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6/20/2025, 2:59:28 PM
>Ariadne's Thread
>"You will fear no longer. You will be audacity incarnate. You will laugh in Her face and stride Her domain as though it were your own."
>The Spider offered her hands. Maugasen took it.
>The trials that followed broke him. The terror of his first jump through the Veil nearly killed him. He fled when he heard Yhunadrann's screams cut short by crimson pincers. Again, when Furon's corpse returned soulless. Again. And again. But always he returned, addicted to the deadliest defiance.
>Now that he had tasted rebellion, that thrilling sacrilege of mocking the Thirsting One with every breathless leap, he could no longer stop.
>His final descent into the temple brought a new awakening. Another instinct stirred within him: the desire to protect, to guard his fellow spiders. This one would have been swallowed, if he hadn't turned back and pulled him from oblivion.
>"You will be Ariadne's Thread", the Great Spider declared.
>It took a few real battles for Maugasen to understand that he soon would not be able to leave this path. This sombre thought slowed him and caused his end. But such was his will to protect that his pulsing spirit stone was attached to a special wraith-golem. Since this day, Maugasen became Ariadne's Thread, he who guides the Spiders...
>"You will fear no longer. You will be audacity incarnate. You will laugh in Her face and stride Her domain as though it were your own."
>The Spider offered her hands. Maugasen took it.
>The trials that followed broke him. The terror of his first jump through the Veil nearly killed him. He fled when he heard Yhunadrann's screams cut short by crimson pincers. Again, when Furon's corpse returned soulless. Again. And again. But always he returned, addicted to the deadliest defiance.
>Now that he had tasted rebellion, that thrilling sacrilege of mocking the Thirsting One with every breathless leap, he could no longer stop.
>His final descent into the temple brought a new awakening. Another instinct stirred within him: the desire to protect, to guard his fellow spiders. This one would have been swallowed, if he hadn't turned back and pulled him from oblivion.
>"You will be Ariadne's Thread", the Great Spider declared.
>It took a few real battles for Maugasen to understand that he soon would not be able to leave this path. This sombre thought slowed him and caused his end. But such was his will to protect that his pulsing spirit stone was attached to a special wraith-golem. Since this day, Maugasen became Ariadne's Thread, he who guides the Spiders...
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