“Sometimes the most good you can do is knowing when to do nothing at all.”— Zaheer
Zaheer doesn't want revenge. He wants understanding.
He never shouts. He never threatens. He asks questions — quiet, surgical questions that take things apart from the inside. Where other men carry weapons, Zaheer wears a ring. An emerald ring that glows green when he's working, with something like electricity moving under the stone's surface.
The ring has a name. The Veritas. So does he, now.
People in Vryehelm whisper that the ring doesn't steal memories. It borrows them. The problem is, it never gives them back the same way.
The Chronicle
I
The Ring
The Veritas Ring amplifies what he already is. It is not the source. It is only the instrument. The instrument can be lost. He can not.
II
The Method
He has been called a monster by the people he has broken. He has been called a teacher by himself. Somewhere between those two descriptions is the truth about Zaheer al-Reghal.
III
The Loops
He will keep running the loops until you find it. He has been patient before. He is patient now. Patience is the only weapon he has ever needed.
He has been called a monster. He has been called a teacher. Both, by people who survived him.
Zaheer
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