The Unlocking of the Hidden Temple
opened a door in the world itself and found the ones behind it already waiting for her. She spent her first years reading grimoires of magic and alchemy, rebuilding experiments from charred scraps of the , and memorizing the notes of the Keen recordkeepers. Getting hold of such things took stealth, and stealth became her second talent; a louder woman would have made a name among the guilds as a thief-scholar.
Lanaya went quieter and further, until her furtive work turned up a secret door set into nature, the way into the most . The intelligences beyond it knew her before she knew them. They offered the answers she craved in exchange for her service as the temple's guardian and assassin, and she swore it, because each foe she removes uncovers a little more of the mystery.
She calls them intelligences, and nothing else. The temple is Inai's, and by his own word she knows him without recognizing him; that alone puts him on the far side of her door.
- Templar Assassin
- Void Spirit
