Grim Troll
Star
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2016
It was the beginning of the cycle, as the great blooms of algae from the circling waters of the city began to glow by their own timing, their glow less a matter of light as the surface dwellers understood, and a matter of radiance in those spectrums that only those blessed to see in the depths of the world really knew. Yellows, violets and deep reds similar to spilled blood mingled with blues and greens, signaling the beginning of another day, another time when plots and schemes and civility replaced open knives in the back and overt violence. Too many witnesses around.
Outside of the Tor'rret compound, the light bounced and struck the crystal spires, a veritable forest of carefully placed and shaped crystal, refracting and reflecting among themselves, a maze of brilliance and confusion, where one must know the way as one would know their most prized possession to find their way through to the compound proper. Otherwise, as one could attest, it make wandering through the Crystal Grove a matter of luck, trying to find oneself through the brilliant sheen.
There, amid crystals meant to amplify and enhance the house members psionic potential, there were several groups, all of them vying against each other, all working to mutual advantage, for such were the ways of the Drow. Bound by blood and power, and more the latter then the former for with it came psychic conditioning to be loyal to the house and Matron Mother.
Still, there were other, small relationships inside of the house, power blocs not easily forgotten nor ignored. Chief amongst them, and unusual in Drow society as a whole, belonged to the Eldest Daughter, reclining in her room with the members of her harem.... so far almost all members of her own family. Which really, made some whisper.... how strong, how confident could she be if she had to poach family members?
Elsewhere, one of her few relations around her own age reclines, alone for the moment, but at the same time, shoring up her mental defenses from her sisters mental thrall.
Outside of the Tor'rret compound, the light bounced and struck the crystal spires, a veritable forest of carefully placed and shaped crystal, refracting and reflecting among themselves, a maze of brilliance and confusion, where one must know the way as one would know their most prized possession to find their way through to the compound proper. Otherwise, as one could attest, it make wandering through the Crystal Grove a matter of luck, trying to find oneself through the brilliant sheen.
There, amid crystals meant to amplify and enhance the house members psionic potential, there were several groups, all of them vying against each other, all working to mutual advantage, for such were the ways of the Drow. Bound by blood and power, and more the latter then the former for with it came psychic conditioning to be loyal to the house and Matron Mother.
Still, there were other, small relationships inside of the house, power blocs not easily forgotten nor ignored. Chief amongst them, and unusual in Drow society as a whole, belonged to the Eldest Daughter, reclining in her room with the members of her harem.... so far almost all members of her own family. Which really, made some whisper.... how strong, how confident could she be if she had to poach family members?
Elsewhere, one of her few relations around her own age reclines, alone for the moment, but at the same time, shoring up her mental defenses from her sisters mental thrall.