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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 195000" data-attributes="member: 903">Return of the WolfcallerSilence filled the packed burial chamber.  Only the last echoes of Joy’s words disturbed the air.  Rolf Wolfcaller lay on a stone slab adorned for a funeral.  Around Joy and the other Champions stood the Council of Nine, leaders of the Dwarvenrealm as well as many dwarves who claimed kinship to their fallen hero.  No one moved or even breathed.  The glowing diamond Joy had placed on the dead dwarf’s chest had disappeared now and everyone waited to see what would happen.  Everyone knew that once priests had held enough power to sometimes bring back the dead, but no such thing had been done in hundreds of years.A breath disturbed the air, then another.  Rolf opened his eyes.“I sat at the table of heroes,” he said in an awed voice.  “Around me sat all the great dwarves from all time, but She told me I did not belong there.  I had to go back.” He looked at Joy.  “I heard you calling me.”The tiny priestess smiled at him, and the entire hall burst into sound.  Everyone cheered and crowded around their risen hero, wanting to touch him and talk to him, to welcome him back to the world.The Champions stood aside and watched this unusual dwarven display of emotion.  The stout people of the Mountain had much to cheer about.  Though the dark elves had fought fiercely and to the last man at the end, the Kurnzarn and his army had finally cornered and destroyed the remnants of their army.  Titansbane had distinguished itself again at the head of the army, though the general now offered the dwarven war axe to Rolf, who looked at it in wonder.  His face changed as he held the handle.  Titansbane had a mind of its own.Knowing that Joy would call on the Lady to return Rolf to the living, the Council had called for a day of celebration the next day, but most dwarves did not choose to wait.  Casks opened early and the beer and ale flowed freely.The next morning, when the formal celebration began, the Drukar, Rigall Stronhome presented each of the Champions with a silver medallion engraved with the symbol of the Mountain.“As long as you live, each of you will be welcome in the Dwarvenrealm and among dwarves of the Mountain.”A great cheer arose for the heroes, and then they discovered that the party of the previous day had been merely a preliminary.</blockquote>

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