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This is a fun exciting montage memory! A training montage, to be exact.
It features Sashay Silfda, appearing much younger than they do now, and starts with them bounding as a wolf through a taiga, where they're found by a Wyld Hunt which they're informed was formed for them specifically, due to the fact that they've been taking literally no effort to actually stay hidden and untrackable.
The ensuing battle goes a lot worse than the one in their last memory, but at the last second they're saved by a group of fellow Lunars which also had been tracking them down. They're taken further north, past the bounds of Proper Civilization, and given a place to stay. Amongst the group that rescued them is their mentor, Strelka, who fought off the Hunt with the power...of song.
And screaming and punching a lot. But mostly song.
Notably, all of the Lunars they're living with have intricate silver tattoos, visible regardless of the form they're in - Sashay does not.
The rest of the memory is mostly them spending months in a community of Lunars learning about Lunar history, largely things they already knew and which they promptly ignore. There's a lot of attempts to get them to integrate into society and join the Silver Pact, but they refuse this to the point where they barely ever even bother to take a humanoid shape, staying as a wolf almost exclusively. Strelka is the only one they grow particularly close to, and she teaches them how to sing and how to fight properly - Sashay seems very excited about the prospect of learning to sing at people until they die. In doing this she also manages to get them to better control their powers and be less prone to mcfucking losing it.
Tragedy strikes, however, when Sashay stumbles on the group's Elders discussing them - specifically, that based on what they remember they're almost certainly the incarnation of someone who has apparently traditionally been very difficult to deal with for the Silver Pact. A plan is drafted to deal with them if necessary, and Sashay decides to save them the trouble and leave the community.
Strelka catches on to what they're doing and makes an attempt to stop them, but they fail to be convinced. In the end, she gives them one final lesson:
"Luna gave you a heart so that you may follow it. Whatever you may have heard, whatever you may remember: know that only one thing is truly asked of us, and that is that we live without regrets. So go, and live. Make Aria proud."
THINGS LEARNED IN THIS MEMORY:
LUNARS:
- created to protect Creation
- were bound to Solars to prevent Solars from becoming too powerful and also to prevent Lunars from getting sick of their shit and doing a kill. The Silver Pact was formed to maintain Lunar influence.
- Dragonblooded Exalts got sick of their shit instead and killed every last Solar with guidance and assistance from the Sidereals, and set up their own rule of Creation in an event called the Usurpation.
- Most Lunars who didn't die fighting the Usurpation fled to the edges of Creation, seeking refuge near and sometimes in the Wyld, where spooky fairies called the Raksha who lovehate the concept of 'things existing in a consistent and meanginful manner' dwell.
- Lunars have been declared anathema by the Dragonblood-ruled Realm and are characterized as shapestealing demons that possess your loved ones and destroy all that is good and holy while wearing their faces, which is not actually entirely incorrect somehow,
- The Wyld fucks people right up if they're in it for too long so the Silver Pact gives Lunars moonsilver tattoos to signify their Caste and prevent mutation.
- Raksha worship Luna too?????
- Some Lunars just straight up participate in Raksha rituals?????????
- are they furries or fairies
- LUNARS CAN GAIN NEW SHAPES BY DECLARING A SCARED HUNT ON SOMETHING, HUNTING IT DOWN, AND EATING ITS HEART. THE RITUAL IS PERFORMED THIS WAY BECAUSE YOU MUST LEARN WHAT IT IS TO BE SOMETHING BEFORE YOU CAN BECOME IT AND THE HUNT IS A METHOD TO OBSERVE AND UNDERSTAND THE MINDSET OF THE HUNTED. EAT HEARTS SHIFT SHAPES
- a scared hunt can be literally anything that carries the same weight. some Lunars play fairy games to take someone's name and form. some Lunars just have sex with things like furry succubi but with identity theft instead of soul theft. are they furries or fairies
THE SILVER PACT:
- is a loose organization of Lunar tribes, packs, and kingdoms.
- seeks to undermine and collapse the Realm in order to assert Lunar rule over Creation
- trust no other Exalted but especially not Sidereals (what the fuck are those)
- except the good Sidereals. and the non-realm Dragonblooded. and the Realm Dragonblooded who care more about personal power than upholding Immaculate doctrine. and Solars we like. and
- picks up new Lunars and teaches them how to Lunar, hopefully before the Wyld Hunt kills and murders them
- will not shut the fuck up about Luna
SASHAY SILFDA:
- Mentored by a woman named Strelka, almost learned SINGING MARTIAL ARTS
- Hatred of society started real young
- Definitely a wolf
- Doesn't have the anti-fairy magic tattoos
- who the fuck is Aria
- was actually not particularly good at fighting at some point. damn
- a summary of local Silver Pact elders' reaction to learning who they used to be
It features Sashay Silfda, appearing much younger than they do now, and starts with them bounding as a wolf through a taiga, where they're found by a Wyld Hunt which they're informed was formed for them specifically, due to the fact that they've been taking literally no effort to actually stay hidden and untrackable.
