Role

Chapter 2

(Continued from Part I)

It is no wonder than that Keviatalon begin to hate his tormentors. Duergar
are easily given to such an emotion and combined with his clans distrust for
magic to begin with, Keviatalon fostered and developed a revulsion and enmity
towards wielders of magic that would only grow throughout the rest of his
life. The time ticked by unknown while Keviatalon Rockreaver remained
prisoner and only two things helped him maintain his sanity. The first were
the bones from those many that fell while he continued to survive the
suffering of the Dark-Elf magical experiments. They let him continue his art
and brought a distraction to a situation that was forced upon him. The
second was his planning and plotting. He knew he could not do much now, he
was shackled, gone was the chaos of chance, the daily wonderings of
adventure. Here he was encased and confined as a prisoner, devoid of
freedom. He planned, he plotted, and he determined his lifes course to
oppose all such mages. It mattered not if they called themselves good or
evil, mages to Keviatalon were like the most wicked of family clans. They
all claimed to use their magic for different things, but each passed down
what they had learned to others so that they might continue to use it.
Better that the magic should die with each of them unable to be passed on.

Ironically, Keviatalon would escape due to the fortune of those who
spend most of their life hunting duergars like himself. It was not a rescue,
but a crossing of fortune that brought opportunity to Keviatalon. One day in
a long string of many torturous days, a party of good-hearted adventurers
came in training to lay low the inhabitants of Teth Azeleth. It was during
this opportunity that Keviatalon Rockreaver was able to escape.

Keviatalon was forced to make his escape in their wake, and let them
do the work against the Drow Patrols. It grated at him that he could not yet
strike out in vengeance himself, but he vowed to return one day to exact his
own vengeance when he was stronger, without the lightwalkers doing it for
him. It was fortunate that Keviatalon was able to follow in the wakes of the
lightwalkers as they cut down the creatures of the underdark. For while
Keviatalon was taught to survive near his clans home, there were many Cave
Fishers and fiercer beings that Keviatalon could not yet overcome, but swore
again one day to overcome with his own savageness and strength.

Keviatalon Rockreavers escape came to pass and the plotting and
planning for the war to follow commenced. It would be a personal war, one
fought his whole life, struck out alone with only his own courage, savagery,
and wisdom. Yet Keviatalon realized that a war must also be fought with
others if great changes were to be made, and so did the young duergar
Keviatalon Rockreaver set out to find the Village of the Battleragers.