Difference between revisions of "Lasting Integrity"

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|No human city would ever have been built this way; even Urithiru needed fields at its base and windows to keep the people from going mad. But Lasting Integrity didn’t follow normal laws of nature.

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== Appearance and Layout ==

Lasting Integrity had a standing isolationist policy between {{Rosharan date|1174}}-{{Rosharan date|1175}}{{book ref|Sa4|75}} that was implemented not long after Azure reached the fortress.{{book ref|sa4|75}} During this time the fortress did not allow anyone - spren or human, even if an emissary{{book ref|sa4|36}} - to enter, with the exception of [[deadeye]]s,{{book ref|sa4|75}} the Herald Kalak,{{book ref|sa4|78}} and in cases the spren deem extraordinary.{{book ref|sa4|36}} It was around this point that sailors stopped moving through the general area due to the honorspren’s dislike of foreign ships.{{book ref|sa4|22}}

 

 

Despite this policy, Kalak was permitted to come and go from the fortress as he pleased, and would leave for weeks on end to patrol the surrounding area.{{book ref|sa4|78}}

In 1175 a delegation from [[Urithiru]] headed by [[Adolin]] and [[Shallan]], set out to visit Lasting Integrity and try to convince the honorspren to rebond humans and join their war efforts against [[Odium]] and the [[Fused]].{{book ref|sa4|19}} The honorspren of Lasting Integrity did not respond kindly to the efforts of Adolin, destroying his correspondence from the coalition monarchs and refusing to engage his pleas and arguments. With all of his other plans having failed, Adolin surrendered himself into the custody of the honorspren, after giving them the opportunity to trial him for the [[Recreance]]. As the honorspren allowed for two others to remain with Adolin, Shallan and [[Pattern]] joined the [[highprince]] inside the fortress when Adolin was taken into custody.{{book ref|sa4|36}}

 

 

Around the same time that Adolin and his group reached Lasting Integrity, the number of [[deadeye]]s in the area began to increase, with the dead spren gathering together outside the honorspren keep, nearby on the coast. When the spren first began to arrive, the honorspren of Lasting Integrity took them in to be cared for,{{book ref|sa4|75}} including twenty deadeye honorspren.{{book ref|sa4|87}} The honorspren, however, quickly began running out of accommodations for the deadeyes, and eventually had to close their gates to the coalescing spren and leave them to congregate outside. By the start of Adolin’s trial, two hundred deadeyes had appeared outside of Lasting Integrity, not including those who had already been taken in and sheltered in the keep.{{book ref|sa4|75}}

 

==== The Sins of Humanity ====

|Honor is not dead so long as he lives in the hearts of men!

|[[Notum]] speaking his true feelings during [[Adolin]]'s trial{{book ref|sa4|87}}

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At some point around the beginning of Adolin’s trial, the honorspren began to construct a holding cell that could accommodate a human, so that when Adolin was convicted and sentence, he could be put on display in Lasting Integrity, as a reminder of the damage caused by the Recreance.{{book ref|sa4|87}}

Blended and Adolin pushed for a trial by witness, as it would be the most favorable strategy Adolin could adopt, due to his poor understanding of honorspren legal code.{{book ref|sa4|78}} When Kalak returned from his patrol,{{book ref|sa4|78}} Adolin approached him at the gates to Lasting Integrity and made his request. Although [[Sekeir]], a prominent honorspren elder, opposed the idea, Kalak granted Adolin’s wish.{{book ref|sa4|82}} Despite Adolin’s objections, the trial would be held in the stronghold's forum and would be open to the other occupants of the keep.{{book ref|sa4|82}}

 

 

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The third and final day of Adolin’s trial, saw almost every honorspren attend the forum to witness the verdict. Due to Kalak being detained by the honorspren, Sekeir stepped in as High Judge to oversee the last of the witness statements and started the day by reading a very long winded speech. When Adolin interrupted him, Sekeir threatened to gag the Highprince. Following Sekeir’s speech, Amuna led Maya into the room as the final witness. Sekeir "spoke" on Maya’s behalf, using the chance to tout his own vitriol. Maya grew increasingly distressed by Sekeir and the other honorspren’s treatment of her, and ended up being physically restrained by Amuna and another honorspren so that she could not escape. Adolin, wanting to end the abuse Maya was being subjected to, pleaded for judgement to be given, however, Sekeir refused and instead continued to use the moment as a spectacle to promote his platform. Maya grew more violent in her struggles, thrashing around and wanting to be let go. When Adolin tried to physically help her, he was restrained by several nearby honorspren, who were waiting for him to try and go to the [[cultivationspren]]’s aid.{{book ref|sa4|94}}

 

 

==== Hunting a Herald and Accepting the Past ====

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|Adolin is right. He’s always been right about you. Tell me. Who is the strongest of mind? The woman whose emotions are always on her side? Or the woman whose own thoughts betray her? You have fought this fight every day of your life, Shallan. And '''you are not weak'''.

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== Culture ==

=== Deadeye Refuge ===

|We are left, to wander Shadesmar as dead souls, unable to think or talk. Our bodies are used, screaming, as weapons by the descendants of the ones who killed us.

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Lasting Integrity is dedicated to caring for any [[deadeye]]s that they find around the fortress or in the area.{{book ref|sa4|87}} They only have a limited amount of space, however, and if too many deadeyes make their way to the keep, the [[honorspren]], reluctantly, have to turn them away.{{book ref|sa4|75}} The inhabitants of the fortress do preference taking in deadeye honorspren if they are forced to limit the number of deadeyes they can care for.{{book ref|sa4|87}}

 

Adolin’s trial is used as a focal point by the older generation to try and drive home their point about the dangers of humans,{{book ref|sa4|87}} although [[Notum]] and some of the younger honorspren also tried to capitalize on the event to promote their own thoughts.{{book ref|sa4|87}} The treatment of [[Maya]] by the older honorspren, however, did not sit well with many of the spren who were in attendance,{{book ref|sa4|94}} and combined with Maya’s testimony about the Recreance, the ideology of the younger generation appears to have won out.{{book ref|sa4|115}}

 

* [[Kalak]]

* [[Sekeir]]

* [[Sixteen]]

* [[Amuna]]

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== Notes ==

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