Memory 2: Baroness

What Happened
( This memory is set when Tazendra is around a century old and working for the Phoenix Guard.  )

Commentary
This memory will take the sting out of one of Tazendra's neg-sigs, the one where her parents die without telling her 'we gotta go out and protect the Duke of Arylle's son, instead of going to charge at that army, so be a good girl, mind your nurse and clear our names when you're older'.

This memory also has some second-hand awesome: I'm a soldier in His Majesty's Guard! We stopped an assassination attempt! Aerich regained his title by killing someone who needed killing!

Truthfully, at this point Tazendra should be able to realize that Aerich's little story was about her and him -- she remembers her own house, his house, and that they had two friends who were very close. Tazendra isn't always that prone to introspection.

Owing fealty to Aerich could be a problem, but I anticipate it's one that the two of them can sort out. But it adds even more into the 'Apus = protect', since now only is Aerich her friend, but she owes him her service.

Memory 3: Assassin

( Tazendra and Pel are walking back to Khaavren's place -- she's probably about 600 years old here.  )

Commentary
First combat memory! Honestly, Tazendra probably won't gain much of a boost here, besides in reaction time and aim, since it wasn't a fair fight at all. But she remembers the type of sword she favors, and will probably go ask Ophiuchus for one.

As for magic, she remembers now that she is a sorceress and one sufficiently skilled and knowledgeable to use it in a fight. On the other hand, she won't be able to cast anything in Sabra yet. Basically Dragaeran sorcery takes three things. The first is the knowledge of the spell. The second is a source of power -- Dragaera has seas of amorphia/chaos which serves nicely. The third is the Imperial Orb, an artifact that orbits the current ruler's head and does many useful things, one of which is serve as a filter between the raw power of amorphia and a citizen sorcerer's mind. One can cast without the Orb, but it takes extra knowledge to avoid Bad Things -- knowledge that Tazendra hasn't learned by the time of this memory because a) it's illegal and b) it's dangerous and c) why bother when the Orb is here and lets me blow stuff up really good. One can't cast without a power source, period*.

So as soon as she tries the spell, she'll realize that she can't use it here (yet), but won't really be able to verbalize why besides 'I have no link to the Orb' -- a bit like trying to get on the internet and having Firefox not found. (In this analogy, Elder Sorcery would be using the console...)

* I could tl;dr at you about my theories on sorcery versus witchcraft, but...