☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- You are, of course, right, but... is everything really that simple? Especially when it comes to love. More often than not, we don't choose who or what to love. Hmm. Hmm-hmm-hmm... You've led me into philosophical depths, but I'm not very good at that – on the contrary, I'm more likely to bash my head against a wall than say something profound and insightful. Okay, let's get back to this Eyr of yours now.

—Perhaps not so simple. We will never know the whole story and what was in his heart. Perhaps, besides love, there was also duty, fear, hopelessness, and many other things... —a shrug. —And you're wrong about yourself – as I already told you, the Kreidean or "authentic" philosophy is based on everyday, mundane motives. For example, how we just read a book and gained our own understanding of the things described in it, and then discussed it. And depth and insight are the domain of ignorant, pretentious intellectuals from some kind of scientific academy. The wisest man in Kreidear, as I was told, lived in a barrel, so...

The book about Eyr contains information about her origins.

After reading this book, the character receives +50% to affinity of their choice.

- There are so many names that I've never even heard of, but the fact that she was an animist is interesting. Perhaps that's what allowed her to find harmony with the world around her.

—What kind of names? —he glanced over her shoulder, but realized that he didn't have glasses to make out the letters. —Well, Gungnir is Eyr's adoptive father and teacher, and the teacher of all future warriors of the Baldr school. From what we learned by translating the hieroglyphs in the desert, he was a great man in every way, with a difficult fate and life. And animism, yes, I think it played a significant role in her life. It's funny, isn't it: Eyr went through life wanting to take revenge on her teacher, but in fact, her calling didn't find its goal, but instead found it in continuing the Baldr story far beyond its native borders. Truly, life sometimes presents plots that you won't find in any work of fiction.

—...Unfortunately, I couldn't find any additional information about the school I chose, — apparently, its creators were too lazy to add an epilogue...