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Originally Posted by jamela
Jamela came to Verdant Heights to find new hope and rebuild a civilization. She found there a king who by all accounts embodied that purpose; he had united matis and tryker with Still Wyler's support, fostered good relations with the zoraļ nation and prohibited the persecution of kamists in his domain. King Yrkanis followed Jena, and Jamela saw that he was a leader setting a great example of tolerance, acceptance and understanding.
Then rumours spread that Jena was coming, with a force of Karavan to take battle to the Kami (not the Kamists, note), and when the Karavan verified the rumour Jamela was swept up with the excitement, thinking momentous things were about to happen and she might be involved. She had long wanted to have the strength to fight the sinister Kami, whose motives she did not understand but found frightening, and who whined all day long about goo yet did nothing. Jamela couldn't fail to notice also, however, her king's shoulders sag as he watched his people rally to join the Karavan against the Kami, and so inescapably against their followers, her friends.
So the Temple Wars began, and Jamela saw that the Karavan, and the Kami, took no part, only goading the homins on to fight with each other. Jena did not turn up. The Karavan did not take the fight to the Kami. Homin was killed by homin, by kitin, by Kami and by Karavan all, and yet at times most were still able to laugh and joke and work side by side, helping each other's cause to provide resources for the monuments the K's wanted to erect.
Temples and Sanctuaries were duly constructed and Jamela looked to the Temple of Light, sure that some enlightenment must be forthcoming, the better to spread the light of Jena and to build a stronger, wiser community. She found a monument with the revered commandments of Jena emblazoned on its surface, ... and a way to recognize and hurt, not to heal, those homins who followed the Kami. Jamela was very sure of Jena, but in her sight the Karavan had done nothing to engender her trust. Yet many of Jamela's friends had taken up with the Karavan, so she followed, but she was now very suspicious of the Karavan and it did not sit well with her. Still Jena did not come, and still the Karavan did nothing, and the Kami did nothing. And in time she noticed that many friends had vanished, many had changed and some treated her differently than before, and she remembered the sagging shoulders of her King.
So before long Jamela returned to the Temple and told the Karavan to shove it! (And felt much better ever since) She has faith in her friends, in her King and in Jena, and that is more than enough.
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