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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3121214" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Your grace, I can only imagine your pain,” said Alistair.  “But I thought you should know that your grandsons have not been corrupted.  As much as the loss of your son hurts, your house and line will continue to rule the Duchy in the Light of Glor’diadel.”“You brought them here to protect them from their father’s corruption, not just to make my house subservient to your own.”  The Duke made it a statement, not a question.Alistair nodded.  “Yes, your grace.  As I said before, whether you will it or not, my house will never abandon yours.  We stand with you against all of these threats, and we will act to defend you from them.  We have taken steps to protect your future heirs, and we will act with you to deal with the threats in the catacombs.”The Duke gestured at Father Francois.  “Tell him what you think of the dog thing.”The priest nodded.  “Very well, your grace.  It is a molydeus, and an advanced one.  It is also a powerful wizard.  Several experienced priests tried to eject it from the plane.  The diocese has fewer experienced priests now.”The Duke continued, “It has been present for eighteen months.  It sometimes emerged to feed.  After it came, the ratmen came as well.  Now we are at an impasse.  We cannot tighten the wards further, but if we send men in, they do not return.  But it cannot leave.  Not my preferred solution, and many of the dead now walk.  They also cannot get out.”“You are positive of that, your grace?” asked Dame Brionna.The Duke smiled grimly.  “My wife’s allies seem extremely proficient in preventing things from leaving.”“Do you know what the molydeus’s goals are?” asked Alistair.  “When we scryed upon it, we saw a thin silver line of energy leading away from it.”Brightspan’s spiritual advisor shook his head, dejectedly.  “I can’t figure it out.  They’re using the catacombs in a bit of sacred geometry.  But I don’t know what the other points are.”“We believe that the second point is the ruined city of Shur, in the Sunken Lands, but we do not know where any other points would be.  We believe that it is somehow involved in the Abomination’s effort to advance itself.”“Indeed?  But then we can make some estimates about the third point.”“It would form a triangle?”“Without doubt, and an equilateral triangle at that.  I think the third point must be somewhere in the south…”Abigail quickly fetched a set of maps of the entire southern half of Drucien.  Francois bent over the maps, carefully measuring and operating a large compass to find the third point.  “Yes.  In the Skaven lands, although only barely.”Dame Brionna looked at it carefully.  “In the old South Kingdoms.  That’s consistent with the involvement of the Skaven in the Abomination of Shur’s plot.”</blockquote>

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