Chapter 35: The Perpetually Raining City

The next day the party set out from Lastonbell and headed to Pendrago they walked there for the next week and a half. It was very uneventful for Rose but for Sorey on the other hand he investigated one of the slanted towers of the Meadow of Triumph speculating with Mikleo on their function and methods of construction. However, unfortunately, for Sorey the trip to Pendrago became rather restless for him. He slept less as they went on but his own fighting became sloppier as the days went on. Dezel also noticed this and asked if he was all right to which Sorey would respond with: "I'm fine, don't worry about me." They both knew that Sorey was lying but they didn't dwell on it. And every night he would try to sleep but have a reoccurring dream that seemed to have gotten worse the closer they got to Pendrago. When they were closer to Lastonbell, and even long before, he dreamed of an accident from five years ago but as they got further from there it escalated to the aftermath of the accident, to mutilated bodies, to a fucked up psychotropic drug trip. As they went on the events of the dream got worse and more surreal than the previous night. Eventually leading him to shoot up from the ground he was sleeping on gasping for air. He would sit up for a while then lie back down unable to go back to sleep.

"Hey." He heard someone say one night. He turned to see Mikleo next to him, he jumped back startled. "Are you okay?"

"Um … yeah. I'm fine." He said. Mikleo gave him an annoyed look and a tap on the head.

"Come on. We all know you're lying just so you don't worry us when it's getting more obvious that you're not getting much sleep." Said Mikleo. "Come on, what's going on?"

"Well it's a bad dream that reminds me that I don't like Pendrago." Said Sorey.

"Is it because the people are terrible there?" Mikleo asked.

"No, the city itself is fine." Said Sorey, "The people are fine and the Shrine Church I'm sure is an amazing place but it always reminds me of something I've done." The two were quiet for a bit.

"You want to talk about it?" Mikleo asked.

"… No." Said Sorey.

"All right." Said Mikleo.

"Why are you up?" Sorey asked.

"… Reasons." Said Mikleo.

"Don't you need to sleep as well?" Sorey asked.

"I technically don't need sleep." He said giving Sorey a sad smile. "As long as I just rest for some time I'll be fine."

"Okay." Said Sorey.

"Come on, go back to sleep, you'll function better that way." Said Mikleo.

"All right." Said Sorey. And for a moment he seemed better.

Then there was also the fact that once they got to Pearlots Pasture it started raining in a nonstop deluge which soaked Rose and Sorey rather quickly.

"God I'm so cold and drenched!" Rose complained.

"Well it's warm and cozy inside you." Said Edna.

"That is weird but dammit! I'm jealous!" Rose shouted.

"Hey! There's a dwelling over there!" Sorey shouted. Rose squinted through the rain getting in her eyes to see something that might have been a small fortress not that out of the way from Pendrago which was still a ways away. They ran to the dwelling with plants growing on and out of it hilariously making it the most forested place around the Pendrago area. They looked up to see some candle light through the window.

"Huh. Looks like this place is still functioning." Said Edna.

"You know of this place?" Rose asked.

"Well it's Greyskull Keep." Said Edna.

"Yeah, it's a historical site that has been … mostly maintained for two hundred years and Vox Machina's old home. It was a major site for local tourism but recently not many people have been going to it." Said Sorey. "Well for reasons outside of the rain."

"How come?" Rose asked.

"Well there are rumors that the place is haunted."Said Sorey.

"Haunted?!" Rose exclaimed. Sorey then knocked on the door. "Dude what the hell are you doing?! You don't knock on a place that's haunted!"

"What's gotten into you?" Sorey asked.

"You said it's rumored to be haunted so…" Said Dezel.

"Shut it." Said Rose.

"Oh come on Rose, you have disembodied seraphim talk to you all the time. Besides, it's just the care takers pulling pranks on any late night intruders." Said Sorey. He knocked again. "Hello? Helloooo~! We need a place to stay for the night!" The door creaked open. "Huh. It's unlocked." Sorey started walking in.

"Wait! Sorey! What are you doing, don't you know that this is a deathtrap?!" Rose cried.

"Rose, it's fine, the care takers just have a flare for the dramatic." Said Sorey. "Besides no one has died here."

"No way man! I'm not going in." Said Rose. "I'm gonna stay out here." That's when the seraphim came out and shoved her in. "Hey! What are you doing?!"

