Varin
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Davian almost felt pity for the Darkness Champion's loss. Almost. His balance was off a bit, and he stumbled a step, biting back a curse as his wounded foot would not support him as fully as he wanted. That discordant, draconic roar would not allow him to focus. And then the arrow connected with the sands. Davian was thrown backwards, further towards the Fire Pillar. The ambient heat was getting intense, nearly uncomfortable. Davian started cart wheeling his limbs, flailing to halt his momentum, yet it may be too late. Davian's balance was shaken. Aiden had given him a gift and a curse. That damned archer turned the whole situation on end once more. He stumbled back another step, arms still wheeling in air. Another pace and his left arm would be submersed to the wrist in the flowing lava. Davian's next lurching step was with his wounded right foot; his entire body fell towards the pillar, left arm backward. The final thing Davian felt was remorse that he hadn't made a better showing of himself, remorse that he couldn't hold onto his convictions, and then, nothingness. To onlookers, Davian would have entertained even the most jaded of Arena goers. His blood ran free from his scalp, his foot gushed blood through shattered bones cloven asunder by Aiden's glaive. And then, he fell straight into the Fire Pillar; lava igniting clothes and greedily consuming flesh. Perhaps an onlooker noticed the red tinged hue on his flesh touch his right hand before he staggered in the rest of the way, but who would know what it meant? Awareness. Darkness. Heat, blessed heat. Something stirred in the heart of the Fire Pillar. The flow of molten rock seemed to divert itself around a man-shaped object in the center of the Pillar. The rock parted around the being, but the purity of the fire suffused it with a corona of reds, whites, oranges, and yellows. What it was was not readily apparent, a man, a creature, a monster? It was hard to tell. It knew what it was, it had been trapped in that pour soul's body for the duration of, well, it was enough. This being knew nothing more than the joy of flame, the wonder in heat. It raised a hand and pointed at the fallen glaive before the Fire Pillar and the wooden haft combusted quite beautifully. This creature chuckled happily to itself, more than quite content with the incineration. A random lift of its limb and a falling leaf, brown with the advent of fall, flashed to ash with the whim of this being. An unfortunate goose, separated from it's pack, winged its way over the arena. Another pointing gesture and someone in the arena was coughing, the singed odor of the goose tickling their sensitive nostrils, nothing showed there was ever any bird except one stray feather, twirling placidly on the wind. All the while, the being chortled in delight, soaking in the wash of heat as a sponge would water if left in a bucket. The creature turned, arms outstretched, letting the fount of heat and flame stream over its form. Like a cat in the sunlight, it basked, never a care but for the heat, but for Fire. Fire. Honor. For the Honor of Fire. The creature was in a quandary, if it could even be said to think. These notions were not new to it, never that, ingrained to it's core. Fire above all else. It giggled as a not-quite-molten chunk of lava tickled it between it's shoulder blades. Of course Fire above all else, how else would it be? It seemed to remember the remnant of a purpose. To spin? Again it tittered and threw it's arms out wide, turning in a lazy circle, thriving in the blissful fount of fire. To win. That was the charge put to it's host. Former host. Now that it came to the elemental, it could feel the insatiable itch behind it's mind, or whatever it used to think. To cover the world in ash, to burn all that can burn and melt that which can't. Again the hand lifted and pointed, the tip of the glaive heated red, white, melted into the sand, the sand turned to glass and melted into the liquid steel in the space of another eye blink. It laughed with pure mirth at the enjoyment of the action. Of the other two contestants, this being had no real desire to follow it's missive, it was having too much fun turning the area around the Fire Pillar to molten glass to care overmuch of the Archer and the Liquid.
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