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What that wizard made of Mathias is a horror beyond all mortal torment. If the King had not known full well and witnessed what the so called ‘elixir’ entailed I would have refused on his behalf. Fool of a man, what matter is it that you’d be reborn and made anew forgetting nearly all of the pain of your past life by your sixth year?
What about Asherah’s gift of new life to grow within a mother’s womb was so abhorrent to choose that horrid trinket instead?!
Our work is to save all Asherah’s children! To secure them for safety as the mother wills! Not lock them in prisons of silver baubles to suffer without sight, without touch, without even voice or sound if a wizard should will it!
And it is not like his horrific little prisons are any closer to the goal than Asherah’s rebirth, a ruinous expense for the stones alone and the labor of a Wizard Smith to extract and shape the ‘shining alum’ and ‘living silver’ into his ‘elixirs’.
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Nevermind his sneaking the sorcery of a wyrm to shore up his work!
This will not be the way to see Asherah’s children through the realm to a secure safety after death! It cannot be done! Even if it was not a horror upon horrors! There is not enough of his horrible metals in all the realm to secure every dead soul.
Blessed be you Asherah that there was some comfort for your child in that abominable Beast’s care. Assuredly is your blessing showing true in the woman half of that monster to care and tend the wretched prison that Erhard has trapped your child’s soul within.
I entreat you as your most devoted and prized possession! First among your sacred property in the realm, give me guidance to see the heartless Wizard away from this monstrous path. Lend me vision to see how I can temper the cold steel and fire of his ways with your love.
-Journal of the Archpriestess of the Temple of Asherah, Burning Depths Ford