"We are not letting you die out here in the rain and cold." Said Mikleo. "Just get in the keep!" And they shoved her into a rather cozy front room lit with a lot of little candles with shells and pieces of glass hanging on string from the ceiling though some of the strings fell onto the floor and off to the side of one room there were two paintings. One of them was a rather enormous but beautifully realistic painting of a pair on a horse, a man and a woman the man had brown hair blowing in the wind with a well toned body with his chest partly exposed. The woman on the other hand had her arms draped around him with her hair tied up and an absurdly long scarf flowing in the wind and manages to look pretty sexual even though she was in a full suit of armor. The second one right next to it was a much smaller painting with looser brushstrokes but of several people gathered together for what looks like a wedding and there was a bear there for some reason but nonetheless the main couple look very happy surrounded by their presumed friends and family. However below the painting there was a vase of flowers on top of a very old and dusty stack of books, a couple of precious looking stones bunched on the floor next to it, a flute that leaned against the wall and a pair of glasses as well as a pair of blue feathers hung off the painting's frame. The flowers and feathers were very recent additions due to the lack of degradation.

"It looks like a shrine." Said Sorey. Just then there was a gust of wind slamming the door shut.

"OH GOD WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Rose shouted.

"Woooooooo…" They heard someone say.

"Eek! Who said that?" Rose shouted.

"Woooooooooooooooooo…" A different voice said.

"Gah!" Rose shrieked jumping onto Sorey.

"Ow! Rose! Hey!" Sorey shouted. Edna sighed and rolled her eyes. She looked up at the ceiling. Then a white figure jumped out from the hall. Rose shrieked shaking Sorey causing the two to fall to the ground.

"OOGA BOOGA AH!" The figure shouted then tripping on itself falling flat on its face. Though Rose was still panicking and screaming to notice anything. Some of the others were hearing some snickering from the ceiling.

"Rose." Said Sorey trying to get her attention. Dezel walked up to the white figure and pulled off the sheet covering it. "ROSE!" Sorey shouted. "It's just a seraph!"

"Wait really?" Rose asked. Sorey pointed to the female seraph with red hair and green tips wearing a green flowy garment and an antler headdress rubbing her head.

"Er … hi!" The wind seraph greeted.

"Vax, how long have you been convincing your partner to join you in your pranks now?" Edna asked loudly at the ceiling. The rest of the party heard something land and turned to a male seraph but much pastier than the other seraph with black hair and white tips and wearing a black leathery outfit with so many feathers on it that even Sorey would consider it to be extra.

"Oh it hasn't been long Edna, just fifty years." He said.

"You didn't think of trying to get me or Grog?" Said Edna sounding somewhat offended.

"Grog is the usual victim and you're actually really hard to find." Said Vax.

"Wait wait wait wait …" Said Mikleo "Edna you know them? And you two have been taking care of Greyskull Keep?"

"Well yeah, Greyskull was our home." Said Vax.

"Well technically our home is the road due to my people not sticking to one place since doing that screwed us over a thousand years ago …" The female seraph rambled. "Plus we technically haven't been taking that good care of it as part of it collapsed though it did make a good expansion to my garden ..."

"So who are you?" Dezel asked.

"Hm … just like the stories say … red hair … antlers … kind of dorky wind seraph…" Sorey muttered to himself, "You're … Keyleth aren't you?" Sorey asked.

"Yeah!" Said Keyleth, "I'm Keyleth of the Wind Ashari."

"Wait … The Ashari are seraphim?" Sorey asked, Keyleth enthusiastically nodded. "If that's the case why are your people so mistrusting of the Shepherd?"

"Well … I wasn't around when it happened but according to my people the Shepherd from around a thousand years ago … well … Long story short it ended up with a drastic reduction in Ashari numbers and our tribes ended up being forever isolated from each other." Said Keyleth.

"Oh …" Said Sorey "Um … so … do you hate Shepherds like Rose or Gabriel? And why did you work with Pike?" Dezel turned to Sorey when he mention the name 'Gabriel'.

"Pike became a really good friend … She was kind of the glue that held us together even though we were split between two Shepherds." Said Keyleth "I never knew Gabriel but Rose seems pretty cool … I think … I can't believe I managed to scare her though …"

"Hey!" Rose snapped.

"Oh don't get insulted by it. That was hilarious." Said Vax patting Rose's shoulders. "C'mon, Let's eat."

