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Passions:

• Meet new people and determine if they are free or slaves.
• Never pass up an opportunity to collect a potent new reagent.
• Earn the trust and respect of the free and collaborate with them when it is mutually profitable.
• Use slaves effectively and without emotion.
• Recover my memories of the second past.
  • What is the significance of the golden gate that appeared when I was 8?
  • How and why did I summon an angra mainyu at 13?
  • Josiah Hasunam, a madman that seeks to become the master of all mana through ceremony
    • How would he accomplish his goal?
    • How did I kill him in the alternate past?
      • Was it for the same reason?
  • Who is/was Elias Craven?
  • How/why did my school burn down?
  • Who are the Alliance of Freedoms?
• Have our revenge on the conspiracy.
  • Stephen Nimbus
    • Calypso is the only one who can unseal the Sword.
  • Thurqus
    • Obiefune Smith's weapons can defeat him.
  • Aresedhel
  • Lyson
• Smash the scales, tip the balance, crush the hierarchy, break the peace, ruin the law, Kill. The. Arbiter.
• Don't let Obiefune Smith be erased by the Chronurians.
  • The Veil will see him.

Convictions:

• A little freedom is worth a lot of anything else.
• A contract is a contract is a contract ... unless it's with someone who can't collect.
• All governments and gods are inherently corrupt.
• Information is the ultimate weapon.
• Slavery is a mental defect, not an external circumstance; slaves are subhuman creatures that exist to serve and die for the free.
• A free man will choose death over slavery, but there are infinite other ways to manipulate.
• No man or god can truly be free as long as the Arbiter exists.

Relationships - The Party:

• Genfyllid - my primary client; free, and recently made aware of new horizons of freedom
• Skia - Belinda's willing slave, worthy of all the respect that can be afforded a slave
• Llunethan - free, a creature of rare delicacy and precious talents
• Tecumseh - a slave in name only, a worthy free ally

Relationships - Extended Party:

• Cuniaim - an embodiment of Genfyllid's authority and power

Relationships - Other Allies:

• Danfyr Brace - a potential teacher
• Belinda Sage - a talented fellow practitioner

Relationships - Frenemies:

• Stephen Nimbus - not who I thought he was; a talent that can travel through time like a watcher and change history, perhaps even after his death; seemingly of godlike power, but not godlike insight, seems addled, presumably from being older than the universe; Calypso and I will face and destroy him
• Lyson - TODO: exact my revenge

Relationships - Family:

• Valeriya Mao (mother) - tough, disciplined, ingenious in chemistry, perhaps not as ethical as I thought - killed in the second timebreak
• Vladmir Mao (father) - an old softy, but in places, under the surface, as monstrous as the rest of us - killed in the second timebreak
• Viktoria Mao (sister) - Consumed by Lyson
• Calypso - my wife in one life, my rival in the other

Relationships - Business:

• Duena Telle (former contractor)

Questions:

• About the prophet's direction:
  • Who else is traveling the timeline?
  • What was the fate of the heisters? they are on the map
    • Alill, the acrobat
    • Lafaek, the trapper
    • Bui, the shapeshifter
  • Who are Lyson's "court of servants", and what forms does he hide in?
• About watchers:
  • How can I observe watchers?
  • How can I hide from watchers?
  • How can I communicate with a watcher?
    • Presumably they can see me and my effects.
  • What are the limits of their time-traveling capabilities?
    • Can they travel to the past?
    • Can they travel to the future?
    • Can they see the past?
    • Can they see the future?
    • Can they change the past?
  • How can I catch a watcher?
  • How can I kill a watcher?
  • What is the ceremony to summon a watcher?
• About the Age of Stone:
  • Who attacked Ironhall?
    • What were they after?
    • When and where are they?
• About the Divine Courts and Divine Power:
  • What potential allies do we have left?
  • What sort of actions would make me more bound to divine power?
• About Baal
  • Who or what is Baal?
  • What is the source of the Arbiter's power, that Baal would so offend it?
• About my army
  • What emperors, kings, princes, and warlords can I make into my clients?

Answers:

• About the Mark of Obsidian Obelisk
  • What does it mean to be a "standard bearer"? Also known as a "harbinger". I have 11 votes in the divine parliament (1 more than a champion, amazingly). I must announce any declaration of war by the pantheon and stand by the marshall in times of war. Perhaps more.
• About the temporal anomaly:
  • Will changes to the timeline affect recorded history? According to the Storyteller, no, the watchers are sustaining recorded history.
• Stephen Nimbus
  • He bound my two souls together.
  • He is outside time and in the Age of Storms.
  • He has performed the Ceremony of the Voice.
  • He has unmeasured time-manipulation ability.
• What Leostisin learned that can help me control my talent: FocusingOnesTalent