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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 545233" data-attributes="member: 1210">People stare at Angel as he walks down the street. One of his hands is wreathed in fire. His skin is an angry scarlet color and his hair looks almost like flame. A large falchion is strapped to his side. Walking with him is a young woman, apparently human, but with brown, strangely earthen-looking skin. A bow is slung across her back. This is Sybele. They're chatting amiably, obviously old friends. The two of them are new in town, having just disembarked themselves from a ship out of Tirchond, an island far to the south that has thrown off the yoke of the Forinthian Empire about five years ago.  Their path takes them to a small temple. The temple is devoted to a new goddess- Coila, her name is. She's Angel's deity, the goddess of time and relentlessness. Angel guards another temple to her, back on Tirchond, that is overseen by another old friend of these two. That friend, Sheva, a dark and brooding figure, is on Pesh as well... but she slipped away almost as soon as the party disembarked from the ship. Angel and Sheva have been driven here by their goddess- driven by visions and dreams.Five years ago, the three of them- along with a sizable group of companions- found themselves drawn into a grand and terrible adventure. They wound up taking sides in the conflict between the primal forces of Law and Chaos, and had some dealings with Na'Rat's forces and allies. Despite Coila's lawful nature, she set them on the side of Chaos. Now Coila has sent her clerics hope of a new weapon against Law- some sort of new time spell. It's unclear exactly what, but Sheva and Angel both know the location and name of the person who they're being sent to, and she's supposed to be here. She's apparently another priest of Coila, and her name is Reth Fire-Scarred.Angel and Sybele enter the temple and find themselves in a small worship chamber with only a single inhabitant. He raises his eyes as they enter and greets them warmly. "We're here to see Reth Fire-Scarred," Angel says politely, and the man's face falls."I'm afraid she's not here, and I haven't seen her in some time," he answers. "Who are you?"The two introduce themselves to the man, and he responds in kind, naming himself Marius. "Where is she?" asks Angel.Hesitating for just a moment, Marius glumly responds, "I'm not entirely sure. The last I knew she was heading to the picewoods to investigate an infestation of formians.""What are formians?" Sybele pipes up"They're big bugs from another plane," Marius tells her. "Great. Thanks, we'll look into it," Angel replies, and the two leave.</blockquote>

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