Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

[Talon Tiger Dino]

All the Names are super old and skilled in all lores that why they are Names. Assume all the Names have 5-6 in every lore.

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But we are talking about Sacraments Baldomare took as a mortal.

 

[Nevermort]

All the Names are super old and skilled in all lores that why they are Names. Assume all the Names have 5-6 in every lore.

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Why Baldomare would take Mareinette Sacrament instead of her own? Or instead of Sacrament of any other adept? Remember that at the time there were thousands of adepts , there is not much reason to assume that Mareinette was her only friend, or that they did not become friends many years after Baldomare become Name.

 

[Venerable Ro]

Here's a thought to think, consider the nature of endings and resolutions, destinations at the end of paths.

Mareinette delved deeper into Grail than any other Know or Name, and certainly was a favorite of that ever-thirsting Hour if anyone was. Every indulgence sampled, every sensation enjoyed, every temptation welcomed. She had the run of the Cathedral itself, all to herself. So where did that path end?

Desiccation, withering, a desperate void that reduced proud nobility to licking a stone like an animal.

Mareinette has already done the "revel in debaucherous hedonism" bit, she did it to the exhaustion of the Red Cathedral itself. She's a creature of habit as any immortal is of course, so she'll do it again without much convincing, but I believe she could be tempted to try something different if it meant a different outcome.

We've never actually talked to her you know, (just like we never really talked to The Master) all of our impressions are by-the-large strongly colored by metaknowledge and layers of accreted speculation as to the intentions of the Grail-Name. But we never actually asked, for example, what her goals/desires/objectives are. We put her in a barn and hoped that minimal interaction would make the QM forget about her as a game piece, or something.

Anyway, back to Cadence and Mareinette. Our Lady Of Wires teaches what she knows and enacts what she teaches, her perspective of Grail isn't so much a rut in a road as a canyon sunk in a desert. Cadence needs to know who she's talking to, yes, but she also needs to actively express and enact her own understanding of Love so that the old might learn something new. Call it enlightened self-interest on Mareinette's part, above all else she does not want to go back to The Cathedral.

(To express Cadence we must speak in terms of songs played far too many times on the radio.)


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What would be more tempting to one endlessly dying of thirst than a wellspring that might never run dry, a Principle that flourishes and renews the more it is enacted, a Lore that Satisfies?


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Deep in her eyes
I think I see the future
I realize this is my last chance
She took my arm
I don't know how it happened
We took the floor and she said


"Oh, don't you dare look back
Just keep your eyes on me"
I said, "You're holding back"
She said, "Shut up and dance with me"


Am I reaching? Oh I am absolutely reaching, reaching for stars just to check and see if one might just be within my grasp. It's possible, many things are possible, especially if people are properly motivated. Mareinette is dreadfully aware of what it's like to be alone and hopeless, she's motivated to avoid retracing her steps back down into that pit and presumably wise enough to perceive an out if it becomes available. It's a lifestyle thing, Grail is never satisfied by definition according to her enactment, if Mareinette simply retreads the same interpretations she's doomed to end up at the same conclusion. Cadence breaks with those patterns, she just needs to live up to her potential, embody it, so that she can be Love's truest inspiration.

Cadence needs support and encouragement, along with honest challenge fit to lead her unto growth. Cosseting would leave her unprepared for the harshness lying in wait to savage her Principle, but Love is not only a soft and delicate thing.

Love is relentless, Love protects and endures, Love will bleed for her child,

Spoiler: And will make you bleed all the more!

 

[ses]

Just finished the Grail Apostle run. It was totally on the first try and not the second after dying to season of sickness in literally the first 10 minutes.

Copper Secateur will feast forever in the high halls of the Mansus, while Jelloloaf is Nowhere at all.

Was a lot of fun, I had never touched the Apostle mode for the longest time because honestly the idea of a Long sending constant attacks and escalating stressed me out too much to even try. Turns out that, uh, you can just ignore Lady Tryphon the whole game and she's basically harmless?! If you're already a proud member of the Church of Malfean Stealth intrigue attacks do basically nothing? "Lol, lmao, you exposed my followers so they produce notoriety whenever they do stuff? Whatever will I do?"

 

[Talon Tiger Dino]

Yes, yes, bury Mareinette in Love. Velvet used Love to beat Biedde/the Colonel via Fluttershy, Velvet gave Love a perfect wedding to make it stronger, and hell, Velvet even buoyed Love in a History not our own when she took her first SH Sacrament Action.
Velvet just can't see Love levels like she does Lore levels because she cannot into Harmony, is all.

Love can also compel you to burn the world, but I don't think Cadance is going that path.