Greetings Aetolians!

Today has been a wonderfully sunny and beautiful day! I was minding my
business over in the Dryad gardens, taking a break from a lot of
harvesting and enjoying the wonderful sun above me. Then, out of no
where, who should appear? But Daskalos of the Lumifaeries! I was told
that I would be unenemied after I was "shadowed". I wondered to myself
what this "shadowing" was until after it was done.

Within moments of it happening, I saw my eyes change and my skin burn to
the sun I loved and enjoyed so much. I cried out in agony as Daskalos
attempted to lay his hands on me, healing me some...trying to show what
little compassion he had. I had never been like this..I had never felt
this such pain before. I couldn't even move around to find my herbs fast
enough to heal..and I said, "I can't even hardly heal..I'm in no way
prepared", since I am most certainly not a fighter or one who cares for
them. He said, "Go inside and hide from the sun." I did this..out of not
knowing what in the world was happening to my body.

I ran quickly to Enorian and went indoors to diagnose myself fully and
figure out what plagued me. I looked and..much to my surprise, I am at
odds with the sun! What had I become? I was given the part of the
consanguine existence that was the hardest...not being able to stay in
the sun without being in pain or going blind..even catching on fire! How
could this be? I did not take the embrace...so I asked my guild and
friends about this. They said it is a punishment the luminaries deal
out. I asked Daskalos and he said, "It makes you cower in the shadows
like they do" about it..they being the consanguine. But..the thing I
don't understand about it is - Why would you want someone to be like the
ones you hate so dearly and persecute? Do you find it as some sort of
torture? Some sort of way to teach people not to test your ways?


If I wanted to be a consanguine, I could just go ask one to embrace me.
That's their lifestyle, not that of the luminary. Putting someone in the
shadows when you represent light..just seems backwards. I would think
you'd want to shine brightly and have them emerge from the shadows and
learn the ways of light. Rather, we just burn and are tormented by the
sun. And why was I given this? Because I spoke my mind and defended my
friends. Is that a crime? Maybe a crime against the luminaries for
showing a side that so many already see..but a crime enough to punish me
with an almost incurable illness? Am I deemed so below you that I was
brave enough to speak my mind, even if I was going to likely die? I
expected to be killed really, not have been put in the shadows that I
watched my father in for so long. You think they scare me? You think I
cower in them? I may not stay out in the sun to bake my scales, but I
don't go inside just to hide. I will certainly still walk when I need to
and go about my business. I did nothing wrong, so maybe I will grow
stronger from this.

And don't bother posting a rebuttle, just go ahead and re-enemy me since
I know it'll come..and then shadow me again. It'll just prove my point
as I stated before that anyone who says otherwise is made some sort of
enemy. Even if it is not by the actual branding but by simply sticking
your noses in the air whenever you see them. I was already an enemy
before I even posted and will likely always be since I was one of the
ones who always stood out like a sore thumb in your group. People ask me
why I never went Luminary after the Priests were disbanded, I just point
at what I've seen and been through and they are quiet and don't ask
again.

-Solaria

Penned by my hand on the 7th of Severin, in the year 137 MA.