"Wait really?" Said Rose.

"You don't mind that we just walked in to get out of the rain?" Mikleo asked.

"Well what do you want us to do? Leave you out and let you freeze to death?" Vax asked. "Come on, let's get those clothes to dry and talk over some tea and a meal."

"But where…" Sorey began.

"Oh just take any of the two rooms and I think there might be some old clothing in the closest that hasn't rotted through." Said Vax.

"Are you sure?" Rose asked.

"Yeah it's perfectly fine." Said Vax.

"… Okay …" Said Rose as they left the front hall and went up the stairs and went into two of the ten rooms that were up there, or rather nine rooms and part of Keyleth's garden as rain water was seeping out from the bottom of the door there. Rose and Sorey picked rooms that were as far away from Keyleth's garden as possible. They changed out of their wet clothes and went down stairs to where the seraphim were cooking and talking. When the humans arrived they looked at the two in sheer disbelief for a while then Vax burst out laughing, Edna started snickering, Keyleth was trying to hold in any laughter but couldn't help but smile Mikleo looked on in disbelief while Dezel looked confused.

"What? They look fine to me." He said.

"Your wind vision can't detect clothing can it?" Mikleo said.

"It's not wind vision it's wind reading." Dezel clarified. "And no I can't I can only get basic forms nothing on top of them."

"I guess that might be a good thing." Said Mikleo.

"Oh come on … it's not that bad" Said Keyleth. "Well at the very least Sorey rocks it."

"Really?" Said Sorey wearing a tight dress looking thing made up of some scraps of fabric but was mostly leaves that were replaced within the last week. "I thought I looked like I haven't left a tree in years. Plus this is really itchy."

"Hey at least you found something that fits you somewhat decently. You have no goddamn idea how hard it was to put these pants on." Said Rose in a rather frivolous outfit that was so obviously so small that it was miracle that she could walk in it without it falling apart with every step.

"Well … at least it's just for tonight …" Said Sorey with a shrug.

So they get together for dinner with some tea, well technically an herbal blend, with stuff from Keyleth's garden, which according to her she's not quite sure if some of the things are actually poisonous to humans. So the two humans opted for some booze along with Keyleth.

"So … yer the shepherd eh?" Keyleth asked thoroughly drunk.

"Hell yeah!" Said Rose about just as drunk.

"And yoooooooou're the squire!" Keyleth cheered.

"Yeah…" Said Sorey just kind of buzzed and gingerly sipping at some pretty aged wine.

"So who's da prime Lord? Is it you?" Keyleth asked pointing to Zenrus.

"I'm afraid not Lady Keyleth" Said Zenrus, "It's her." He pointed to Edna. Keyleth started laughing.

"Oh that's a good one Mister? Lord? Zenrus uh … I don' know what should I call you?" Said Keyleth Edna glared at her wanting to whack her over the head with her umbrella. She almost went through with it too if Dezel hadn't grabbed her arm signaling her that she shouldn't hit someone in their home when she's a guest.

"How about you think about that when you've sobered up, Okay?" Said Zenrus.

"Heh heh … yeah … yeah maybe." Said Keyleth.

"So … you managed to be Prime Lord huh?" Said Vax. "I didn't think you would care enough about the Shepherds and well … other people to do it. Since I remember you being an ass to my sister and Percival."

"It wasn't really by choice." Said Edna, "I'm just doing this for Lailah since for whatever reason she's running around with Sigfried."

"You mean the only gun that was made long before Percival?" Vax asked.

"The very one." Said Edna.

"I thought Zavied would still have it." Said Vax.

"Well he doesn't, though speaking of which did you or Keyleth see him or my brother within the last twenty years?" Edna asked.

"I don't think so," Said Vax "I thought Eizen would be on Rayfalke and Zavied died from frostbite due to being an exhibitionist."

"Well to be fair we don't know what happened to them as they seemed to have dropped off the map some time after the age of chaos started." Said Zenrus. "But sometime during the last twenty years Zavied gave Sigfried to Lailah …"

"And she's been using it to try to kill the dragon that's on Rayfalke." Said Mikleo.

"There's a dragon on Rayfalke now?" Vax asked.

"Yeah." Said Edna, "While you were … here and I was in Lady Lake taking over for Lailah, Meebo over there and someone else took up residence in Rayfalke and that someone else ended up turning into a dragon somehow about five years ago."

