Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24530992-20140921041500/@comment-5583506-20140921224605

''Someone is calling on me once again? ''he thought. ''Is this like the last time? No. This time it is different... I don't feel dead.''

That's because you are not, boomed a familiar voice.

Varg peered into the endless Void from where he had heard the voice. Sithis?

''It is I, my son. Your father... and your mother... your everything.''

''Why am I here? What happened to me?''

The voice of Sithis laughed soundly with the disharmony of a symphony in ice. ''You over-exerted yourself, my son. You used your powers too carelessly. You are not the first one to do so however. Your brother had to learn it the hard way... same as you...''

Varg swallowed. ''Sidion? Did he... suffer through that, as well?''

''That he did. He claimed that the metamorphosis was as painful as a birth in which the mother has to deliver herself. But he managed to overcome it, and came out stronger and more powerful than ever... until you killed him... It surprised me actually.''

Varg didn't know what to make of the situation. So what exactly happened back there?

''You have evolved. That's what happened. See it as a bird, leaving its nest for the first time. It has to jump out of it and expect a hard fall if they fail to take flight. You have taken a hard fall, yet you have not taken flight. Sidion made too much use of his own powers in the beginning as well. He used it so many times and so frequently, his body couldn't handle the pressure and so... he broke free from his cocoon and became... a monster. Now it is up to you, Varg. You are now within your own cocoon and you want to break free, but do you know what you will have evolved into?''

Somehow he already knew the answer. The firstborn son of Sithis, he said. ''The power to manifest myself as whatever I want and whomever I want, in order to deceive and best my foes. To turn light into darkness and to elude the danger.''

Sithis seemed pleased with the answer. ''Indeed. You may have been born with but a fragment of my powers, Varg, but I hereby bestow upon you the powers worthy of my firstborn son. You will find that the freedom your shapeshifting is yours for the taking, no longer will it become a burden on your body, turn into a haze of smoke with a single thought, extinguish the lights from where you see fit. ''

Varg smiled. ''Thanks. This will come well in hand to stop Molag Bal. But... how do I return?''

Sithis laughed once more. ''You, my almighty son, should be able to come and go as you wish, yet you do not even know how to exit the Void? Whenever you are ready, you will be able to leave here when you want to.''

Varg turned his back from the Void and focused on the world he used to belong to, wishing deeply to return to it. He was ready to leave.

One more thing, Varg, warned Sithis. ''Even though I felt Sidion's presence leave his body in the moment you shut his eyes, I cannot feel him now. Sidion belongs with me. He belongs with the Void, yet I cannot sense his presence here. And I would feel if something filled my Void.''

''What are you saying? ''asked Varg before he started to dematerialize into particles the same way that had happened to him back on Nirn. He was shifting back to his own realm.

Sithis' voice darkened. I am saying that if Sidion isn't here with me, he cannot be dead...