#have made orin and asperia obsessed with continuing to frame so many of their achievements around the other even in absence

[diredeliverance]

I think sometimes about the way that in the aftermath of the situation between Asperia and Gortash Orin's claim on Minthara and dominance over her winds up feeling on some level like a statement. You, my foolish slaughter-kin, let yourself be corrupted by delusions of care and partnership, made yourself weak enough to exploit; I know how to get what I want in the way our Father would sanction: through force and the absolute imposition of my will. Another thing she sets right in the wake of the overthrow of a debauched, blasphemous leader dragging the cult to the brink of heresy and ruin. Always the same statement with Orin- addressed, as always, to a recipient who can't be reached.