One of the archfiends themselves could have offered me a deal in that moment and I would have taken it.
[ Which, while not a pleasant "what if" to explore, is quite true. Winter had been desperate, dying and hurt and angry. Anything that gave him the opportunity to continue to draw breath would have been enough, even if it had ultimately cost him his soul. ]
But, thankfully, my patron is not so ambitious. I'm left largely to my own devices, and the most they ever ask me for, after having freed them of course, is knowledge. It's part of why I'm here. To learn new things to share with them.
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One of the archfiends themselves could have offered me a deal in that moment and I would have taken it.
[ Which, while not a pleasant "what if" to explore, is quite true. Winter had been desperate, dying and hurt and angry. Anything that gave him the opportunity to continue to draw breath would have been enough, even if it had ultimately cost him his soul. ]
But, thankfully, my patron is not so ambitious. I'm left largely to my own devices, and the most they ever ask me for, after having freed them of course, is knowledge. It's part of why I'm here. To learn new things to share with them.