Role

Chapter 3

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Who can tell the reason's behind politics, beyond the desire for dominion and
power. Resentment had been building for some time against the rising power of
the necromancer's guild within the city of Teth Azeleth, spies for months had
been watching their comings and goings, and it turned out, they had been
infiltrated by a one. Hlandinis had suspected the bumbling student who had
been thrust into their ranks, but failed to realize they were also a skilled
thief. For in the dead of night the infiltrator had shadowed him one night as
he instructed Khalmarnasa in the ways of Destuvius. The power of necromancy
was one thing, heresy was another. None may pray to any God other than the
Spider God within the walls of Teth Azeleth. The backlash was swift and
violent. The battle was fierce as there were few within their halls who would
willingly go to the Spider Goddess' sacrificial altars. The air crackled with
words of power, dead minions and reanimated limbs clawed and rent the flesh
of the soldiers of the High Priestess. Their numbers, however, proved
superior when coupled with the power of her shaman, and eventually only a
small pocket of students, including Khalmarnasa, and Hlandinis remained. He
spat a curse, knowing that there would be no good end, and in an instant he
called on lore known to only a few of their race. With a word and the casting
of several components, a circle of dead flesh arose around them, wrenching
itself from the ground on which they stood. The blows of their adversaries
fell upon it with no effect, and fiercerly he glared at those who remained. A
void in the ground had opened up revealing a tunnel below. 'GO!' he
commanded, 'NOW!' The students stumbled down into the darkness, but as
Khalmarnara moved past him he seized her arm. 'Seek my cousin Chrysilin' he
hissed 'she is a master of our guild in the overworld. She will continue your
instruction.' Their eyes locked, and she knew she would not see him again.
And so began her life in the overworld.
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