Warning - this is the big spoiler post - get all your theories out first before reading!
The memories for a brief moment seem like some vivid dream Ameena just had, delivered all at once, ready to be forgotten again. However, then her previous existence walking with the group and even Helm just now seems like the dream she just had, and now she is waking up.
Ameena remembers not just the agreeing to come to Anaias after the chance meeting in the tavern, but coming up to the mountain, and entering. The big black door in the side could be opened, and the party looked aroudn the Hall of Champions - hiundreds of pictures mounted on the walls of a huge hall, each depicting the likenesses of fallen heroes, with a centre space for those heroes who had - apparently - saved the world by defeating the High Lord Lord Chaos.
Westian had expounded upon it greatly, and they had carried on through the anti-chambers, with Westian getting increasingly worried. He had found some strange mark belonging to a 'Brother Deephold' he was searching for on one of the doors, and started following those marks.
Unlike the dream, it was Ameena, not Falkor, who had found the Grey cloak and almost trapped the party in the room - Haynuus keeping the door open himself to let the others through.
The group did not encounter Trolins, though the way had been smashed as before. The group did not get captured by soldiers, nor encounter a mummy, nor a ghost, instead finding their own way through the room Helm had given Ameena the secret of opening.
The group had encountered many terrifying creatures, and the soldiers. And Ameena recalled the group saving her life, and her saving their lives, many times as Westian grew more desperate at finding his fellow alive.
And Ameena recalled she had not turned her back on Falkor, because in her memory he had never used his spells except to help the group. And though he was slightly crotchety and had been like one of the eldest Murafu elders - after all, he was 45 and older than even Westian - they had looked out for each other as the taller ones had pressed ahead.
And Westian was determined and made sure the group stayed together, and Haynuus threw himself into any danger to save the rest. And they had all become true friends despite the oddness of each one of them.
And she had just left them.
And even as those memories came back, the memories of how they had ended up back here came back. The group had fought all of Gholsts minions, each one evil in their way and, regrettably, had to be stopped before they hurt more people.
A funny little gnome who commanded monsters, ones that were frightening in their natural form, but worse yet when they looked like you. When they looked like you, they hurt you when you attacked them.
And there was an elf whom Westian had instant hatred for, because the man worshipped dark High Lords and wanted to kill anyone who did not believe.
And there was a wild-eyed man with a strange weapon whom almost killed them all, but the group defeated.
And then there was a orc whom dressed up like Gholst, and whose armour was almost impenetrable. And it turned our that somehow, the man Westian called Theron, who was supposed to be their ally, was actually Gholst.
And the group had to use a teleporter to come back to the starting room with the cloak, and chase the man before he could leave.
However, Theron/Gholst had not realised the group had - when they defeated the evil elf - realised how to put back together a thing called a 'Soul Stone'
And the High Lord called the Grey Lord had returned.
And that was when Ameena had seen Gholst in his true form, a spirit of a tall man in armour constantly burning. And Theron had ejected Ghost, or tried to, but Gholst had held on somehow, was actually holding on to inside Theron as if grabbing his spin, and Theron was left dangling limp, telling the Grey Lord to destroy the monster. Whereas Gholst threatened to snap Theron if the Grey Lord didn't stand down.
And the group had tried to sneak up behind Gholst to defeat him, for they had strange baldes that could harm even the ethereal...
But Gholst had spotted them, and made a motion with his hand inside Theron and the apprentice to the Grey Lord had gone limp.
And Gholst laughed, for even as the Grey Lord grew angry, Gholst perhaps realised what was to happen. And perhaps the Grey Lord knew it too, for even as his expression darkened, and his eyes readened, he changed his outstretched hand from gesturing to Gholst to gesturing to the party. And had said simply, "No!"
And Ameena rememberd that brief sensation of being blown back, and of being in two places at once, and of remembering everything that had happened, and yet at the same time of only remembering everything two weeks ago before she mad met the group, and infact had just met Helm...
And she supposed it was in that state she had collapsed, because her mind threatened to do it again now as she recalled. However, she managed to shake off the feeling because she could feel she was back in her proper time again, and she was carrying her own items again, and she could remember all her skills again.
However, now in this huge hall with the many paintings, there was not Theron, nor Gholst, nor the Grey Lord. INstead, there was a tall, terrible figure standing, light coming from him liek one of Falkor's light spells, except the man himself seemed to be able to generate a strange darkness around himself even as the light revealed everything else.
And the features of the Grey Lord were visible under a huge horned helmet, but the flittering expressions of the man, and the burning red eyes of the man, proved this was not the Grey Lord.
Gholst's last act had been to break the spirit of the old High Lord. And now there stood the darkest impulses of the man - the one everyone had spoke of in hushed, terrified tones. This must be Lord Chaos.
And the High Lord looked angry, and then contemplative, and then finally seemed to settle on genuine, good natured laughter upon seeing Ameena.
"Welcome back,
brave adventurer!"
Heh, look, I started typing and all the words came out. Maybe not perfectly, but I gotta go soon, and it's too fun not to post this right now.
So yeah, Ameena can have some initial reactions to all of this I guess. AS can you as a player