GGR3-09: Veritas Invicta, Part 1
GGR Volume 3
Truth Unconquered. Titus speaks his full name. Grip carries dying Trisli — 'ad astra Kashana.' La'Calla introduces Acatin. The Death Tamers are welcomed. Battle draws its first breath.
Veritas Invicta — Truth Unconquered. The finale begins with a name. Lord Titus Metellus Glabrio Vorn speaks his full name aloud for the first time, and the weight of every ancestor settles like a mantle. 'This is my city. Your people are welcome here in any fashion of your God.' La'Calla delivers her origin journal verbatim from the transcript — 2,930 characters: 'I've come to understand that most here in the world of muscle and blood are born of a female womb. If you can say I was born, it was not of a womb. Hatched may be more accurate, fashioned by my maker. And yet I carry in my soul a depth of memory that stretches far beyond the span of my physical life.' Grip carries the dying Trisli — a Hunter x Hunter reference acknowledged at the table — eyes gone black, malicious aura emanating. He whispers: 'Ad astra Kashana — to the stars, my treasure.' The Death Tamers and their Calveras are welcomed into Juramentum's defense. Roff is invoked. Battle draws its first breath.