"Well while you and your currently shitfaced Shepherd go and try to find whatever Lord of Calamity is fucking everything over, put the thing down." Said Vax. Mikleo then stood up suddenly silencing the ambiance of Rose and Keyleth laughing their asses off at Sorey's drunken historical musings. "You all right?"

"How could you…" Mikleo muttered.

"What was that?" Vax asked.

"How could you say that?" Mikleo asked back raising his voice.

"Because it's the truth." Said Vax. "Dragons can't be turned back into seraphim. So you're better off just offing the thing before it causes any trouble."

"I doubt it. Since Mikleo has that oath that keeps Bahamut confined to Rayfalke." Said Dezel.

"Even so, killing Bahamut is still the greatest mercy you can give it, for both it and Meebo." Said Vax.

"I am losing someone that I cared about. How the hell is that a mercy?" Mikleo exclaimed.

"Because oath that powerful can and will put a strain on you. If it isn't already doing so." Said Vax.

"What?" Said Mikleo.

"Oh ya know … seraphim get more powerful wit' age or sometin'." Said Keyleth. "So dragon impri… im prfff, … keeping is some ya need to be around for at least a hundred years shit."

"Miss Keyleth, I think you've had enough." Said Zenrus.

"So what? I should just break the oath and let Bahamut go free until someone kills him?" Asked Mikleo.

"Oh god no! Do you know how dangerous it is to break oaths?" Exclaimed Vax. "I'm saying trying to maintain the power to imprison a fucking dragon without decades of training would likely get you killed the longer you maintain it! You're better off killing it!"

"But we can still save him. There has to be another way other than just killing him!" Mikleo snapped back, Vax stood.

"There is no other way!" Vax shouted slamming his hands onto the table. "Trying to find another way is downright suicidal and will just end in death!"

"But that has to be a last resort! There just has to be another way!" Insisted Mikleo.

"How many dragons do you think I've fought when I was human? How many?" Vax asked. "Do you think I didn't try to find a different way to save them?" Silence. "Believe me Meebo I tried to turn them back into seraphim, I begged Keykey and my lord to spare them because I thought there had to be another way! I tried to speak to Maotelus about it then making everyone try hairbrained theories. But in the end none of them worked and they got us injured while one of our dear friends died!" He sat back down. "… I know you want to believe that you could bring dragons back to the way they were but the sad truth is they're no longer the seraphim you once knew. They're just a shadow that might as well be wearing the skin of a seraph. But that shadow is not the same thing as a seraph, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh, or think, or do anything that makes a seraph a seraph. Dragons are just mindless, unfeeling beasts that make everything around it just miserable. The sooner you realize this the better. Otherwise you'll end up either dead or losing a loved one that you've gained through your journey." Mikleo glared at him for a while then stormed off. The rest of the night ended up being quiet and awkward until they went to bed. The next morning the seraph pair prepared a rather crappy breakfast with another ambiguous herbal blend that Rose and Sorey didn't want to drink. However the tension between Vax and Mikleo stuck around as Mikleo wouldn't talk to or look at Vax the whole time until Rose and her party left for Pendrago.

When they got to Pendrago they noticed that the city seemed almost deserted with the occasional person running to get out of the rain. They walked through town when they saw some of Maltran's soldiers facing off against a lizard hellion. Rose and Sorey ran forwad drawing their weapons the hellion looked at them, hissed, then jumped away.

"Hey! HEY! Get back here you son of a bitch! You owe us a new window!" Shouted the woman from Gleivland Basin that Rose made a deal with during the war.

"Shane I am terribly sorry about-." Alisha started.

"Oh save it." She said she then turned to a dark skinned woman in a simple outfit. "Are you all right babe?"

"I'm fine." Said the woman. "But it's been getting harder to keep a living since I'm constantly paying for the damages to the inn by church bastards."

"Now now I don't think that it's quite that bad." Said Maltran.

"Ugh … You sound just like Captain Goudman." Shane groaned. "It's been a whole damn year and the damage to our property has been getting worse and no one is doing anything about it! That man could've attacked my wife today and we would've been alone dealing with the aftermath!" The sniper's wife noticed Rose and Sorey in the background.

"Oh hello!" She greeted. "I am terribly sorry that you had to see this." The other soldiers looked.

"Shepherd!" Said Maltran.

