Private We Know You

[Hatred]

The Elder stepped through the tall grass, idly drifting a hand over the blades. Soft, alive. A smile had formed as he watched the prairie sway in the wind. This planet was so alive, so full of life. Was this what beauty was supposed to be? Perhaps. For him, though, this was a world that was worth ending. This much life, all lost at once, would surely lead to something truly beautiful in the echo of death. He paused his walk, paused his hand atop one of the blades before gently pulling away as he looked up. The smile bloomed wider.

"My Lady, how I have longed to meet you. You, the Maw. My kin and I have never dreamt such good dreams. We thought you were all gone, but it seems you survive at least."

He bowed, deeply before the Witch.

"The work is not yet finished. We want to assist. To bring about your great mission."

Tegan Starfall

 

[Tegan Starfall]

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Theme: blood//water
Tags: Hatred

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The moment he had broken the air of the world, she could feel it, smell it, taste it, and hear it. She knew he was coming before he even decided on the right direction. This world was her, and she was it, one an extension of the other bound by soul. As he approached her, she did not turn to face him, she let him speak.

"If you know of the Maw then you know you walk upon their first world. The place of their first Bone Temple. Also, the first world they were willing to sacrifice to the armies that came after them."

Though that Temple was now long gone from this world, destroyed when the The Confederacy tried to enact its supremacy on the beast that was the Maw. The same day she had bound her soul to this world forever, claiming it as part of her.

"My mission?" Her tone cynical as she let out a little chuckle.

"We?" The thought made her chuckle again.

"I'm all that remains of the Maw, because the rest got seduced by the delusion of empires. I never wanted Empires. Because Empires are just ash to build the next one upon. Endlessly, they rise and fall in a pointless cycle that raises the few and crush the rest."

She looked out over the horizon of Rhand before finally turning to face the man who addressed her. Short in stature she was, black raven hair, pale skin, and orange glowing eyes that burned like suns.

"Tell me, We, you? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to do? How far would you go? For what it is that you truly want?"

As she noticed him bowing, which caused a grimace to cross her face. She thought about kicking him in the teeth for that. Yet she managed to hold back her disgust and vitriol at such a slight, mostly out of curiosity at what this man was trying to sell her.

"If you ever bow or kneel before me again I will eviscerate you." Her calm sweet tone, turned deathly serious with a hint of madness in it.

 

[Hatred]

"Everything in this galaxy, all the galaxies that have merged together, will burn. That is what I will sacrifice everything for." The Elder stood straight, keeping the ever kind smile on his face despite the goal he spoke aloud.

"I seek the Maw. Not the Sith that ruled them from the shadows. Not the Imperials that took over. The true Maw that will consume the stars. I ask you, allow me to help bring this galaxy death. Let the Maw's mission begin anew."

Tegan Starfall

 

[Tegan Starfall]

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Theme: blood//water
Tags: Hatred

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She watched the man carefully as he stood up straight, and he spoke of sacrificing everything to bring this Galaxy to ruin.

"Good, because the path I have walked you will have to sacrifice everything. You aren't just fighting the Galaxy you so hate. There is a presence to it all, one that will not let go of the grasp it has over us all."

The people and the empires they built, to Tegan were just illusions created by something much greater. Illusions in the dreams of fate, and Fate did not want to die.

"Not the Maw's mission, a different path. The Way of the Dark is what you seek. Also, not just the Galaxy, beyond the stars which the eyes can see. If I join with you, we will destroy it all. We will use entropies fire to cleanse this existence."

 

[Hatred]

"All the more reason for us to want to help you. Let all the stars in the sky become only an echo of what was until they finally fade." It was more than agreeable for Hatred. If all existence ended on this side, how much would the Netherworld change? What would be born of such a terrible wound?

What would be born if the Force died?

"I will provide you with what I can. Kheedar has already begun it's cleansing as it's people take power to bring ruin."

