bureau for Runaan's war crimes 🗡

Runaan: If you're trying to understand the star arcanum, don't bother. Not even the greatest of elven mages could do it, let alone you.

Callum, without skipping a beat: It's the fourteenth anniversary of my Dad's death today. We used to love stargazing together when I was small.

Runaan:

watches his daughter dramatically make out with her weird boyfriend

eats worms

watches his daughter dramatically make out with her weird boyfriend again

Ethari, from the back: Sorry, but he's already hung.

a moment of truth.

and in that moment,

you hesitate.

Something about Runaan cursed to be literal money, with no value other than the things people who hate or love him are willing to do.

Something about when his daughter held his soul in her arms, it took the form of the lotus his husband made for him in faith that he'd come back home.