Lehran's Medallion: Difference between revisions

Following the Great Flood and [[Ashunera]] casting away her emotions, her new form [[Ashera]] wished to destroy her emotions, in the form of the chaos goddess [[Yune]], to permanently prevent a catastrophe like the Great Flood from ever happening again. The advice and pleas of her servants, [[Altina]] and [[Lehran]], convinced her to allow Yune to just be imprisoned. Using the power of his [[Ancient language|galdrar]], Lehran sealed Yune within a medallion he possessed, with the promise that she would be released and reunited with Ashera in the event that the [[laguz]] and [[beorc]] lived in peace for a millennium. Lehran kept the medallion in his possession for a time, and after his disappearance it was inherited through generations of the [[heron]] laguz royalty of [[Serenes Forest|Serenes]]. Yune - now reviled as a "dark god" whose release from the medallion should be averted at all costs - remained asleep in the medallion for the following 780 years, unable to do anything except let the energies of her chaos radiate from the medallion. Throughout this time, she was regularly serenaded by heron galdrar which soothed her and kept her at peace.<ref>{{Cite|'''Yune:''' Ashera and I see things a little differently… During my long sleep, I was wrapped in sweet, gentle music.<br>'''Ike:''' Heron galdrar?<br>'''Yune:''' Yes, but more important than the song itself, I was never alone. There was always someone, singing comfort to me. Ashera shouldn’t have isolated herself. She became lonely and bitter, and lost touch with her people.|Yune and [[Ike]]|Radiant Dawn}}</ref>

In the year 625, the [[Serenes Massacre]] occurred and wiped out most of the heron tribe, including much of the royal family. The medallion was left abandoned on an altar in Serenes, along with the surviving heron princess [[Lillia]], and the two were found by Lehran who, in his grief over the destruction of the herons, resolved to awaken Yune and hasten the judgement of the world. Since he no longer had that ability himself, he let both the medallion and Lillia enter the possession of the [[Daein]] army,<ref>{{Cite|'''Sephiran:''' Lady Sanaki, your theory is half correct… and half incorrect. Sir Ike, I’m afraid your father’s death was an unfortunate result of Zelgius’s own personal agenda. I must admit that I did ask him to seize the medallion and hand it over to King Ashnard, but it was not to gain Ashnard’s trust.<br>'''Sanaki:''' Then why?<br>'''Sephiran:''' Because originally the medallion belonged with me. 23 years ago, I placed it with Princess Lillia of Serenes.|[[Sephiran]] and [[Sanaki]] ([http://serenesforest.net/radiant-dawn/scripts/game-script/part-4-final-chapter-rebirth-4/extended/ extended script])|Radiant Dawn}}</ref> which imprisoned her in Palmeni Temple. King [[Ashnard]] himself<ref>{{Cite|Yes, I tried to get her to free the dark god from the medallion, but all she did was get sick and die. Pah! They're ridiculously frail creatures. I should have just killed her in the first place and saved some time.|[[Ashnard]]|Path of Radiance}}</ref> - although Lillia did not know his identity - repeatedly tried to force her to perform the galdr of release on the medallion, which she was not able to do.<ref>{{Cite|'''Reyson:''' She was kidnapped twenty years ago, on the night of the Serenes Massacre. I...I thought that Lillia had been murdered along with my other brothers and sisters. I believed that until today...<br>'''Ike:''' Who took her?<br>'''Reyson:''' The walls say only that he was a large human. She probably never knew who it was. He thrust a clan treasure at her and demanded that she use her magic to revive the thing sealed inside it. He exhorted her again and again, but to no avail. Lillia refused his request every time...because she did not possess that power.|[[Reyson]] and [[Ike]]|Path of Radiance}}</ref> Eventually, before her death, she befriended a Daein cleric who attended to her named [[Elena]], and entrusted her with both the medallion and the lyrics to the galdr of release. At Lillia's request, Elena fled Daein along with her husband, General [[Greil|Gawain]], to protect the medallion from the Daein forces who sought to unlock the dark god.<ref>{{Cite|'''Reyson:''' I beg your pardon. Let me continue. A young beorc began coming to the room to care for Lillia. She had bluish hair and blue eyes...And her heart was unusually pure for a beorc. In time, Lillia and she came to be friends, and shared a mutual trust.<br>'''Mist:''' Ah!<br>'''Ike:''' ...<br>'''Reyson:''' Lillia decided to entrust her hopes to the woman. They shared no common language, so it took some time. But eventually, the beorc woman understood what it was Lillia wanted... Which was to take the treasure and the song...and flee this temple.<br>'''Mist:''' B-Brother!<br>'''Ike:''' Was there anything else written about this beorc woman? A name, perhaps...<br>'''Reyson:''' (Elena....) Translated into our language, it was probably Elena.|[[Reyson]], [[Mist]] and [[Ike]]|Path of Radiance}}</ref>

Elena and Gawain - the latter now calling himself Greil - settled in [[Gallia]] and set up a mercenary corps, and eventually had two children, [[Ike]] and [[Mist]]. Elena protected the medallion from others until, when Ike and Mist were young, Greil claimed it and was driven mad by its power. Under its influence he slaughtered everybody in sight until Elena sacrificed itself to seize it back from him. Shortly after, [[Sephiran]] and [[Zelgius]] arrived on the scene and found Greil, his children, and his countless victims. Mist picked up the medallion despite Sephiran's warnings, and proved to be unaffected by its chaos, so Sephiran left it in her possession. Afterward, having moved his mercenary operation to [[Crimea]], Greil strictly forbade Ike from ever touching it, and maimed himself drastically in case he ever touched it again.<ref>{{Cite|'''Ike:''' I'm finding all of this a little hard to believe. You said the medallion was "an object of great peril," didn't you? Then why would my father allowMist to carry it around? That doesn't make any sense.<br>'''Volke:''' It's because she can carry it safely. Actually, she's the only one who can. If you want proof, think back. Have you ever once touched it?<br>'''Ike:''' ...No. I haven't. A long time ago, I remember reaching out for it while Mist had it in her hand... My father scolded me harshly. After that, I assumed...it was my sister's alone, and I never reached for it again.|[[Ike]] and [[Volke]]|Path of Radiance}}</ref>