Tegan Starfall

 

[Tegan Starfall]

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Theme: blood//water
Tags: Hatred

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Tegan watched the man's eyes now as he spoke, looking up at him being a foot taller than her. There she could see his conviction; he clearly would not stray. At least not at this moment, she had seen that conviction before, seen it fade so many times.

"Kheedar…." She thought back, trying to remember if she had ever been there before. She had seen so many worlds, they all seemed to blend together at this point very little difference between them. Perhaps she had been there or perhaps she had just read something about the world once she didn't really know. "A factory world."

"The only thing, I need or want is to see it all in ruin. All you need to offer me is a place in the apocalypse to come. Also not to try and put me on a leash. You want worlds brought to ruin I will be there, but my ways will not be controlled or made to be contained with in someone else's ideal."

She was someone who had betrayed allies, friends, and family. Lost everything more than once and sacrificed even her own life before. All for what she believed in war, death, rebirth the motto of the Maw she had lived it long before they even formed. She would see the end and get a glimpse of what came after even if she never got to be apart of it.

"Tell me though why Kheedar? Why did you and those that follow choose that world to make your mark?"

 

[Hatred]

"Give the people the tools to light a fire, and they will burn everything down. My people are numerous, but weak. They will give everything to complete their goal." The weak would become strong, through any means necessary. He set a hand over his chest, smiling that much more as he listened to to her question. The why of it all.

"The people of Kheedar suffered. When they sought to turn that around, to be free, they were made to suffer more. They waited for help, reached out to others to fix their problems. Towards the Jedi. But the Jedi arrived far too late. This man here suffered a cruel fate despite his desire for peace. When he was bound to die, he finally realized that just waiting was never going to change anything. He reached out, found me. Did what he had to to gain power."

The Elder dipped his head for a moment before looking up towards the stars above.

"They all chose the same. They won't wait for a chance, they'll make it. They're only the beginning."

Tegan Starfall

 

[Tegan Starfall]

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Theme: blood//water
Tags: Hatred

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"I see." She said letting the words linger not letting her orange eyes move from the old man. She understood possession but there was a fine line between it and madness of the mind which she also knew well. Whichever it really didn't matter, by this man's tale he had risen up against those who had caused him suffering and that was the detail that caught her attention the most.

"So, few in my experience choose to pull themselves up and rise above their suffering. Fewer still know what needs to be done when they finally do stand up. Then buckle when their oppressor offers them a seat, becoming the very thing they fought against."

She wasn't against being the oppressor, sometimes that was needed. Sometimes you had to play that part to move the board closer to the end game. It was the hypocrisy of shaking the hand of the opponent in concession for a draw. Joining and becoming that which you warred against, it was just admitting defeat without the white flag.

"If those that chose the same path as this man, and they wish to fight the plight fate has bestowed upon them. Then Rhand will stand with them." She turned then pulling her eyes from the man looking back over the horizon. "We…" She spoke for the whole world even if the population was only around five thousand. "Haven't ventured outward in sometime, they were waiting for my return. Yet I can feel it in their beating hearts the fires burning in them. Much like those of Kheeder and the man the people here have suffered greatly as did I once."

She could feel them all on this world, her people the sorcerers, the raiders, and just the common folk who lived in the single port on this world. Her eyes closed for a second as she felt the raging fire in them all.

"I am Tegan, does the man have a name?"

 

[Hatred]

"There were no chairs left to offer by the time the cleansing began." Too much hate. Too much power already taken. Hatred had already wormed it's way into their hearts and their bodies had already shown such mutations. They weren't a host. They weren't ideal. But they could be used, as all things could be. His smile widened just a tad.

"Not that I am aware of. I go by the Elder, for now. It seems to allow people to address me."

Tegan Starfall

 

[Tegan Starfall]

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Theme: blood//water
Tags: Hatred

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"Elder…" She mused letting out a little chuckle at the name. She wasn't laughing at him or the name really. It just amused her that she would be calling someone who was probably a lot younger than her Elder. How many old jedi and sith haggard and worn by war had she mockingly called children and kids because she could. Now here she was calling someone Elder.

