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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erekose13" data-source="post: 2849768" data-attributes="member: 3387">[sblock=Tau, Kolbyr, Delynn]Tau nods to Delynn and then Kolbyr as she introduces them.  Letting the two settle in in the two chairs he has in his room, Tau begins, "Now I think that it might be best to put this story in context before jumping ahead.  I hope that you do not mind a long tale."It all began when I was a member of a travelling troupe of entertainers.  We tried to bring colour to the lives of the people under the heavy weight of the Mythar rule.  Traveling the countryside we gave performances in small villages along the way."At one particular village that we arrived in we found death and destruction.  From what we gathered a human attacked and killed the Mythar lords of the village in a particularly spectacular fire.  Fearing retribution from the Mythar we tried to help the village bring that one human to justice or at least question him.  None of us were enamoured with the Mythar rule, but we did not kill them."This individual, named Cantus, we discerned that he had managed to tap into a power that none of us understood, something dark, something fell.  We set off into the forest on his trail, but behind us was a gathering of Mythar like none we had seen before.  We lost the Mythar in the forest, but were unable to catch up with Cantus."Our trail eventually led to this village before running cold.  Our group remained here for a time trying to pick up the trail to find this Cantus.  With the support of the locals and a slow return to our entertainer lives we had lost touch with the trail and the hunt.  "All was for nought when just a fortnight ago our leader, an elderly gnome was attacked by Cantus in his room right here in this inn.  Since that time our group has gradually faded away. Only I am still hunting Cantus, only I stand ready to continue the search."To that end I tapped into a crystal that one of our contacts had given our late leader.  What I saw chilled me to the bone.  The Mythar have opened that which should never have been opened.  And Cantus somehow tapped into that energy."The one phrase that I heard that captures the horror that has been unleashed is in ancient elvish and it is one whose significance I do not understand."Eternal shall the Seal of Shadow be. Not steel nor hand betrays the Seal. Eternal shall the Seal of Shadow be."[/sblock]</blockquote>

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