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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Serpenteye" data-source="post: 81605" data-attributes="member: 1492">The Peace Conference, And Lord MelkorThe great marble and gold domes of the Hall of the People in Jalpa stand empty and silent. The occasional clerc or servant scurries quietly trough the halls bowing deeply when they encounter any remaining delegates, but the great passageways seem almost ghostly in their abandonment. The great banquet, enough luxury foods to feed a small country for a month, is untouched, except by a drunken Pit Fiend who bites the head of any servant attemting to clear the table. Suddenly the Pit Fiend clutshes its head in pain and collapses, writhing on the floor, as the God Emperor steps out of thin air before it. He takes one disgusted look around the room and dimension door to the Great Hall where he sees Vaergoroth standing in splendid solitude. "The conference is still officially open, " he says in answer to her question "but there seems to be little desire in the world for peace. There are still many issues to resolve, but perhaps the cease fire will be sufficient for now. For all practical purposes we have as much peace now as I expect we ever will." The two allies exchange a few phrases of courtesy and then the God Emperor teleports out again, back to the Grandwood.----In the infinite fraction of a moment that he travels trough the astral plane he is hit by the sending. A part of his spirit plunges trough the vision of the shadow plane while the other snarls in irritation at having been distracted. A wave of nausea washes trough him before he can restore his balance. Even so, the sight of Lord Melkor is awe inspiring. Before him, on a throne of shadow, sits the power to which he has for so long aspired, the power of the divine. All he needed to do was kneel before this Power and he would be given power to shape the very planes to his whim. All he needed to do was kneel. Needless to say he did not. "You say you will make me a God of Rulership and expect me to bow before you. Know that I already feel the spark of the divine in my veins, that the spark is growing and spreading like a fire in the Amedio. I am already a God, and not just of rulership. My followers worship me as the One God, the God of all portfolios. They worship me for the rain on their crops, the health of their children, the salvation of their souls in the afterlife. They worship me as the God of war, as the Great Judge, as the lord of pleasure and pain, the Master of Knowledge, the God of Magic and the God of rulership. And you expect me to bow to you? I do not deny your greatness but my goal is not to serve but to rule, and to rule all."Then he steps out of the vision into the headquarters of the armies of the Grandwood.</blockquote>

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