Sword of Symphonies

The first disappearance was a matter of money. A competitor who needed to disappear at the right time in order to clear the way for new growth. It was also an experiment, a test to see if stories passed down from one head of the household to the next were true.

The second disappearance was a matter of fear. A way of sweeping away the tracks.

The third disappearance was another matter of money.

The fourth disappearance was a matter of envy.

The fifth would have been a matter of honor.

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Original music by Kathleen~!

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Music by Kathleen!

We’ve talked a little about the concept of value. I think now you understand why. You see, as human beings, value is something we can pick up and shape with our own hands, define and redefine as we like. It may be the redefining that is the most beautiful part – the ability to look at something’s value to us and decide for ourselves that it needs to change.

We are not Noble Demons. We are not shackled to value.

That is, unless we decide to be. Then, the only difference between us and the demons is the devastating power.

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You may remember the Countess of the Silver River, whose love of dominion made it possible for Tissa to convince her to cease her campaign of terror. Of course you know the Ambassador in Pearl, who fought more or less alongside mortals in the hunt for a common foe. Some of you may even know the Baron of the Gallery, whose collection of unique objects recently had a new sword added to it by some canny adventurers.

They are powerful. They are practically gods. But if one knows the right thing to offer, it’s not impossible to make a deal with a Noble Demon.

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Value is a funny concept. Somehow human beings turned something abstract into something concrete – what was once just the notion that something meant something to someone became a measure of worth in real, absolute terms. How much does it mean to them? Not everything can be measured in numbers, but we hold the ruler up to more and more objects, events, circumstances, and concepts anyway.

In that regard, we might be the irrational ones.

I doubt a demon ever cared how much something cost.

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Music by Kathleen!

People are full of stories. When you get right down to it, we live and breathe them. So it stands to reason that any place that is full of people is doubly full of stories. Some of them are anecdotes, some of them are tales, and some of them are even legends. The more people there are in any given place, the deeper and more beautiful the library of that place, which just might be its greatest treasure.

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We’ve spoken before about the Noble Demons and their obsession, the single beacon of light that illuminates everything they think and do. The Radiant Prince exists to acquire, with no thought at all for what he acquires, from whom, or why. Whether or not he is even capable of questioning his urge to hoard, he doesn’t. The Lady of the River’s Origin, though she claims to hate uncleanliness, builds her entire life around corruption, around seeking it out and destroying it, and without it she would have nothing.

Did you know? Humans can be the same way.

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Original music by Kathleen~!

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Once upon a time, there was a Duke in Stageport. It’s true. Once upon a time, so long ago that the city as it stood was wrapped in a wall of stone to defend it from neighboring city-states, there was a Duke in Stageport.

In fact, there was an army in Stageport. Not like the Crusaders, mind you, nothing like that. An army hired and paid for by this Duke, retained in order to preserve the city as it was, unless there was an opportunity for it to grow. Then this army would become an invading force, taking whatever the city wanted by force. At spearpoint, the city grew and grew, swallowing several smaller communities around it.

This was how things went in the old world. Always forward, never back.

Welcome to Sword of Symphonies.

Original music by Kathleen~!

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