The ensuing battle goes a lot worse than the one in their last memory, but at the last second they're saved by a group of fellow Lunars which also had been tracking them down. They're taken further north, past the bounds of Proper Civilization, and given a place to stay. Amongst the group that rescued them is their mentor, Strelka, who fought off the Hunt with the power...of song.
And screaming and punching a lot. But mostly song.
Notably, all of the Lunars they're living with have intricate silver tattoos, visible regardless of the form they're in - Sashay does not.
The rest of the memory is mostly them spending months in a community of Lunars learning about Lunar history, largely things they already knew and which they promptly ignore. There's a lot of attempts to get them to integrate into society and join the Silver Pact, but they refuse this to the point where they barely ever even bother to take a humanoid shape, staying as a wolf almost exclusively. Strelka is the only one they grow particularly close to, and she teaches them how to sing and how to fight properly - Sashay seems very excited about the prospect of learning to sing at people until they die. In doing this she also manages to get them to better control their powers and be less prone to mcfucking losing it.
Tragedy strikes, however, when Sashay stumbles on the group's Elders discussing them - specifically, that based on what they remember they're almost certainly the incarnation of someone who has apparently traditionally been very difficult to deal with for the Silver Pact. A plan is drafted to deal with them if necessary, and Sashay decides to save them the trouble and leave the community.
Strelka catches on to what they're doing and makes an attempt to stop them, but they fail to be convinced. In the end, she gives them one final lesson:
"Luna gave you a heart so that you may follow it. Whatever you may have heard, whatever you may remember: know that only one thing is truly asked of us, and that is that we live without regrets. So go, and live. Make Aria proud."
THINGS LEARNED IN THIS MEMORY:
LUNARS:
- created to protect Creation
- were bound to Solars to prevent Solars from becoming too powerful and also to prevent Lunars from getting sick of their shit and doing a kill. The Silver Pact was formed to maintain Lunar influence.
- Dragonblooded Exalts got sick of their shit instead and killed every last Solar with guidance and assistance from the Sidereals, and set up their own rule of Creation in an event called the Usurpation.
- Most Lunars who didn't die fighting the Usurpation fled to the edges of Creation, seeking refuge near and sometimes in the Wyld, where spooky fairies called the Raksha who lovehate the concept of 'things existing in a consistent and meanginful manner' dwell.
- Lunars have been declared anathema by the Dragonblood-ruled Realm and are characterized as shapestealing demons that possess your loved ones and destroy all that is good and holy while wearing their faces, which is not actually entirely incorrect somehow,
- The Wyld fucks people right up if they're in it for too long so the Silver Pact gives Lunars moonsilver tattoos to signify their Caste and prevent mutation.
- Raksha worship Luna too?????
- Some Lunars just straight up participate in Raksha rituals?????????
- are they furries or fairies
- LUNARS CAN GAIN NEW SHAPES BY DECLARING A SCARED HUNT ON SOMETHING, HUNTING IT DOWN, AND EATING ITS HEART. THE RITUAL IS PERFORMED THIS WAY BECAUSE YOU MUST LEARN WHAT IT IS TO BE SOMETHING BEFORE YOU CAN BECOME IT AND THE HUNT IS A METHOD TO OBSERVE AND UNDERSTAND THE MINDSET OF THE HUNTED. EAT HEARTS SHIFT SHAPES
- a scared hunt can be literally anything that carries the same weight. some Lunars play fairy games to take someone's name and form. some Lunars just have sex with things like furry succubi but with identity theft instead of soul theft. are they furries or fairies
THE SILVER PACT:
- is a loose organization of Lunar tribes, packs, and kingdoms.
- seeks to undermine and collapse the Realm in order to assert Lunar rule over Creation
- trust no other Exalted but especially not Sidereals (what the fuck are those)
- except the good Sidereals. and the non-realm Dragonblooded. and the Realm Dragonblooded who care more about personal power than upholding Immaculate doctrine. and Solars we like. and
- picks up new Lunars and teaches them how to Lunar, hopefully before the Wyld Hunt kills and murders them
- will not shut the fuck up about Luna
SASHAY SILFDA:
- Mentored by a woman named Strelka, almost learned SINGING MARTIAL ARTS
- Hatred of society started real young
- Definitely a wolf
- Doesn't have the anti-fairy magic tattoos
- who the fuck is Aria
- was actually not particularly good at fighting at some point. damn
- a summary of local Silver Pact elders' reaction to learning who they used to be
