Temples is incredible for multiple reasons, I think-- I think this all very much dovetails into the past life self.
At least partly that's because the class divide thing is intentional-- I fully intended to make the past self something of a social outcast, ineligible for marriage and therefore courting (and therefore, at least partially, deep friendships among other nobility), whose fortunes changed vastly when the Abyssal War began:
As a Prism-level user of Temple Domain, she wasn't simply building holy sites anymore. She could protect, cleanse, and attack at the same time using holy light/consecration and was therefore instrumental to the evacuation... But since she was so vital to that, and her primary remaining holy nature was, well, the prophecy she hadn't fulfilled, it might have led to a pedestal just as damaging-- and an increasing separation from her peers as she hardened herself against the horror of war. Eventually, she lost faith in the Oracle, I think.
but, regardless, love came for her before she boarded the Nashira, and it was a whirlwind of emotion. They had a child, I'm fairly sure. I think her past life might say that those last years, after the Abyssal War started, after she found them, were the only years she truly lived. And maybe she said that with bitterness in her tongue, crying over her lover's corpse.
The exact nature of the tragedy is, as yet, unimportant.
As far as school goes, that's fine. Six weeks "in Chalra City" is enough.
ETA: ... But that also means her past life was, well, in contact with Asters a lot, given that she was doing the equivalent of city maintenance and civil infrastructure, wouldn't it? Even if it was at a relatively high level.
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At least partly that's because the class divide thing is intentional-- I fully intended to make the past self something of a social outcast, ineligible for marriage and therefore courting (and therefore, at least partially, deep friendships among other nobility), whose fortunes changed vastly when the Abyssal War began:
As a Prism-level user of Temple Domain, she wasn't simply building holy sites anymore. She could protect, cleanse, and attack at the same time using holy light/consecration and was therefore instrumental to the evacuation... But since she was so vital to that, and her primary remaining holy nature was, well, the prophecy she hadn't fulfilled, it might have led to a pedestal just as damaging-- and an increasing separation from her peers as she hardened herself against the horror of war. Eventually, she lost faith in the Oracle, I think.
but, regardless, love came for her before she boarded the Nashira, and it was a whirlwind of emotion. They had a child, I'm fairly sure. I think her past life might say that those last years, after the Abyssal War started, after she found them, were the only years she truly lived. And maybe she said that with bitterness in her tongue, crying over her lover's corpse.
The exact nature of the tragedy is, as yet, unimportant.
As far as school goes, that's fine. Six weeks "in Chalra City" is enough.
ETA: ... But that also means her past life was, well, in contact with Asters a lot, given that she was doing the equivalent of city maintenance and civil infrastructure, wouldn't it? Even if it was at a relatively high level.
.... Perhaps she had flings?