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Nightlands: The Wanderer and the Wanderers
While thinking over details behind previously already posted thoughts (stuff I haven't outright said in the MCU crossover post), I felt a need to write in more detail about Elená and the Wanderer legend she is mistress of.
In the aftermath of Nightfall, and Elená's journey home after her capture and subsequent escape from enemy forces, she found she had a strong tendency for wanderlust. She could spend a fairly good amount of time in Arélenimbë, but when one of Kári's reincarnations died she would need to spend time away from the Vale. Ciaran of course always accompanied her, but she would travel far and wide, finding all sorts of wonders and pockets of interest all over the Nightlands.
In the course of doing this, Elená started finding individuals that she could enlist to keep track of places and situations of interest. As a result, two things came about, the building of a network of adventuring souls who fed information back to Elená, but also a legend of a singular wandering adventurer, the Wanderer.
Now of course, because Elená was the cause and centre of this legend, when it grew big enough to catalyze, it formed around her, granting her a new type of arcane powers.
One unexpected side effect of Ciaran's presence in Elená's travels however is the the legend of the Wanderer has two images, a male one ass well as a female one.
Elená started to look closely into this arcane aspect she had gained, studying it's form and where it came from, thus becoming a researcher into how belief interacted with the Arcane, and making one of her side projects on her wanderings that of tracking down as many of the Eldritch Entities formed in this manner.
As an aside, some of Elená's earliest contacts, acting as gathering points for her network, are her own niece and nephew, Veriél and Damián. Veriél's location in Endáelenimbë means she is in an important position in the defenses keeping the South at bay, and the fast growth of the [Southern Kingdom] means the position Damián her there as Head Gatekeeper in the capital city means he is in prime place to hear what people coming and going are saying.
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In concerns with the Stucky fusion story, Elená eventually enlists both of them into her Wanderer network, after they have recovered from the after effects of their time in Celanyi's keeping ( not to mention the removal of the remnants of various enchantments and curses on [Bucky].
(In Networlds terms, treatment of [Bucky] and [Steve] is actually an upgrade to level 9 NPC Attendants, from their original level 7.)
In the aftermath of Nightfall, and Elená's journey home after her capture and subsequent escape from enemy forces, she found she had a strong tendency for wanderlust. She could spend a fairly good amount of time in Arélenimbë, but when one of Kári's reincarnations died she would need to spend time away from the Vale. Ciaran of course always accompanied her, but she would travel far and wide, finding all sorts of wonders and pockets of interest all over the Nightlands.
In the course of doing this, Elená started finding individuals that she could enlist to keep track of places and situations of interest. As a result, two things came about, the building of a network of adventuring souls who fed information back to Elená, but also a legend of a singular wandering adventurer, the Wanderer.
Now of course, because Elená was the cause and centre of this legend, when it grew big enough to catalyze, it formed around her, granting her a new type of arcane powers.
One unexpected side effect of Ciaran's presence in Elená's travels however is the the legend of the Wanderer has two images, a male one ass well as a female one.
Elená started to look closely into this arcane aspect she had gained, studying it's form and where it came from, thus becoming a researcher into how belief interacted with the Arcane, and making one of her side projects on her wanderings that of tracking down as many of the Eldritch Entities formed in this manner.
As an aside, some of Elená's earliest contacts, acting as gathering points for her network, are her own niece and nephew, Veriél and Damián. Veriél's location in Endáelenimbë means she is in an important position in the defenses keeping the South at bay, and the fast growth of the [Southern Kingdom] means the position Damián her there as Head Gatekeeper in the capital city means he is in prime place to hear what people coming and going are saying.
***
In concerns with the Stucky fusion story, Elená eventually enlists both of them into her Wanderer network, after they have recovered from the after effects of their time in Celanyi's keeping ( not to mention the removal of the remnants of various enchantments and curses on [Bucky].
(In Networlds terms, treatment of [Bucky] and [Steve] is actually an upgrade to level 9 NPC Attendants, from their original level 7.)