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Fiery red lightning streaks down from an icy blue sky.
An eerie, distant voice echos across the land 'I do not think your cause is one I would yet take up. Perhaps in time...but not now'
Turning, Shenara opens a portal and steps back into Thera...
A bright portal opens over Darsylon...as Shenara steps through, she rests a moment.
Staring at her hands a moment, then briefly to the east...she nods.
With a quick shimmer of power, she rises into the air...
And the Silver Falcon streaks off towards her old Tower.
With a shimmer in the air, the storms over Darsylon suddenly cease...as a strange aura of elemental power slowly flows through the sky.
Looking down from the Azure Fields, Shokai watches Shenara fly towards the Tower.
'Strange...'
Looking up from sharpening his axe, Garenth asks 'What be strange m'lord?'
'I thought she was planning on meeting me back at the Fortress when she was done with her errand.'
Testing the sharpness of his axe with his thumb, the dwarven lord says 'Ye're wantin' me ta'go see what she's about m'Lord?'
Glancing back at Shenara's flight, Shokai nods to Garenth 'aye, but don't follow as if you hunt, just keep your eye on her...if something is amiss,
call upon me'
Putting on his helm and grabbing his shield Garenth says 'I been needin' ta'stretch me legs a'bit anyhow. I'll keep me eye on her m'Lord'
Diving with incredible speed, Shenara drops from the sky over the Tower...
shimmering into her true form just in time to land upon the parapet.
Turning her empty gaze towards Shenara the Archmage snarls in an insane sneer.
A strange elemental shimmering surrounds the Tower.
'I have let your insanity run its course for far too long, Archmage... You are no longer worthy to watch over the Orb of Magic.'
Blinking her wide, unseeing eyes, the Archmage stares at Shenara...
'I've protected the students as you never could, Falcon.... they are safe, and beyond the Lich's power to harm.'
'You have turned this place of learning into a charnel house...'
Wrapped in the shadows, two unblinking eyes watch the exchange.
'Now it is time for you to pay for the lives of those who looked to you for understanding... time for you to pay for your betrayal of their trust.'
Bright bolts of arcane energy leap from Shenara's hands as she strikes the Archmage...
Quickly raising her hands in an arcane gesture, the air shimmers as the Archmage shields herself.
The air shimmers silvery-blue with arcane energy as Shenara draws upon the strength of Asgaard...
Staggering back under the force of the assault the Archmage swivels her head, trying to seek escape...
Still searching for anyway to escape the Archmage reaches into her robes...
'Take it then, Falcon! Choke upon it...and may it cause you the same blessing it has brought me'
As the Archmage shrieks this, she hurls a brightly glowing orb at the Silver Falcon...
In a flash Shenara, changes into the form of a falcon and streaks towards the Orb...
As the Falcon grabs the orb, the Archmage opens a shimmering portal and vanishes...
Reverting back to her half-elven form... Shenara stares defiantly at the fading portal.
'We will meet again soon, Archmage...and you'll pay for what you have done to those who trusted you.'
Giving one last baleful glance at the now faded portal, Shenara begins to examine the orb.
Behind her, the shadows slowly creep with movement...
A dark figure hovers, a black blade dripping a thick viscous slime...
Glaring through the darkness, the figure calls a shroud of darkness to creep over the Tower...blocking all sound from entering the room.
As darkness falls outside the Tower...
The air shimmers...the sky seems to flicker and fade.
'The last remnant...your Oracle has failed you for the last time...'
With the speed and deadliness of a hellspawned serpent...the Lich strikes the startled Shenara.
(in the Tower of the Five Magics area)
Shenara yells 'Help! I am being attacked by Valguarnera!'
Annalena yells 'I WILL GET YOU BETRAYER!!!'
The viscous slime-coated blade stabs into Shenara...
...glancing off her ribs as she turns...but leaving a savage wound.
Snarling with rage, Shenara leaps to her feet...
Gasping in pain and shock, Shenara falters...clutching her side as she wheels around to face her former student.
'What! How could this wound be! Your power can not harm me this much...'
'It is already finished, Shenara. Gasp your last breaths.'
Lowering his blade, the lich stands silent as Shenara struggles to stay standing.
Shenara tries to raise her arm and summon her power, but finds that the poison has sapped even that.
As Shenara collapses to the floor in a heap, the Lich speaks 'I will admit some pleasure in watching the process unfold.'
Gripping his axe, and raising his shield Garenth strides in...bristling with anger.
'Yer goin' ta'find yerself within' His flames shortly lich'
With a piercing battlecry...the dwarf launches himself at the surprised Lich.
(In the Tower of the Five Magics area)
Valguarnera yells 'Die, Garenth, you sorcerous dog!'
Parrying the blows of the enraged dwarf, the Lich says 'As always, a step behind, Sheepherder.'
Snarling and swinging his axe with an inhuman speed, Garenth growls 'I'm goin' ta'use yer bones ta'make a'bleedin' chair!'