"Rose!" Alisha cried at the same time as her teacher.

"You!" The soldier shouted at the same time as the other two.

"I assume you saw all that." Said Maltran.

"Well yeah." Said Rose, she then turned to the soldier she got the gun from. "And it's nice to see you again. Uh … Shane is it?"

"Yes. Yes it is." Said Shane.

"And I didn't know you were married." Said Rose.

"That's because we made a deal that I would give you my gun if you took out the sniper without killing him and left you there." Said Shane. She then looked over to Maltran. "Don't tell Goudman."

"I won't." Said Maltran, "But I can't guarantee with some of my soldiers." She then side eyed the soldiers that accompanied the two, and Alisha.

"But yes she is married." Said the woman. "I'm Emily, the owner of this inn, and her wife. Now shall we get out of this rain?"

"Oh finally." Said Edna.

"Yes! Please!" Said Rose.

"Well if you two plan to stay for the night I can't give you the room that has a broken window as well … it has a broken window." Said Emily. "God I need to refund that one staying there and perhaps get him a new room."

"Head back to the tower, Alisha you stay with me." Maltran ordered the other soldiers.

"Yes mam." They all said with the other two soldiers running off and they all went inside. Inside was far warmer but the guests inside were murmuring amongst themselves a bit worried.

"Well go on. Don't just stand there!" Said Emily to the band playing off to the side where the violinist looked very familiar.

"All right." Said Andy. "A one, two, three …" The drum started beating and the other instruments followed. Rose looked over and gave a small wave while Andy gave her a wink.

"How much is a room?" Rose asked.

"1000 gald a night and that includes meals and access to the bar." Said Shane. Rose counted out the gald and gave it to Emily. Emily put it in a pouch on her apron, she went behind the front desk and gave her a key.

"Don't worry, it's not the room that has the broken window." Said Emily.

"We'll talk there." Said Maltran.

"Shane, do you mind if we also talk with you?" Sorey asked. Shane looked over to her wife.

"Hey. I always take care of the inn while you're with the knights, we don't have many guests tonight, it's fine." Said Emily. "And besides, we have a decent band playing tonight."

"I know I know." Said Shane with a small chuckle. She then gave her wife a kiss and headed into the room with the rest of the group.

"So what's been going on here?" Rose asked.

"Well it's been raining for several months now." Said Maltran.

"When did this start happening?" Rose asked.

"It started about a year ago when the pope disappeared and the cardinal took over." Said Maltran. "And recently she's been cooped up in the church where nobody has been able to see her."

"Honestly it's looking pretty bleak, as our crops have been failing that we came up severely short during last year's harvest and we're currently relying on imports from Hyland." Said Alisha. "And with the war I'm afraid that we might end up dealing with a boycott or higher tariffs on Hylandian goods."

"You know, when I last went to Flamestone they had a booming fishing industry and created a facility to grow plants that thrive in warmer temperatures during winter." Said Edna. "Just saying, it could help them to try to open trade with their northern neighbor."

"Have you guys tried to open relations with Flamestone?" Rose asked. "They're not at war with you and you could get cheaper goods."

"Rose, if a freelance, no boarders, trading guild couldn't get anything from Flamestone do you think an empire would have any more luck?" Zenrus asked.

"About that …" Said Alisha. "Both the church and the royal family have heard stories of Flamestone. So everyone is honestly pretty terrified of them, we fear that with their superior technology they could easily crush us."

"Doesn't that sound a bit overly paranoid?" Rose asked. "I mean we haven't heard anything about them wanting to wage war."

"Regardless." Said Maltran turning the subject back on track. "We've been on edge with the church when the Pope left, as he was the one that tended to act as a mediator between the knights and the church."

"So things went to shit when he disappeared right?" Said Rose.

"Well … yeah … things essentially went to shit." Said Alisha. Rose snorted then Sorey swatted her arm. "What?"

"Oh nothing." Said Rose.

"Anyway. Is there anything that you might need our help with?" Sorey asked.

"Well we do need to investigate the Cardinal to see if she really is behind the Pope's disappearance." Said Maltran. "And we've tried, however all of our 'investigators' have disappeared as soon as we sent them into the Shrine Church."

