I think trusting and protecting the voices in our head that wanted to hurt people isn't a great idea. We know this world has various malicious entities.
1) We don't actually know the voice wanted to hurt people. The only indicator was "Tell us, are they prey?" -- and that could be any number of meanings, right down to simply having a bestial mindset and having witnessed Blake being attacked by someone.
2) There's a
massive gap between "responding to incessant whispering in order to make it stop" and "trusting and protecting the voices". Just opening enough of a dialogue to figure out how to get it to shut up if nothing else seems advisable: it's certainly not going to stop poking at her.
3) Literally all we know right now is that it's a Black entity. Are we already going to unilaterally consign all Black entities to malicious status out the gate? Because if so that doesn't exactly bode well for us in the long-term.
Liquid Horizons sounds nice.
It matches well with the goal of gaining a well rounded magical toolkit from this plane.
I thought that initially as well, but the more I think about it, the more I think Sylph Symphony might be the better choice. The setting has a
lot of magical devices, and Blake has already learned multiple useful techniques just by studying them. Having the chance to go a new route with this Quest as opposed to the Jade Igni quest in terms of the crafting route would also be interesting. Plus, the idea of a proper Gambol Shroud Artifact amuses me greatly. Mechashift tech plus magical Artifactery plus Dust-tech is a pretty solid win when it comes to potential combat wankery at the scale Blake can currently conceive of ...
And on top of that, Sylph Symphony is going to be a good place to just have a damn moment to
breath. Blake is currently working through the trauma of both betraying Adam and
having died in the process. Let's not forget that.
@Alivaril -- I can't get this thought out of my head now. Is there a possibility that Blake could use Drain Life as part of her Aura training routine? Work out how to store the energy in her Aura or draw from it, increase her total Aura without the Dark Vigor drawbacks, use her Aura as a "battery" for Mana magic, etc? It's just that the energies
seem very similar.