314 Sunspear

"I sense discomfort welling within your heart," said Helius.

Li looked at the sun god, but the sun god was staring straight ahead, into the collection of floating blue orbs that once fueled the lives of an entire race of angels. 

"Perceptive, are we?" said Li. "Is that one of your powers also?"

"Life and emotion are two strands of the same thread," said Helius. "The worry I sense in you, it is true, then. As a player, you must have faced the cycle of the Chthonia already. You understand its scope. You are beginning to feel concern."

"You know, I am curious about one thing. How much of your past life do you remember? When you were not in this world?" said Li. 

"All of it," said Helius. "Ten thousand years of governance upon the Elden World. Then you players arrived, beings of power that flowered and grew and eventually surpassed in quick order. When the Chthonia began, you lent us your aid, and the Elden World was saved.