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-====== Dan Heng ▫ Imbibtor Lunae ======
+====== Dan Heng ▫ Imbibitor Lunae (Destruction, Imaginary) ======
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+Dan Heng's true form from his Vidyadhara lineage carries the residual power left behind by his past incarnation, the Imbibitor Lunae.\\
+Upon accepting the majestic horns atop his crown, he must accept all the merits and faults attributed to that sinner.
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+==== Character Details ====
 Dan Heng's true [[potential:vidyadhara|Vidyadhara]] form, revealed after accepting the residual powers from the previous reincarnation of "Imbibitor Lunae." Upon accepting the majestic horned crown atop his forehead, he must accept all the merits and faults attributed to that person. However, he was never himself.
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 ==== Character Story, Part III ====
+In the dim abyss devoid of light, he seemed to have returned to the insides of a Vidyadhara egg, being ceaselessly churned in tumultuous waves and elusive dreams.
+He dreamed that he parted the ocean's waters and came to the palace ruin depths, burying the remnants of his old friend's hallowed blood, or creating a new life that had not been seen for millennia — or, perhaps, those two actions were one and the same, an unattainable desire that could not be carried out for long years in the past, a final straw that broke the gargantuan dragon's back. The craftsman was covered in blood and wounds as he guarded the dragon with a sword in his hand. He urged himself to commit to the decision.
+//"[[npc:shuhu|Shuhu]] is dead... we won, but how many more victories can we manage to achieve? How many more prices like this must we pay?"//\\
+//"Look, the Ambrosial Arbor still stands. So long as it is alive, the monsters... they can come back again and again. The war of the Xianzhou natives, foxians, and Vidyadhara against the abominations will never end."//\\
+//"Yes, none of us are special! Each of us has only one life, sacrificing for this, dying for that... it's all our own choices. Just like how she chose to save you and Jingliu... just like how she chose to let more people live on."//
+War, and the lives that expired in the war, were living beings just like him.\\
+He shut his eyes wearily, remembering their faces, and made up his mind.\\
+//"If there's a chance... we will also choose to let her and more people live on.//\\
+// We, the Vidyadhara, have our own way of salvation. I can give it a try."//
+Like an out-of-body experience, like a dream within a dream, he returned to the moment before his sense of self disappeared. With a cold and emotionless mind, he observed himself turning into a dragon, entangled and fighting claw-and-fangs against that bulb of shapeshifting shadow of flesh and blood. In an illusion seen on the verge of death, the emissary of the god showed him and unsettling, beautiful scene — the stars pulsated and sang hymns like red blood cells, and the universe descended into an abyss of flesh and desires. The dragon heart beat to its limit, raising its fangs, breath, and fury — however, no matter how mighty it was, a "lifeform" cannot defy the true body of a god of life's envoy.
+... Until a starskiff ran everything through like an arrow shaft. He saw that girl crawling out of the ruins with great difficulty, lifting a "sun" of absolute darkness in her hand. In that fleeting eternity, he saw her hand disappear, saw her face disappear, and saw her disappear — That item had ground everything around it into the finest dust and dragged them into a vortex of raw power, including that girl.
+A tuft of hair and a few drops of blood fell to the floor as evidence of her existence. Those were the only traces she left.
+----
+==== Character Story, Part IV ====
+In the dim abyss devoid of light, he seemed to have returned to the insides of the Vidyadhara egg, being ceaselessly churned in tumultuous waves and elusive dreams.
+He dreamed of the [[potential:draconian.nails|Draconian Nails]] being staked into his body, and chains of corallium winding around him to hang him in midair in the Shackling Prison. He dreamed the elders coming and going to interrogate him about the truth of the [[potential:arcanum|Arcanum]] and the whereabouts of the dragon heart. He did not speak.
+He dreamed of the [[potential:ten-lords.commission|Judges]] coming before him to read their decision and wanting to sentence him to death. He did not speak.
+He dreamed of the white-haired Cloud Knight Lieutenant coming to visit him and bringing him news of the Lieutenant's negotiations. The Vidyadhara did not permit him to die, nor did they permit him to leave. He did not speak.
+He dreamed he was raising his cup to drink with the others again, that he molted off his scales, and that he returned to the egg, and became someone else.
+He dreamed many, many things, like a never-ending immersia entitled "Self."
+Following the immersia was an even clearer but unreachable illusion.
+He saw himself being exiled. He saw himself boarding an express. He saw himself running into the endless stars, never looking back.