#also can we talk about how k.assandra went through all of this and never knew the truth of why she was given this task?

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Immortality, Duty, and Forming Connections

K.assandra is constantly reminded by A.letheia that she is doomed to an existence of losing everyone she’s ever known and loved, anyone she’ll ever know and love in the future. It is repeated over and over in F.ate of A.tlantis and in T.hose W.ho Are T.reasured DLCs that her fate is doomed to outlive those she cares about. Aletheia does tell her she will have to leave her home and those she loves to find the artifacts (later referred to as p.ieces of e.den) and keep them from falling into human hands. 

But the thing is, A.letheia never said K.assandra can’t have people in her life. That she has to be alone. While she does tell her that K.ass has to keep what she sees a secret, she can still make friends, have lovers etc.

She chooses not to. Or at least tries to fight against it. After her last connection to her mortal life dies, she’s done with it. Sells the A.drestria to the person who became the first mate (As K.ass took over as captain and commander following B.arnabas’ death) and leaves it all behind. 

It hurts at first, those same hallucinations she had when in solitary become ghosts that haunt her in her solitude. Second guessing what she’s seeing and hearing for a few months or years, she doesn’t know. Time loses meaning. And then eventually without someone to say her name because gods knows A.letheia won’t doe it, her name loses meaning too. 

Her solitude was her choice to protect herself. But at what cost?

Her duty becomes all she has for awhile. A long while. It takes centuries upon centuries before she finally finds it in herself to make a connection again at the insistence of A.letheia when K.assandra meets E.ivor. She opens up a little to it, grows fond of the vikingr, but her social skills had eroded so much that being around crowds when it’s not a fight terrifies her. Her social anxieties she had in small amounts in her mortal years become nearly debilitating. 

She tries again years (decades?) later. And then again later after that. But then she goes back to isolating herself because she loses every time. Every damn time. 

A.letheia warned her. K.assandra tried to walk away. And that is the crux of it. This was never a hero’s epic for K.assandra. 

This is a horror story.