These others... people who had worked with us over the years, our only friends, wanted to both break the hold she had on him, and punish Jade for attempting to draw him away. They created a conspiracy among themselves, setting Eterna up to take the fall for Rafael's crimes, which were enough to lock her away for life, if not cause her to be executed. They worked a web of deceit and lies around us all, creating suspicion and doubt where there should have been none. Eterna was cornered, trapped, unable to remain above ground without being apprehended by Italian authorities. Others leaked poison into Rafael’s ears about her motives, but he never really believed them. She stayed with us through the worst of it, until... until there was almost no choice.
Apparently, around this time, her mother contacted her somehow. I do not know how. And it was then that Eterna revealed to us what she really was. The daughter of a Goddess... A true Celestial in the Shadowrealm. An Aasimar. Her mother offered her sanctuary, offered to take her back with her to the Celestial plane of the Shadowrealm, to escape the trouble she was in here on earth, never to return. It became a choice for her, of whether to go with her mother and leave us all forever, or to remain here and escape with Rafael somewhere, running forever from the law and from the past.
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It is. But there is more to it.
These others... people who had worked with us over the years, our only friends, wanted to both break the hold she had on him, and punish Jade for attempting to draw him away. They created a conspiracy among themselves, setting Eterna up to take the fall for Rafael's crimes, which were enough to lock her away for life, if not cause her to be executed. They worked a web of deceit and lies around us all, creating suspicion and doubt where there should have been none. Eterna was cornered, trapped, unable to remain above ground without being apprehended by Italian authorities. Others leaked poison into Rafael’s ears about her motives, but he never really believed them. She stayed with us through the worst of it, until... until there was almost no choice.
Apparently, around this time, her mother contacted her somehow. I do not know how. And it was then that Eterna revealed to us what she really was. The daughter of a Goddess... A true Celestial in the Shadowrealm. An Aasimar. Her mother offered her sanctuary, offered to take her back with her to the Celestial plane of the Shadowrealm, to escape the trouble she was in here on earth, never to return. It became a choice for her, of whether to go with her mother and leave us all forever, or to remain here and escape with Rafael somewhere, running forever from the law and from the past.