These summoning rules do beg the question - If there is no specified summoning ritual at all, does that mean nobody can summon the being in question? It does seem imprudent to provide specifications if the alternative is freedom from such impositions. It's nothing he can't look into of his own accord though, and for the time being, steering them both away from potential trouble trumps idle curiosity.
The shift in Alec is noted with interest; and the feral surge in Simon’s core ebbs away quite smoothly, as he takes another sip.
“As you know,” he begins, “Ylaia was Empress at the time of your younger self's pack with Phoenix and Vahlmir. After a few centuries though, she was weary of the responsibility, and as a Beta personality, started to feel that Keldra was beginning to require a firmer hand at the tiller.”
“Of zhe chieftains, Drake was well suited but had his hands full with the hell realms. Mae lacked interest, but Vahlmir was fast becoming the most powerful, so Ylaia asked him, on a couple of different occasions. Vahl wasn't what you'd call enamoured with the idea. He refused, not wishing to lose certain freedoms.”
Vahl has always made it known that he values and needs his freedom. But then he wasn’t so unfeeling as to force such a loss of freedom on any of his Danaë-born siblings. Especially Ylaia, of whom The Nightmare is inordinately fond.
“Eventually, once I had been chieftain for a couple of centuries, she asked... no, begged, actually. Again. This time Vahl thought it over, and with the condition that I was to rule at his side, not as consort, but equal, he accepted. Nobody was more surprised than I, when he came to me and suggested it.”
Simon's eyes glint with humour as he adds, “No. I'm not arrogant enough to label this as Keldra's good fortune, I'm coming to that in a minute... Suffice it to say, Keldra now has two Tzars. The Tzarkaehl and the Tzarkahn, to distinguish us from each other. Myself being the latter.”
Re: Simon Gruber
The shift in Alec is noted with interest; and the feral surge in Simon’s core ebbs away quite smoothly, as he takes another sip.
“As you know,” he begins, “Ylaia was Empress at the time of your younger self's pack with Phoenix and Vahlmir. After a few centuries though, she was weary of the responsibility, and as a Beta personality, started to feel that Keldra was beginning to require a firmer hand at the tiller.”
“Of zhe chieftains, Drake was well suited but had his hands full with the hell realms. Mae lacked interest, but Vahlmir was fast becoming the most powerful, so Ylaia asked him, on a couple of different occasions. Vahl wasn't what you'd call enamoured with the idea. He refused, not wishing to lose certain freedoms.”
Vahl has always made it known that he values and needs his freedom. But then he wasn’t so unfeeling as to force such a loss of freedom on any of his Danaë-born siblings. Especially Ylaia, of whom The Nightmare is inordinately fond.
“Eventually, once I had been chieftain for a couple of centuries, she asked... no, begged, actually. Again. This time Vahl thought it over, and with the condition that I was to rule at his side, not as consort, but equal, he accepted. Nobody was more surprised than I, when he came to me and suggested it.”
Simon's eyes glint with humour as he adds, “No. I'm not arrogant enough to label this as Keldra's good fortune, I'm coming to that in a minute... Suffice it to say, Keldra now has two Tzars. The Tzarkaehl and the Tzarkahn, to distinguish us from each other. Myself being the latter.”