[00:03] disturbing. When we first meet her, she is introduced as a mere scout [music] sent abroad to invite Tarnished to the Volcano Manor. Soon enough, however, her mask slips to reveal Zaras, [music] a man serpent uncertain of her birthright.
[00:19] She confirms this herself when confronted with [music] the serpent's Amnon. &gt;&gt; I was born inside [music] this. It's a part of my birth mother. &gt;&gt; The Amnon is a serpent's womb. Yet, the
[00:34] [music] law is clear that Rya was not born naturally. The Amnon was instead [music] used in a repellent birthing ritual. So, with this in hand, Rya confronts Tanith, her foster mother, demanding to know how she was born. The
[00:50] &gt;&gt; [music] &gt;&gt; We learn of it through Dakar's woe, a talisman that depicts the disturbing likeness of a woman whose skin was flayed, smiling with a serene tenderness. [music] It is said that this
[01:03] woman indulged in every form of adultery and wicked pleasure imaginable, giving [music] For Rya to carry this talisman implies
[01:15] [music] she is born not just of the serpent's amnon but also of this wretched woman who must have assimilated the serpent's amnon and birthed Rya into her recursive frame. Before you gave Ry the serpent's amnon, she had taken
[01:32] Tanith at her word, believing that she had been born of the grace of a great had been born of the grace of a great king, probably Reichard. But now nothing, not even Tanith's [music] love, can shake her feeling of
[01:44] self-loathing. Tanith stresses that no one should be blamed for their heritage, but it is not enough. Rya has internalized the idea that her existence is an affront to order and asks you to take her life in the end, though a
[02:01] take her life in the end, though a better mercy exists. Once Reichard [music] gave Tanith a tonic of forgetfulness, which he hoped would [music] banish his lady's memory of his true blasphemous form, but she denied
[02:15] him [music] and stated, "My lord, there could be no greater distress than to forget you." She loved him as he could not imagine loving himself. So, she not imagine loving himself. So, she passes the unused tonic to Zaras. There
[02:29] is [music] love in this act, but there's a hurtful admission there as well, that a hurtful admission there as well, that some things are better left unknown.