A Whisper to the Shrineborn One

[Sh'ozak Ma'hk'null]

A prideful show.

Our Oathborn Daughter, our most complete success yet. Once an Infiltrator of Ours, by their names she is Lauren La'Row, and the shell Charente. A shell of power, once belonging to the Firebringers, and then fallen into our grasp. It housed a powerful weapon, and though she was bound to us by Infiltrator, she was also bound to the shell by oath. Darklings possess a strange pattern, which they call Honor or Righteousness. At once, it appeared to be an illogical pattern, but we found those bound by Honor to be more formidable than those who are not. It is paired often with a second pattern, which is Discipline. Discipline does not differ from our own understanding, control and regulation of the mind to augment the body. Yet, when pared with this Honor, you will find yourself matched against a Darkling most capable, a true and severe threat. La'Row was bound in the same way, by Honor, to the shell. This binding extended not only to her, but to others within the shell, and beyond into past, wherein generations of them were bound in the same way.

After the Collapse, several consequences of our failures proliferated, the foulest of these being machines designed by the Cursed Shells to hunt out Infiltrators. The result of these has led to the decline of the Infiltrators, and had added difficulty in finding metals and machines to rebuild the shell Charente after damage. A proposition existed yet, and the Infiltrators substituted independent growths of our flesh for those metals. As the shell aged and saw battle again and again, so did the flesh within grow, and soon it seemed as akin to us. Our flesh within, yet not our carapace without. Instead, a carapace of metals.

In these times, we sought to explore boundaries between Dark and Light, to better combat our enemy. We had discovered a Greymind, who appeared Light among the Dark, but Dark among the Light, being truly neither. Through the Greymind, we further understood many of the boundaries of understanding. The lines that form perspective divide many, yet still can be woven into fine veils and exquisite gates. A Darkling experiences events in single forms, because a Dark mind harbors only one conscious. They do not form Archons, Mindnodes, or Minds as we know them. They are singular, and must function on beginnings and ends. This, and other things, we have learned.

With the binding of Honor, our understanding of the boundaries of mind, and the need to further rebuild the shell, we came to a convenient solution that allowed us to put into practice what we only held within dreams. We unified the flesh within the shell, and designed into it a bridge that would span from flesh, through Infiltrator, and among La'Row. We would bring into the flesh a mind, and through this mind it would grow as we grow. We saw only success as we brought the experiment to be. Through growth, knowledge, and this binding called Honor, the Infiltrator La'Row became the Keeper Ki'Shar, our Oathborn Daughter, brought to be by Sh'ozak the Survivor. They are now a mind among the Lightmind, and can be called to just as we can. They bear a powerful shell, being one of the Firebringers, and the weapon of mind that is Honor now becomes a fang with which we can strike with.