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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JollyDoc" data-source="post: 4053672" data-attributes="member: 9546">This one's for you G!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> EPILOGUEShami-Amourae sighed in relief as she took in the surroundings of her safe house.  It was good to be home.  She paused in front of one of the numerous mirrors that adorned the walls, preening her hair in its reflection.  Suddenly, her eyes narrowed as she stared at the odd scar in the center of her forehead.  Then, before her disbelieving gaze, the scar split in two, revealing a third eye staring back at her.  A moment later, Shami-Amourae’s mind was shattered forever.Entropy took in her new form admiringly.  ‘Not half bad,’ she thought, though truly, she no longer cared much about external appearances.  Indeed, she had vastly more important things on her mind.  Her plan, which had begun so long ago, was about to come to fruition.  For a moment, she allowed her memories to carry her back to the Bastion of Unborn Souls…the Bastion of Broken Souls, as it had been known at that time, when she had learned of Aaemeul’s plan to rid himself of his other, perhaps better half.  This had led her in later days to research the Prince of Demons further and, with the near-limitless resources provided to her as the Chosen of the White Banshee, she had uncovered a second plan…Hethradiah’s plan.  Time had passed as she had observed passively the events in the outside world.  She had witnessed the so-called Age of Worms with anticipation, hoping it signaled the beginning of Hethradiah’s Savage Tide, but it was not to be, and so she waited patiently.  Finally, when she saw that the time had truly come, she had set about putting the final stages of her plan into motion.  It had been nothing for her to learn of Shami-Amourae’s imprisonment in the Wells of Darkness, and less effort still for her to secure an audience with Ahazu the Seizer.  At first the demon lord had believed she was offering a prisoner exchange, her soul for that of the Lady of Delights.  Not so, she had told him.  Instead, she freely offered herself to the Seizer, asking only two things in return:  first, that she be imprisoned with Shami-Amourae, and second, that if it ever came to pass that she should be freed, then Ahazu would reward her with the one gift she knew he had in his power to grant, but had never given…the divine spark…the power of a god!  Ahazu had readily agreed, thinking her a fool, and that she would never have any hope of being freed, especially since no one would ever know of her imprisonment.  There was his crucial error.  Once she had sacrificed her life and her soul had joined Shami-Amourae’s in Shattered Night, it had been only the slightest of tasks for her to completely dominate the succubus queen, and merge her own consciousness with Shami-Amourae’s subconscious.  Now she was free, and it was time to collect on her debt from Ahazu.  Then, she would laugh as she told the paltry demon lord what she had learned…what he had spent his entire miserable existence seeking…the secret of Shattered Night’s true nature.  It was a Portal…and not just any portal, oh no!  It was the one Portal she had been searching for ever since she had learned of the existence of the Far Realms.  Shattered Night was a direct conduit to the plane of madness, and with the power granted to her by Ahazu, Entropy would be able to open it.  Oh, it might well take years, decades even to accomplish the task, but she was nothing if not patient.  She chuckled to herself as she thought of the mortals that had inadvertently freed her scurrying about trying to stop Demogorgon’s dastardly scheme.  Perhaps they would live to see just how insignificant the Savage Tide truly was, when the new Goddess of Madness became ascendant…</blockquote>

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