"Well, Elder will do then." Her thoughts then drifted back to the mention of no chairs being left. The chair was always there, but the cleansed could never see the man as an equal. They could not see past their own pride, they could not see their own destruction before the chair was burned along with them.

"It's funny isn't it, for the atrocities the man has caused in cleansing his world, the wider Galaxy will call him a villain. He brought retribution to those who had caused him and others suffering. They will see it as cruelty, I would call that mercy. What we do from here on out will be viewed as hatred. Yet that is the purest of emotions it is where the truth is more times then not. Though I just pity them all."

 

[Hatred]

"There is no emotion more human than hate." It was the only emotion he properly understood, at least in his mind. Pity had no place there. It was through hate that he was made, and it would be through hate he will enlighten the very galaxy around them. He closed his eyes, letting the memories flood the Elder for just a moment. A reminder.

"They don't need pity. They will see what they wrought when the path reaches it's end."

Tegan Starfall

 

[Tegan Starfall]

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Theme: blood//water
Tags: Hatred

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Tegan smirked at the Elders words. She had expected him to fully understand her meaning of pity. To her pity was not a kindness, it was what you gave the lost life form that could not change or break free from its confines. A caged animal that had given up and submitted, pity was not sympathy in her eyes, it was the cruel feeling you felt before you put someone out of their misery.

"That is pity, to late to change, to late fix what they have wrought. Pity is hate disguised as sympathy. Because the one who gives it knows that the one they bestow it upon can't change, can't fix what they did, and it is their pathetic nature. Then with that pity you can pull the trigger and claim it's a mercy, when its fact it was because you hated what stood before you.

Pity is hate, because you look on those in squaller and say how sad but do nothing to help them. So many think it's a kindness or understanding, when it's really an uncaring hatred. I pity them because they will never understand or see what I see. I pity them because they are nothing and they will never know that. If only they were stronger, if only they opened their eyes but they will die instead. I hate them for being blind, for following fate instead of defying it.

Pity and hate are the same thing in my eyes."

She mused to herself more then to the elder.

 

[Hatred]

Pity is hate?

For a moment Hatred paused. The smile had faded, turned instead to a much more thoughtful expression. Uncaring hate. It had stuck out to the being born of hate to hear such a different point of view. Was that something he could understand? Was that an emotion he could hold? Pity? He wasn't too sure, but perhaps.

Perhaps.

"When I first became aware, all I had was the memories of hate. A million voices, silenced in one, brutal moment. The hate they felt, for their leaders that brought them such a fate, for those who had brought it to them. It is the only emotion I truly understand. Perhaps this pity is something else I can learn. thank you, for your insight on this."

Tegan Starfall

 

[Tegan Starfall]

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Theme: blood//water
Tags: Hatred

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Tegan nodded her head in understanding as for perhaps for the first time in the whole of this conversation the one known as the Elder spoke their deep truth. She too had felt that type of hatred once, that realization that had first set her on her path of destruction. That moment when you saw existence for what it truly was.

"I became aware as a child long, long ago. When I felt the whips of masters, heard the demands of so called idealists, smelled the perfume that disguised their disgust of lesser, and saw the envy in their eyes for those that had even more. I felt that kind of hate then, when they came for the one thing that was truly mine at the time."

She turned back and looked at him as her eyes flared up like suns for a second. The one thing she had even then, those eyes. Her mark from birth, when she was ripped from her mothers hands by her uncle and was given to her father's enemies. Her eyes, the sign that there was a burning rage in her even then.

"When they came for my eyes, I slaughtered them all with all the hatred in my heart. That hatred grew, as I saw even more. So, I understand and in time you will learn hate can wear many faces some may even surprise you."

 

[Hatred]

"Perhaps I shall, or perhaps we will reach the end before I truly can appreciate these human emotions." His goal was, ultimately, to bring about the end of everything. How or why wouldn't matter in the long run, so long as the Path met it's end. He turned his gaze towards the sky, watching the clouds, watching the subtle shift of the sun as it moved along it's path.

"We'll have to see."

Tegan Starfall