"Not to mention that we all get yelled at for having the 'audacity to walk in the church like we own the place' when we investigate." Said Shane cutting in. "And I don't know about them but I get a few 'dykes,' 'faggots,' and 'Go burn in hell with your slut of a wife' thrown in." Rose looked at her for a brief moment slightly horrified then went back to Maltran. Shane then turned to Alisha and Maltran. "What? Did you guys think you're the only ones that are suspicious about the circumstances of the Pope's disappearance and suspect the Cardinal may have something to do with it?"

"So do you want us to mediate between you and the Cardinal?" Rose asked.

"Well not so much mediate as bust in there and get information out of the Cardinal herself." Said Alisha with a shrug.

"Okay." Said Rose.

"Wait don't we need permission to be able to enter and speak with the Cardinal?" Sorey asked. "I mean, despite being told not to you got involved in the conflict between the knights and the church and stuff like this has mainly set you firmly on the side of the knights."

"Oh right!" Said Mikleo "Judging from the treatment Shane gets along with presumably other knights for just being on the grounds you need to ask if you could come in."

"Also you guys tend to get snapped at when you're on the church grounds." Sorey repeated. "So shouldn't we get some sort of permission to get the Shepherd to talk to the Cardinal with the agreement that no knights would be involved?"

"Well … theoretically maybe …" Said Alisha with another shrug, "But that would require either talking to the Cardinal herself but I think that wouldn't end very well as well …"

"Every knight we try to send in to investigate the Cardinal is missing and honestly we think they're dead." Said Maltran.

"Yeah …" Said Alisha. "The other way is trying to have Emperor Lyte or Empress Dowager Nadia give you that permission. However … my standing with them is not so good."

"That's an understatement." Sorey muttered under his breath then giving a fake cough.

"Fine, the three of us down right hate each other." Said Alisha.

"How come?" Rose asked.

"Well this is due to several unfortunate deaths and affairs." Said Zenrus.

"How so?" Dezel asked.

"Well Lyte is now emperor being the only son of the late Emperor, Doran, to survive a power struggle that killed his other sons, Konan and Leon." Zenrus started. "The rest of his children are daughters."

"Unlike Flamestone, the Kingdoms of Glennwood only would have sons inherit thrones, daughters can't unless they marry an ally." Said Edna.

"Right. However unlike Konan and Leon, Lyte was the child of a concubine, so that's why the Empress Dowager doesn't like the current Emperor, and the hatred is mutual between them. As for Alisha, she was the result of a fling between the late Emperor and a common prostitute." Said Zenrus.

"Oh … oh no." Said Mikleo coming to the realization of Alisha's familial situation.

"Yes Mikleo, oh no is right." Said Zenrus. While Maltran, Alisha, and Shane explained the same exact thing, not that Rose listened.

"So getting permission from the Emperor or Empress Dowager is out of the question." Said Rose.

"Basically." Said Alisha.

"However I can try to talk to other knight captains and some other princesses, duchesses, or any other position Doran's daughters hold that are on better terms with Alisha. Or at the very least get one of their kids to convince mom to help out Auntie Alisha." Said Maltran, Alisha blushed at the 'Auntie Alisha' remark. Rose looked at Maltran somewhat hopeful "What? You didn't honestly think that Alisha was the only one did you?"

"I hoped she wasn't." Said Rose.

"Um … Good?" Said Alisha.

"Anyway I'll try to make arrangements and I'll let you know as soon as I can." Said Maltran then standing up. "Come Alisha." Alisha jolted up and followed her teacher. Shane also stood up and started to leave.

"Shane." Said Rose stopping her, "Do you know how the Flamestone Firecracker or whatever you ended up calling it works?"

"Well … sort of." Said Shane. "Meet me at the shooting range tomorrow."

Yeah I kinda made notes for myself about Alisha's large in AU family with siblings, nieces, and nephews far more likely to take the throne than she would even though that was already heavily implied in the game *cough*anime*cough*. And as for her mother being a prostitute trust me that was a thought long before I started writing this fanfiction. And due to the fact that she's a prostitute in the AU ... in a time period without effective birth control ... or safe methods of abortion... Alisha has other siblings from her mom's side of the family. And you've probably already met one of them like two chapters back. So basically she has a fucking huge family in the AU and Alisha is considered the cool vodka aunt on her dad's side of the family.

Oh and as a side note Vax is a void seraph and Edna met him (And by extension Keyleth) in a pretty fucked up way that involved a kidney and her brother covered in gore.