'No, Garenth...they'll long be dust by then'
Wheeling around, Valguarnera stares at the Lord of the Maran.
'Bah, Skyborn! Here to give your minions a body to hide behind?'
Waving his hand quickly, the Lich opens a dark portal and steps through.
With a quick flick of his wrist, Shokai hurls his spear...striking the wall of the Tower just as the portal closes.
Turning the two Marans turn to the crumpled Shenara...her hands glowing from some last act of magic.
Frowning, Shokai kneels to look at the festering and oozing wound.
Staring at the floor Shenara speaks 'It's gone.... safe now... I sent the orb away.... from..him..I couldnt let him have it....again.'
Handing his Lord the spear he's retrieved from the wall, Garenth looks at the fatally wounded Shenara.
'I failed ye lass...ye will be avenged, me axe'll find tha' liches bleedin' skull I promise ye.'
As Shenara opens her mouth to speak to Garenth...a tiny shudder wracks her body, as her last breath escapes.
Moving swiftly, the Skyborn weaves light around the last of Shenara's spirit.
As the two Maran stare at the now lifeless body of Shenara, maggots begin to ooze from the wound...consuming the body slowly.
Behind the two Maran the air shimmers...
Moving as one, Shokai and Garenth wheel about...anticipating the return of the Lich.
With one swift movement, Shokai's spear whistles through the air...matched by the whistling of Garenth's twirling axe.
Instead of the presence of the Lich, it is another being unseen behind them... and a shrill scream of pain echoes as the spirit is cut cleanly in half.
Bright sparks begin to shimmer and flicker through the air over the Tower...as arcane energies rage wildly.
The sky over the Tower begins to blaze with bright fiery comets...
As the spear cleaves through its form, the elemental spirit whom Shenara had sought aid from falls to the ground.
An unnatural chilly wind whips into an icy fury around the Tower...
The ground around the Tower begins to buckle and split, as flame and ice leap from the ground and sky.
A grim look crossing his face as he realizes the true nature of the being, the Maran Lord leaps to the aid of the fallen spirit.
Unraveling the last breath of Shenara, Shokai guides it into the two halves of the elemental spirit.
Arcane lights flash and flare around the Tower...
Tapping the escaping latent magic used by the God Twist to form the Tower, now shattered by his spear, the Maran Lord uses it to fuse the elven
blood of the fallen goddess to the two halves of the spirit.
The ground shakes as the magic of the tower explodes violently...
Clutching the two healing spirits, and Garenth...Shokai races back to the Azure Fields.
Shattering with a flash that can be seen across the land....the Tower explodes.
The earth around the Tower shakes and trembles...buckling with the force of the arcane explosion.
Reboot: Rebooting NOW!
(small delay while we wait for everyone to reconnect)
High in the heavens above, two figures awaken to gaze upon the Maran Lord who rescued them.
(Author's note: A lot of the things said by the two figures begin in one "voice" (color) and end in another one. My log doesn't record color.)
'We are..
..alive still?'
Glancing at the two spirits, the Maran Lord nods.
'Aye, you live...but not as you did before.'
Moving as one, the two beings stare over their forms...
...and over the land far below them.
'We who were once one, now...
... are apart...what have you done to us?'
Staring in puzzlement, Garenth scratches his beard 'Two lass', one o'fire an tha'other o'ice, but they act as one...?'
Nodding to Garenth...Shokai's gaze shifts back to the two beings.
'You were slain in your former state, I though you to be the Lich returning. You are given life again from the last breath the Silver Falcon took'
'Her last was your first'
Scratching his beard, Garenth stares down at his axe and mutters.
Turning to Shokai, Garenth speaks 'Might'n we grant'em a place in tha'fortress? I feel a'owe what's left o'Shenara somethin'
Nodding slightly to the dwarven Shepherd, Shokai turns to look at the two beings.
Moving as one, the two nod.
'Shenara was a guiding teacher of the warlocks,
...the Golden Tower was her home...
...with her death, there are none to
...watch over her students...'
Inclining his head, Shokai speaks 'The Tower is yours if they will accept your guidance...how should they know you?'
'I, who wield my father's flame, shall be known as Savraeth...'
'...and I who possess his cold touch shall be called Ilraeth.'
Nodding grimly, Garenth extends his stubby hand 'Welcome home, tha both o'ye.'
(A 'who imm')
(53 Elf ANG) (PK) (WARLOCK) Ilraeth the Lady of Ice, Twin Goddess of the Mysteries
(51 Lich Nec) (PK) (SCION) Valguarnera Trisseptia, Bringer of the Eternal Night
(53 Elf ANG) (PK) (WARLOCK) Savraeth the Lady of Fire, Twin Goddess of the Mysteries
(51 Dwarf Sha) (PK) (MARAN) Garenth the Maran, Shepherd of the Enlightened
From the pen of:
valguarnera@carrionfields.com">Valguarnera Trisseptia
valguarnera@carrionfields.com
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