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It's a clear night. Torches light the path through Ras Huran's dock slums. Dal sprints down the wooden pier outside their home. She's smiling, excited about the thing in her outstretched hands.
She bursts through their front door, waving a small gold statue.
Dal
QEB!
Check this out!
You wouldn't believe the kinda people they'll make idols of these days.
Dal presses her cheek to the statue's temple, mimicking the idol's wide blank smile.
Dal
Just wookit dis handsome buddy...
Lowering the gold trinket, Dal squints at Qebrus. Her smile gone as she questions him.
Dal
...Hey. Hold it.
Surrounded by their stolen goods, Qebrus pulls the drawstring on a bag taught as he looks up at Dal. Bags of glass, gold, jewelry, and other treasures are arranged around his stacked cuffs.
Dal
What're you doing?
The Luminous Body is a monastic order in the South whose agents, the Decadents, are unmistakable for their elaborate and unweildly appearance. The Luminous Body take Nyue’s characterization as existence quite literally. To them, she is the material world itself, and to be close to Nyue—to rise above the undifferentiated texture of the unenlightened—is to amass as much material wealth as possible. Avarice as doctrine.
