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<blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5449299" data-attributes="member: 60965"><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"I imagine they do seem endless for when the dead gods were entombed, it was amidst massive ancient battlefields where they were finally brought down. When they stirred from their mausoleums, they had ample source for their dark armies."</span></p><p></p><p>The voice pauses.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"At the end the draw just outside the protection of my pool there is a path that leads to a plateau - a narrow, flat valley between the mountains where the ruins of an ancient city rest. Beyond are the caves of the Hungerers, an extinct race that first brought the scourge of necromancy into the world. In the depths of those caves there is an idol to their raven gods.</span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"The raven gods slowly, over decades, possessed the mind of a powerful hermit sorceress that has long dwelled in these mountains, imbuing her with their power. She is the one that created all these monstrosities... and she is learning more by the day. The Stalkers that you faced are the most powerful dead that have yet left the mountains, but deep in the bowels of the Hungerer's warrens, there may be more, far more terrible things.</span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"Before they departed, your friends Livia and Cale took one of my statues so that I might guide them. Unfortunately, once they entered the Hungerer's tunnels, ancient eldrich powers began to block my site. The last I saw before my statue was destroyed was your companions kneeling before a the statues of the raven gods - the Council of Ravens - likely the source of the power. If this is to be stopped, those statue and any others like them must be destroyed."</span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p>Another pause.</p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"I noted the scars you bore and the blessed curse upon them. It seems that the sorceress yet struggles against the possession and tried in her own way to aid you. The magic was blasphemous and so I replaced it with my own blessings, but it gives me some small hope. There is likely little left of the sorceress, but she wants you to come.</span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"That far gone, taken slowly into the black realm of the Council of Ravens, there is likely little you can do for her except kill her - believe me, that would be a blessing after the nightmare she is trapped in now."</span></p><p></p><p>Pause.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"I'm not sure what else there is that might be helpful and that I might tell - I have given you what meager blessings I may that you might be my last champions, put the Council to rest, and let my soul finally be free from its lonely vigilance..."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iron Sky, post: 5449299, member: 60965"] [COLOR=SandyBrown]"I imagine they do seem endless for when the dead gods were entombed, it was amidst massive ancient battlefields where they were finally brought down. When they stirred from their mausoleums, they had ample source for their dark armies."[/COLOR] The voice pauses. [COLOR=SandyBrown]"At the end the draw just outside the protection of my pool there is a path that leads to a plateau - a narrow, flat valley between the mountains where the ruins of an ancient city rest. Beyond are the caves of the Hungerers, an extinct race that first brought the scourge of necromancy into the world. In the depths of those caves there is an idol to their raven gods. "The raven gods slowly, over decades, possessed the mind of a powerful hermit sorceress that has long dwelled in these mountains, imbuing her with their power. She is the one that created all these monstrosities... and she is learning more by the day. The Stalkers that you faced are the most powerful dead that have yet left the mountains, but deep in the bowels of the Hungerer's warrens, there may be more, far more terrible things. "Before they departed, your friends Livia and Cale took one of my statues so that I might guide them. Unfortunately, once they entered the Hungerer's tunnels, ancient eldrich powers began to block my site. The last I saw before my statue was destroyed was your companions kneeling before a the statues of the raven gods - the Council of Ravens - likely the source of the power. If this is to be stopped, those statue and any others like them must be destroyed." [/COLOR] Another pause. [COLOR=SandyBrown] "I noted the scars you bore and the blessed curse upon them. It seems that the sorceress yet struggles against the possession and tried in her own way to aid you. The magic was blasphemous and so I replaced it with my own blessings, but it gives me some small hope. There is likely little left of the sorceress, but she wants you to come. "That far gone, taken slowly into the black realm of the Council of Ravens, there is likely little you can do for her except kill her - believe me, that would be a blessing after the nightmare she is trapped in now."[/COLOR] Pause. [COLOR=SandyBrown]"I'm not sure what else there is that might be helpful and that I might tell - I have given you what meager blessings I may that you might be my last champions, put the Council to rest, and let my soul finally be free from its lonely vigilance..."[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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