Editing Persephone Lapis (section)

===Background===
* ''What responsibilities did your community once count on you for?  How did you let them down?''
** My aptitude for magic was identified when I was still a grubling, and it was expected that when I had mastered my Art I would return to brood many offspring and improve the magical potential of the swarm.  After studying with the scholars in Clearharbor and developing a passion for studying the natural world, I opted not to return and to join with the Wildwardens... for now.
* ''You've spent your life searching for a book or object of great significance.  What is it, and why is it so important to you?''
** My studies made it clear that my home swarm and the other major faerie enclaves each first arose from a Hive of genetic and magical potential.  Old and fragmentary writings from long-ago naturalists suggest that in a primeval age there was a lost Great Hive of which the others are colonies and offshoots.  There are many mutually exclusive clues as to the location of the Great Hive; Rekin's Refuge is one possible location but details are so scant that there are many other equally promising leads.  I am in the course of building my master's thesis around the Great Hive theory, so finding some solid evidence to advance her thesis is a continuing preoccupation.
* ''You have a powerful rival.  Who are they, and why are you so determined to defeat them?'''
** Ren Trefaran is a highly placed human academic and sorcerer among the Clearharbor faculty -- a loreborne Primal sorcerer.  He was initially my assigned faculty adviser before we discovered that we didn't work well together.  (He disliked my adoption of a humanlike appearance, among other things.)  He has a wide range of contacts among the commercial interests that threaten Rekin's Refuge and has a number of projects in the works for ways to domesticate and exploit the Refuge, reshaping or destroying the natural habitats of many creatures in order to harvest them.