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crazy how clorivia went from "you're the hand that killed my father and i know you were commanded to do it but i can never forgive you for it" and "the guilt of what i've done haunts me like a ghost and the only way i can live with myself is by ensuring your safety from the shadows" best friends to lovers to enemies to 'it's complicated' and now they travel the world and play D&D together like an old lesbian couple

it's no surprise, but i think it's really endearing how wanderer found purpose in the pursuit of knowledge. like he came back from irminsul with a love of learning and an intellectual hunger that can't be sated. someone who previously would have scoffed at the futility of higher education and belabored the limits of human knowledge now finds fulfillment in pursuing it as an idle past-time. and it's hilarious cause as much as he won't admit it, he's not even a casual scholar in the slightest, he's a very active and engaged one who regularly publishes and peer reviews papers and has also apparently, within the short span of his fledgling academic career, already written more essays than sandrone has in her entire life. he's prolific as hell! and he finds it fun! it's almost like learning saved his life!