen."

"... But I have shown you the mechanics of it."
This implies that the Templare have already acquired the knowledge needed to break the curse, but have yet to understand it to put it to use.

"Three steps are not far from your perspective, but from mine they are chasms. They move quickly for an observer, but slow for me. So when you see it happen, stop me, please, by step two. Find the pattern, even if you do not discover it by step three. If you stop me from comitting step three to myself, I will be free."

So the final action of her curse is one that is self directed. The final act shall come after she has done combat, should nobody stop her by then.

"If I act strangely as I did tonight, it is something of my negligence, not of my intent."
05/22/2014, meeting night. I'd like to know if any Ordo were present to witness the meeting to account for her behavior.