That's a large part of it. The relics-- they were capable of so much more than we thought they were, we knew they would be powerful, but the things they could do... the Gaia Sash drowned an archipelago in minutes. The Phoenixfire Gauntlet left nothing but circles of black glass where there used to be cities. The Oculus could create a black hole and eliminate a whole army-- entire wars were fought, over these objects.

[so, not so great in practice.

one or two people know about this, already, have at least some of the pieces, and there might be some element here of knowing that if she obscures the truth her memories could just put the lie to it. but she's already mentioned she made her staff, and she has some hope that he might kind of understand.

there are still parts of this she won't ever want to tell someone willingly, but there's no need to bring those up.]

They were created in the first place to stop an entity that seeks out their power source from ever finding our plane, to separate it out across the seven of them and hide the Light that we put into them. The original thought process was that this was a better option than seeing the world destroyed-- and I objected to that when it was first decided, too, but it isn't the only way. I couldn't... it just couldn't continue, not when there's still an alternative.