The Good End
Well, time flies. I think it's about time I actually post something here, too! What's happened in a month? Well, there was a Christmas vacation during which I played some weird video game about world-destroying mimes, university started, and, oh yeah, there was this tournament
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1. Sath doesn't mind risking his life, but his ambition requires him to stay alive for it. So ironically - the only death he wouldn't find ignominous, in some way, is one that comes in old age, at the end of a life well lived. Violently or not? He can't quite decide.
2. Become immortal. Sath's a lot of things, but he isn't a hypocrite, about that anyway.
3. The passing moment when the Eternal City comes crashing down, and he feels that last twinge of regret at the destruction of so much knowledge and understanding before he returns the Continous to its natural state.
4. His awesome, mismatched armour. His sword? It's pretty good one, but being just one piece, a lot easier to replace, plus it amuses him how people assume it's irreplaceable to him.
5. It's a toss-up between the first time he killed something big, nasty and hairy, and the first time he read a book. And I'm not sure which one came first.
6. The rage and impotent despair he felt when he first realized his teachers peddled superstition and halftruths, and knew nothing worthwhile about the world.
7. Sath would have felt there was no one among his immediate peers or guardians he could learn anything worthwhile from. So he probably looked up to literary epic heroes, for a while, before deciding to just be Sath instead.
8. A universe where he has no place, and crucially, cannot make a place for himself.
9. The Eternals.
10. He'd laugh at this, too.
11. If he had any, he ran out of them during his captivity. So... after all this time, Tersis is the only person alive who genuinely knows him, which gives them a kind of awkward, dysfunctional bond. Lately, he's also taken a liking to Gina.
12. Sath mainly regards females with a kind of mild, cheerful condescension, but he's saved his share of Serpine princesses from evil sorcerers who turn into giant hairy apes, if you get my meaning. But I think his first time would have been at an even younger age, with an older woman of high standing. (Incidentally, once he escapes the Eternal City to return to his empire, life will get very interesting for him, since a considerable portion of the remaining great Serpine houses have taken up the habit of claiming their descent from him.)
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