### The Speech of [Saint Altressa](Corvanis/NPCs/Church%20of%20Mytheria/Saint%20Altressa.md) _Special thanks to [[Books]] for the transcription from **[Saints and Sinners S1E11](Saints%20and%20Sinners.md)**_ - # >[!info|no-i clean]- ### Saint Altressa's speech > >SA: Once my name was uttered in such a way, thy common tongue calleth to me. Pristine thy aura like sainted Thomas reminded me, but you are not dear Thomas. You have not the veneer of his age. Young and foreign is the lilt in your voice. Who has come for me bearing the aura of my friend? > >Moss: I am Moss. I wield this spear for your friend, we found it up top. > >SA: You have ventured far below the sealed fortress. You have risked the darkness being free of its shackles. You have sought me here in this place. But why? Why have you come and risked so much? > >Moss: To be frank… I wasn’t always a believer of Mytheria. It was a simply a job for money but only discovering the secrets behind it, its eye opening. Were down here because we were tasked to investigate the fort and its secrets that it has. Which in case we found you. > >SA: And whom is thy employer? Who has summon thy down into these depths of dark? > >Moss: We are employed by a man named Rota. While we do not know his superiorities… > >SA: The grace of the church has not forgotten me? They have sent for me after all… many years of despair have laid in my heart with woe. My work here is not finished. The evil is held within must not be aloud to escape and although thy noble search is to be commended it is foolish if not tempered by wisdom. You have come so far and have opened the door, closed to me. I seek thy a task and thy shall receive my boon and I shall return with thy to the surface. > >Moss: As you wish.. what is your task? > >SA: My task is simple yet difficult. The evil here I have held at bay deep beneath the earth but never strong enough to overcome it. Matched we were. Even despite the success of those upon the surface. The last remnants of this foreign god still whispering its lies into thy ear. The ones above, those that faced its dark sermon silenced it. But here it shall finally be destroyed. With your aid, it may be felled and removed. Purged from this realm in Mytheria’s name and I shall finally return it home. > >Moss: How do you require my aid? > >SA: You must seek the creature further within. Follow the tendrils of rot and corruption. Go and face it at my behest and in my place cut the head from this creature and that this place shall finally know its peace. > >Moss: We have reinforcements. > >SA: Would it be in preference that we should await such reinforcement but I fear that already some of this essence has escaped and has found the few of its followers that still infect our land. An unfortunate side affect of your noble search but one that you will be blamed for if we destroy the essence that still remains. Time is of the essence wielder of the spear of Saint Thomas.  We must be assured of the creature’s death to see its body rendered in holy flame. Burnt like ash as white tribute before the Weeping Maiden. > >Axel: You’ve seen many things down here… What was your sin? > >SA: It was my sin that allowed this sickness to fester for I sought knowledge how to free my dear friend from the prism of divinity. > >Axel: Why would you do such a thing? Did you not want her to be place there? Taken there? > >SA: It is not that I did not wish for her to know the joys of one who could do so much good but it was never her wish for such power. It was a sacrifice that she made to ensure her survival of all. One that I felt was too great and a wrong that was done against her and there are yet secrets of the world that even Mytheria’s grace could not reveal. So I tried… I tried to find an answer. I discovered not but this.. *she gestured to her eyes all around her* seeing the folly of my questions I sealed myself in this chamber. MY faith keeping the darkness in check… or so I thought. But there are those that have slipped and fallen from Mytheria’s learned path. More and more foreigners their presence emboldening my already potent adversary. My sin was that I loved her too much to let her go. I see that now. But there will be a time for ruminations and there is a time for action. Are you ready to act? > >Axel: Yes. > >SA: Gaze into the light of Mytheria….