12/05/2025
Varsmak stood by the water outside Enoch’s Tower staring out at the Farewave Ocean when a leviathanic beast known as one of the Children approached his place on the beach.
The beast unfurled one of its massive tentacles and deposited a woman next to Varsmak, a woman he recognized as none other than Saoirsa Chataway, the established leader of Broken Compass.
As Saoira awoke with the help of Varsmak, she got her bearings and explained her ship had been destroyed off the coast of the Kindred Isle by a vampire, and her unique relationship with the Children had saved her life, but couldn’t save the life of her crew.
Furthermore, now that she’d regained consciousness, she lamented the fact that her ship’s magical defenses should have made such an attack impossible. Which meant she’d been sabotaged by the only other person who had access to the ship’s defenses: her first mate, Adewale.
Saoira asked Varsmak if he’d accompany her back to Broken Compass in an effort to exact revenge on Adewale, to which Varsmak agreed.
The pair made their way to one of Saoirsa’s nearby hidden stashes, where she kept supplies and a small sailboat that could get them to Broken Compass.
When they arrived, they found a trio of thieves in the process of making off with Saoirsa’s stash. While Saoirsa went to end their lives, Varsmak was able to neutralize the thieves and leave them with nothing but empty boxes in the cave as he and Saoirsa sailed away.
Saoirsa made landfall a few days outside of Broken Compass with a plan to approach on foot. But in spending time with Varsmak, she seemed to notice something in him she had been too distracted to notice at first. She came to the conclusion that he was indeed the Varsmak she’d been looking for though most of her life.
Saoirsa took Varsmak to a nearby grove, a couple days away from Broken Compass, where the trees and plant life had been devastated by some sort of magical energy.
Varsmak’s body reacted to being in the grove, as lightning crackled across his skin and arced into the air around him. He approached the center of the grove to find a hollowed tree within which was a large, 12 foot tall crystal bursting with lightning magics.
Upon touching the crystal, Varsmak heard a man yell in encouragement, a woman scream, and then a baby cry.
When Varsmak asked Saoirsa what this was all about, she explained that her uncle had a child with his wife right here in this grove, though the couple was unaware a massive elemental crystal was hidden within the very tree they used as a backrest.
Something about the new life being born infused the child with the crystal’s energy, and the baby became like a lightning rod, an elemental affinity that was borderline uncontrollable.
While Saoirsa’s uncle saw this as a blessing, her aunt wished to fix the child, and so stole him away. However, their boat was found smashed against the rocks a few days after they’d left in the night.
Her uncle knew in his heart his child was still alive, and so he’d left, making Saoirsa promise to stay in Broken Compass in case his child ever came home. She’d know him by the storm in his soul.
The morning after her uncle left, a baby had washed up on shore, still breathing, and was taken in as many children given by the sea often are. Saoirsa had no idea it was Varsmak, and spent her entire life waiting for the return of a child who’d already done so.
Saoirsa sorrowfully explained her uncle, Varsmak’s father, had died searching the world for him, but now the cousins were reunited, and they would return to Broken Compass and bring the storm with them.