>>FROM:@AEGONNER >>TO:@ALL >>RE:ARANEAN LEGENDS | >>TO:@SOME

[northerndragon]

>>TO:@ALL

They have their legends here of the Watcher and the Hunter. What do you know of them?

Has anyone mentioned the King Killer?

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>>CLOSED TO: PEOPLE WHO ARE IN A LOT OF CONTACT WITH DANY.*

If I fall in the arena, look after STORMBORN. And keep her from retaliating, if you can.

[*This is certainly the group Dany sent her last locked network post out to, but it can also include anyone whose player thinks they'd be included. I tried to make a list and ultimately didn't want to accidentally omit anyone. If there's reason to think either of them would consider your character friendly or a friend, your character got this.

Also, this entire post isn't really on any specific timeline; could be at any point in the last couple of weeks.]

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[northerndragon]

No, her stories weren't told by others. There was a sense that they were only stories to frighten children. Even for interest, I was more drawn in by stories our maester — our tutor — told us, the ones of Danielle's forebears.

[Now, he wonders, were those people real to him, or was it only that he aspired to heroic deeds? Some people see him as a hero now, but he doesn't feel like a hero, just someone who has scraped and scraped to survive and to help others survive. Heroism for its own sake, for the sake of renown, feels like such a petty thing these days.

A lot about Jhashch feels petty to him, even if its origins weren't. Is this sort of society what things come to if you're not careful?

How different is it really from King's Landing or further-flung places like Braavos or Volantis?]

We can test it, but we don't know enough. We can talk to people. Maybe there are books. If we survive this, there may be books back at BASE, too. The story means something to the enemy — we shouldn't stop thinking about it after we leave this place.

[And he wishes, now, that Sam could be at BASE, spending his days in the library. It would be good to see his friend, and better if he could apply his mind and his ability to find things in books to all of this.]

[horsepowered]

Hm. Frighten, but were there warnings about where not to go or what not to do in those? I'm...biased in my understanding these things, because I'm a part of them, just as Achilles is, just as Mordred is. We're given the weight of not just our lives, but the meanings that people have added onto us over the years. Those are meanings that endure. In the case of myself and the other Chiron, they've lasted for thousands of years.

Although the other Chiron has also lasted for a few thousand years compared to myself.

[It's the kind of perspective that some days, feels so weird to talk about. Like now. But understanding stories is important, especially when trying to divine the meaning of why some have stuck around in the way that they have.

What additional meanings have been added to the Watcher and Hunter, really?]

Mm. Checking here and books on BASE sound like a good plan to me. I may be so bold as to ask myself for clarification as well.