Skill: Seer + Ice Ice Baby and Purple Flame

As a deeply religious man, the dreams had shaken him to his core. It wasn't easy to rattle his beliefs - they held a rock-solid foundation spanning back many years, even a lifetime lived and died - even if he still couldn't quite remember everything.

His thick coat and harsh upbringing were all that saved him now.

Forward. By Houtu's grace alone he had made it this far, battling fearsome polar winds and dodging the glowing fissures that split the earth, devouring trees and animals alike in their suddenness. So far he'd been lucky - blessed, even. Favored. Likely this was some spiritual test for him to endure.

Oh, but not even his frigid past in the deep mountains could have prepared him for this.

Святая Мать-Волчица, даруй мне свою силу - (Sacred Wolf Mother, lend me your strength -) he muttered under his breath, struggling to form the words through his frozen lips. As long as he kept talking, kept moving, he could keep the blood pumping and continue to search for these powerful Runes the stranger so urgently spoke of. Clearly time was running out, he thought, shifting his gaze toward the Moving Isle.

Runes.

Head down, he pushed onward, scanning the horizon for any sign of a pulsing blue glow that didn't fall down to the center of the earth...

Huh. Well, something was glowing.

Dimas, intrigued by the strange purple flame, approached it cautiously.

The nymph had never been this far north, and she could not say that she liked it. This form of water had never appealed to her – the frozen kind. She would only find herself here but the most intense of influences, which unfortunately had plagued her at night. She did not know if others had experienced it, she just ran.

She ran to find the runes. She ran north, because the Gods bade her to.

But when she saw the fire, Ampoule was drawn in by its warmth. She was not alone, and Ampoule smiled at the glowing figure as she drew closer. Greeting, stranger. Was all she said, allowing herself to thaw for a moment at the strange flame’s side. This was not the first flame she would ever see, nor the last, and she deigned to enjoy them. They were harmless enough.

The nymph didn’t realize yet, but she recognized this man.

And he would recognize her purpose.

Rune Discovery : 「 Success 」 

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The Isle raged, the very earth itself groaned and split, and more and more the cracks formed. There was a great darkness lurking nearby, but near the strange flames both of you are relatively safe.

It took more energy, more to react from, and it was only when she arrived, with that overflowing energy, the rune pulsed stronger. It was hard to compete with the purple flames, and that strange, mesmerizing dance cast a purple glow to the snow as well. It almost looked like the auroras as they shimmered across the sky. The blue and purple danced together, if you can only manage to tear your gaze away to check the nearby snowbanks.

The sound of the sea raging only added to the cacophony; the wind howled off the frigid ice. If you do not see......if you do not find it, we will all perish.