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Shintari, who Follows in Trouble's Footsteps
Some feel that change is a good thing and a constant, and some feel that it is a desecration of that which could be perfect. For Szoreny in his truest form takes the most beautiful of nature and its towering life, and makes it eternal.
Shintari is the part of Szoreny who loves him not for the majesty of his changing growth, not for the infinity of his borders, not for the unity of his countless seperate parts, but for the metallic permanence of his flesh. She considers it her obligation to prop up falling trees, to eliminate those that would alter Szoreny's flesh, and to keep all things in line. She follows Ekteinomai, and he is carelesss; when he leaves behind seeds, she uproots them. She follows Tellinc, and he is inattentive; when his fires melt the world, she cools it with a touch after he has passed. These were her tasks, but they are not anymore.
Now, she follows Isidoris as he winds his path through Szoreny; she cannot order him to stop; he is greater than she, and cannot be gainsaid. She follows him wishing to undo what he has done, but she is unable. She could repair the work done by the souls of Szoreny, because he was inattentive to them. But Szoreny considers the work of Isidoris as the fulfilment of an oath and as a sacrament, and so she cannot change it, his work instantly embraced into her master's flesh.
Shintari takes the form of a lynx of a man's height with hairs of silver and black iron, whose passage is utterly silent. The sounds of the forest go silent in her presence, not out of fear but out of respect for her. She talks in a quiet voice like the rustling of leaves, and her voice carries anywhere in the forest she wills.
It has been said that it is within her power to declare nature the enemies of a being or concept; it is within her power to force beings to obey their motivations, and it is within her power to make a land potent and fecund, although the life that bursts from it will be silver and sterile. She may unmake damage to things and people, and restore them to the way they once were as long as some physical vestige of that past remains.
