03-23-2026, 06:22 PM
Dorian sat down in a chair. This was all very meh. They had good ideas. "So you think that someone has some means of controlling an ancient creature no one's heard of and the Atharim only know of because of the singular device that is currently lost with the form Regus of the Atharim, that controls them, is out there, and someone used said ancient device to send an incorporeal entity after a man as an assassin? I won't stop you from looking but the means of controling an Ijiraq is few and far between. I can almost guarantee you even the Atharim only know of one, and that's only because Aria told Nox what was controling the one sent after the Ascendancy. And to my knowledge Nox and Oriena have not had any luck finding that tablet. And when the Wicked Truth is involved I'm more inclined to say this was a feeding gone wrong. I think the bigger question is why did the Ijira leave a burnt body behind. Because as you said, there should be more bodies if that's how a normal kill goes -- which I'm not saying it is, but my gut says that's not how it looks. I more or less imagine there is nothing left after a complete feeding. Why leave behind a body when you can leave behind a pile of ash and blow it away in the wind?"