Thyssa and Merryway

Did get back together, as they planned. When Thyssa wasn’t in Grendel Pack territory, she lived with Merryway’s clan, studying their laws and advising them on all things malform. Eventually, they were married, uniting Clan Blackhart and Grendel Pack.

It was the first marriage between a human and an ex-malform. It was not the last.

Malforms

Now had a decision to make. For the first time since they were created, they could choose both their form and their company.

Many followed Thyssa’s path – albeit the path was much easier now.

Many didn’t. Even some who had longed to be human found pride in being malforms, now that it wasn’t just a form they were stuck with.

Thyssa served as a mentor to the former; the Ogre Queen, the latter.

Grendel Pack

Stayed at peace with the Cerberus and Widow Mantis packs. Thyssa, Skleeth and the Ogre Queen all worked hard to keep what they had finally won.

Without the Stormwatch to unite against, it was difficult to keep everyone working together, but things got easier once they found an abundant supply of food…

The Walled Garden

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Received a visit from Thyssa and her entourage, now that the Stormwatch wasn’t there to police its borders. Thyssa politely requested that they share their immense technological and agricultural wealth, for the benefit of all – human and malform alike.

They agreed to this request, so the Ogre Queen finished tearing apart and eating their walls while glaring at them, and Thyssa thanked the perfect citizens for their generous donations.

Lili

Left these lands in disgrace. Without allies to do her dirty work, without the Fountain’s stolen powers, she was really just a doctor with an unpleasant attitude. Thyssa had become a bridge between humans and malforms only after she gave up on her. Lili was proud of her, but there was no going back into her life. She had cast out her sins, and her sins cast her out.

Thyssa never sought her out…but she heard distant tales of a travelling doctor, beautiful as a goddess, who appeared to those on the verge of death and saved them. There were rumours that she had an unsavoury past…but nobody’s perfect.

Mount Three Trials

Was never the same after Thyssa and Merryway’s fateful journey. The trials had let in the wicked and nearly killed the innocent, and so it was clear that their time had ended. Under Merryway’s direction, the Wall of Smokeless Fire and Path of The Mind’s Eye were dismantled, and the broken glass from the Cavern of Yourself was cleared up. The inert devices became holy relics.

The mountain was fitted with ramps, elevators and even a funicular, letting thousands make the pilgrimage. If you couldn’t use those, Skleeth ran an express delivery service, delivering the healing water quickly enough that it wouldn’t lose its power.

The Goddess Fountain

Saved many lives as more and more people could finally enjoy its promise of health. Some feared that its powers would be exhausted by overuse, but the opposite proved true: the more people shared its waters, the more powerful it grew, as if the Benevolence and Sapience flowed back into it. Health and humanity wanted to be shared.

Nobody else could become perfect…but everyone could be what they wanted, thanks to the blessing of the Fountain Goddess. Or, as they called her these days, the Goddess Fountain. Bodies of water aren’t terribly picky about names.