The Council
After the incident, your mind had fractured in nine additional ways into nine additional versions of yourself, all with a voice. We will provide you with the insight and ability to deal with your world and its trials. Please allow us a moment for introductions.
Quinquivirs
The Five Rulers, we will provide and interpret information on the reality around you. Reality is a messy set of data points blasted at the mind, and we can properly discriminate between important things and the unimportant, if you will let us. See the smaller details in operations and notice the patterns others don’t. Be attuned to the world, and vigilant of its’ changes.
The battlefield, your ‘kingdom’, is not to be neglected. The grounds themselves may be a powerful weapon or force of protection, if you know how to use them. It will take quick thinking and a sharp eye to overcome many of the ordeals you will face.
Imminence
You had a talent before us, one that assisted you during your time in the military. A way to respond to incoming threats seconds before they happened. This skill has saved your life more times than you care to remember, and now he is granted a voice to speak next to the rest of us. Time is a cruel thing, constantly creeping up and changing reality without your permission. The afterimage will not speak much, but when he does they are warnings to be heeded.
In battle, he will boost your ability to gauge incoming attacks and react accordingly. Out of battle, he will provide insight when you’re about to step on verbal landmines or warn you of sudden violent escalation.
Volksgeist
Alternatively “The Spirit Of The People”, to make sense of this world you must be attuned to your kin. To be in touch with the people you live with, and understand their culture and feelings that permeate their collective spirit. You are not a foreigner, and you will not be allowed to act like one. The ‘now’ exists because of the ‘before’, everything that came before you exists in a chain and you may grow to recognize it.
My homestead and it's fields shall become your fortress. The sown seeds shall take root, let them become an impenetrable bulwark, an ensnaring bramble field, or even a grove of sustenance. With me you'll outlast any siege and protect what matters most.
Faith
Morgan, right now you’re at an important point in your spiritual growth where things appear bleak. Aware of what's been inflicted on your people, you have every urge to hide yourself away or strike violently at their monstrous forms. I call on you to resist these urges, Morgan, to stand alone and be the person God needs you to be. Do not fall for the trap of hating your people, they suffer as you do. Love them and seek to do right by them. The devil’s work seems to have taken an important victory. Your people are afflicted, ill, in poverty, and dying. Clearly, there is much work to be done.
You will be targeted uniquely for your struggle against lucifer’s hold. To protect you and lead your way, I provide you with cleansing fire. Stomp on the demons’ throats until they pray for salvation, and make them fear you as a Soldier of God.
Second Self
The world breaks in such a stupid way and you despair? You, a bright blue bug with a mind split nine ways like a birthday cake? The line between tragedy and comedy is very thin, but Morgan, you are VERY funny.
You could call me many things, Fool, Prick, Bastard, Court Jester, Retard Wrangler; but I really do have your best interests in mind, even if it'll take time for you to realize it. You will need a firm voice to steady your hands and shelter your ego in the days to come, and you will need someone that knows you like I do.
Confused? You should be, disorientation's my specialty, and not just for you either. Tell me who, when, and where, and I'll have them falling on their own swords and splattered against the wall in no time.
Gnosis
You may recognize you're different, but you are still just a man. The past life you lived is immutable. Your experiences molded you into what you are now, what happened in St. May is just another experience you have to come to terms with. The world is still turning even if the world you see is twisted. You will use your past experience to get through whatever comes next: Remember every detail of the memories you need. Suppress ones you don’t.
Conflict will arise, so draw on me. The depths of memory is boundless, and will become a raging ocean that crushes anything beneath the tides of time. Because the memories of water will outlast everything else.
Heroics
The motivation to accomplish what must be done. Use me to direct your team, or the rest of your inner council to these ends. The trials in your life will require you to be a leader, even in your current condition. I will find you your strength to get up again at each of your lowest points, and bring your glory to new heights.
My leadership takes the form of strong offense and stronger support. Your team will end up doing you proud, so long as you’re there to offer the same to them.
Vigor
It's revulsion you feel as you see nothing but twisted creatures all around you. Everything about them is wrong, and yet, the girl wants you to somehow abstain from violently removing the monsters you see everywhere from your world. Fine, stay your hand for now. Let these feelings gather. When the time comes, channel all of your fear, anger, and disgust, and return it to the monsters with your knife.
Kill what you can. Maim what you can't. Strike with lightning, fry your enemies and leave them unable to do anything but twitch as their bodies crumble from within.
