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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3828560" data-attributes="member: 3448">The border had been fortified; a body of troops and two Hastur greeted us as we crossed.  The Hastur smiled to see us and told us that they had feared we would return the way the elven scouting party did.   Only their heads had returned at all, flung across the border, and their brains had been scooped out before the heads were returned.One of the Hastur questioned the sergeant about the tribe and was most pleased to learn that we had brought a group of the oppressed people of Caldefor back into the Darkness.  They scanned over the tribe and concluded that approximately 400 of the 500 trueborn we had brought back bore the taint of Shadow.  They began preparations to put all of the tainted in skin so that the taint could be cleansed.  None of them were so badly tainted as to need destruction.  Unfortunately, both of my concubines and my apprentice were among those who would need cleansing, but at least their taint had not yet spread to me.  Spending three weeks or so in skin would not be a very effective way of serving Lord Paranswarm.  We organized the tribe and got it settled on the outskirts of the town that surrounds the Hastur tower.I asked Sergeant Cilorean for permission to take one of the dragon eggs, as I thought that it could be used as part of an effective offer to bind the erinyes I had made contact with on our last expedition into the Shadow.  The Sergeant wisely told me to ask the Church, as we would turn all of the eggs over to the religious authorities.  The priests would certainly know how to raise the eggs to be loyal servants of Paranswarm, following in the wake of Vitrix-Henoxi, the great two-headed dragon saint.Shortly after we returned to Tarkenia, we were honored by a most auspicious visitor.  Tarkenia serves Glor’diadel, Lord of Light, and the Holy Church of Lord Paranswarm is all but unknown in its lands.  However, there is a bishop of the Holy Church, nominally without portfolio, who serves as the ambassador from the Holy See to the Glor’diadelian lands of Zest’qua.  The understanding between the Holy See and the Glor’diadelian temple precludes him from engaging in proselytization efforts, but he can minister to the religious needs of the refugees who have fled our homeland.  My understanding is that when Caldefor has been liberated, he will automatically ascend to the office of Archbishop of Caldefor.  We had hoped that he might send someone from his household, but he honored us by coming himself.We genuflected to him, and he permitted us to kiss his episcopal ring.  We described our efforts on behalf of the Lord of Darkness, and he said that he was most pleased.  He even offered to personally lead a mass for us and to confess our sins.  We presented the eggs to him, which also pleased him.  Sergeant Cilorean also brought up some matters of strategy, and the bishop promised to arrange for a strategist to discuss our thoughts so that our efforts might form part of a more comprehensive plan.</blockquote>

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