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Aren Bennis

2014-08-11T02:19:05Z

173.58.194.250: Added reference notes.

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|image=SotA_BotA_Ch5_illustration_small.png
|caption=Captain Aren and [[Monk]] his [[Homunculus]]
|location=Obsidian Empire
|firstappearance=Blade of the Avatar
}}

Captain [[Aren Bennis]] was a captain of the [[Obsidian Empire]]'s [[Army of Westreach]] and is the main protagonist in the [[Blade of the Avatar]] novella.<ref name="BotA-page-7>[[Blade of the Avatar]], page 7.</ref>

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In the novella, Aren is credited with several campaign victories under the command of General [[Milos Karpasic]], notably the conquest of [[Midras]]. While Aren serves the [[Obsidian Empire|Obsidian cause]], he does not appear to have any strong beliefs one way or another and seems to care more about being a loyal servant to an ideal rather than what that ideal might stand for. He does have connections to the [[Obsidian Cabal]], notably [[Evard Dirae]], whom he is able to contact with his homunculus, [[Monk]].

During the course of the story, Aren discovers an [[Avatar Blade]] in a tomb beneath a temple in Midras and draws it despite the the objections and warnings of curses from his companion [[Syenna]]. He decides to keep it for himself, and quickly comes to value the weapon above all his other possessions.

Later, while searching for the mythical [[Paths of the Dead]] in the [[Hellfire Rift]], Syenna and Aren's guard escort turn on and capture him in an effort to secure the Avatar Blade, and bear them both south to [[Etceter]].

Once secured in [[Etceter]], Aren is brought into the presence of the [[Council of Might]] giving him an excellent opportunity to identify the coalition working against the [[Obsidian Empire]]. He is also allowed to carry the [[Avatar Blade]] into the council chamber, enabling him to defend himself when attacked by Ambassador [[Miles Shepherd]]. He defeats the ambassador but does not kill him due to the insight the [[Avatar Blade]] grants him on Miles.

When returned to the [[Etceter]] stockade, Aren is found by [[Monk]] and wastes no time giving the homunculus a message about the Obsidians' enemies and that he himself is to be taken to [[Opalis]].

In Opalis, Aren meets with the [[Titan]]s who rule the city, who reveal two important truths: the blade he carries is the legendary [[Eye of the Scales]], and that the [[Westreach Army]] is coming to attack the city. Knowing that he is a man of honor and truth, they ask him to protect the city's greatest treasure: the knowledge accumulated over centuries, which Aren knows General Karpasic will destroy if he takes the city.

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Markus Dirae

2014-08-11T02:16:22Z

173.58.194.250: Added reference notes.

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|location=Obsidian Empire
|firstappearance=Blade of the Avatar
}}

[[Markus Dirae]] was an acolyte among the [[Obsidian Cabal]]. It was he that inscribed the [[Prophecy of the Obsidian Eye]].<ref name="BotA-pages-3-5">[[Blade of the Avatar]], pages 3 - 5.</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Evard Dirae]]

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Obsidian Eye

2014-08-11T02:14:19Z

173.58.194.250: Added reference tags.

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|location=Obsidian Empire
|firstappearance=Blade of the Avatar
}}
The Obsidian Eye is the sorcerer who founded the [[Obsidian Empire]]. Little it known of him, not even his original name. He was an orphan in a small village on the [[River Meino]], near [[Rhun]], where he stole the book known as [[Lamentation of the Fall]], although he could not read it at the time. He had a talent for conjuring and shaping magic, and used it to aid farmers and travelers in the village.<ref name="BotA-page-2">[[Blade of the Avatar]], page 2.</ref>

After he stole the book, he crossed the [[Vaughban Mountains]] into the [[Grunvald]] plain, eventually finding the first of the [[Shard Fall]]s. Over time, he mastered this new magick, and others with the gift came to apprentice to him, eventually growing into the [[Obsidian Cabal]].<ref name="BotA-page-2"></ref>

From his chamber below the fortress of [[Desolis]], he used the [[Destiny Pool]] to foretell a prophecy, which he believes meant the world was in chaos, and Obsidian order should return it to order.<ref name="BotA-page-3">[[Blade of the Avatar]], page 3.</ref>

==Prophecy of the Obsidian Eye==
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| text=The world is fallen; fallen into chaos. Men reached up in anger and shattered the sky. Its blackness falls to earth like a rain of dark glass; The ordered customs and rows of society are shattered. All men stumble in the blinding light of a blood red dawn. Sightless who will not see. Deaf to the truth they will not hear. Mewing and wailing of and for themselves. They kill with discordant and untamed shouts The melodic order of their better selves. Yet from the Obsidian’s fall shall arise Seen only by the ordered Eye The blade which shall render order in their midst; Silence the voices who screech outside the ordered tune; Darken the eyes of unwelcome vision; And bring one vision, one voice, one song To a world reborn in perfect twilight. Supreme and ordered once more in its flawlessness. Of one thought and purpose born and died. Until only the night remains.
| book=Blade of the Avatar
}}<ref name="BotA-pages-4-5">[[Blade of the Avatar]], pages 4-5.</ref>

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