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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 279102" data-attributes="member: 2012">Love and SorrowWhile Cronn was wondering where Jaeger was and while Jaeger was in the Halls of Twilight, two goddesses sat in the Temple of Love on Arborea.  Larea had come to find comfort with her sister, the Goddess of Love and Beauty.  She was sure that her children would not come back from Kulan.Ramara tried to comfort her, saying it would be all right.  But she too felt an odd feeling of dread.  Something was not right, she could feel it.  Only when Rel appeared before them with a look so long that it could have gone around the Great Ring twice, did she know she was right.“Rel, oh no, please no.”“I’m sorry my love, Euphoria is gone.”  Rel had only heard Damh’s words.  He could not take them to heart.  His daughter was gone.  He would not try to give Ramara false hope.“How?”  Ramara was crying and Larea tried to comfort her sister like Ramara had done for her.“Xuar took her.”  Rel sat down beside his grieving wife and took her into his arms.  “She was caught just outside the Seelie Court in the Beastlands.  The fairy god Puck tried to save her but he was no match for Xuar.”“Oh Ramara, I am so sorry.”  Larea had never seen her like this.  Even when her two godsons had been killed she had remained composed.  But this was different, Nessus and Thorn had died in battle, Euphoria wasn’t a warrior.The Love Goddess wept like a baby for her fallen child and the flowers around the Temple of Love withered and died as her realm felt her pain.The Rage of the North GodThe battle was not going well.  Fiends and celestials fought against one another, as the Lord of the North waded through them.  The Rage had not taken him yet as he waded through the onslaught of the vile hordes of Hiisi.  The Lord of Darkness was nowhere in sight.  Not that Cronn was surprised; Hiisi would never lead the first charge.  He was too much of a coward.Zealot was gone.  He said the words again, not believing them.Mussin, Emcey, and Teve had surrounded Inanna; Cronn had thought his wife would surely die.  But then Zealot had come out of nowhere and taken Emcey from behind.  The dark god screaming as his essence was destroyed.  Teve had spit foul epithets at Cronn’s young godson and charged into him.  The two grappled together rolling through battled between Hiisi’s dark horde and Jalivier’s soldiers of light.Inanna had regained herself and Mussin retreated from her.  He had known that going one on one with the Goddess of War would have got him killed.  He sent fiends after her, of course, but he might as well been sending sheep to the slaughter.  She cut them down one by one, trying to get to Zealot.  She came upon them just as Teve put his sword through Zealot’s chest.  Inanna’s scream echoed across the battlefield and Cronn knew Zealot was gone.  She avenged her godson before Teve could move sending the dark god to join Emcey in oblivion.And while Cronn grieved for his son he kept his mind on the battle at hand.  There would be enough time to grieve later, if there was a later.  The second wave of fiends came through the portal from the Abyss sooner than expected.  Hiisi was putting everything on the line.  Cronn was sure of one thing, a pantheon would fall this day.Another portal opened and Cronn thought that the day was lost.  Instead of fiends, the strangest army Cronn had ever seen poured from the portal.  Fairies!  Cronn was sure he was seeing things.  But then Titania and Oberon came through the portal.  Fiends all over the battlefield howled as Titania’s powerful magic ran through them.  The fiends scattered and a legion of dwarven petitioners took advantage of the distraction pushing the fiends back.  The Sylvan Queen and her Consort walked to Cronn.  Their faces showed sadness and Cronn wondered what could have upset them so.  Then Damh came between them and looked up at his barbarian friend with tears in his eyes.  He handed the Lord of the North his granddaughter’s favorite shawl.Cronn’s eyes grew wide as he felt the rage take hold of him.  His cry of anguish thundered over the battlefield and the fiends knew intense fear.  Inanna turned and saw a side of her husband that she had never seen before.  He seemed larger now and his eyes glowed with godfire.  He thundered into the heaviest fighting and slaughter dozens of fiend with blow after blow of his huge greataxe, North Rage.  The celestials parted and let the Great Lord of the North take the battle to the dark ones.Only when Inanna saw Damh kneeling on the battlefield clutching a shawl did she realise her husband’s pain.  Euphoria was gone.  Cronn had loved her like his own godchild, as he did the entire pantheon.  This was different then losing Zealot though, he had been a warrior and knew the risks but Euphoria had only been a child – a joyful, beautiful, wonderful child.  Inanna felt her heart sink as the realisation of what had happened.  This was not right.  Her temper started to take over and she rode into the fray to join her husband just as the third wave of fiends appeared from the Abyss.The NorthlandsSeraph led the three lesser gods through the Planes to the Prime Material.  What they found was carnage beyond belief.  Harqual was dying.  Deltum and Enduma had done more damage then any of them had ever seen.  Entire forests lay charred and broken, barbarian villages wiped out by disaster and floods.  The land uprooted, laid to waste.The four gods split up, as Truce and Hela went to help those they could, while Seraph and Hansa went to punish the dark duo for their crimes against the mortals.Seraph and Hansa didn’t have to look too hard.  The dark twins had moved further south to near the Greystone Mountains.  The two dark twins had conjured dozens of tornadoes and the mortals were scattering in fear.The rage took Seraph almost immediately and he smashed into Deltum, knocking him out of the sky.  Several of the tornadoes dissipated, as a result, and the two gods tumbled to the earth.  Enduma turned in time to meet Hansa and the God of Suffering and the God of Soldiers grappled in the sky while the mortals of Harqual looked on.On the ground, Seraph had got the upper hand on Deltum and skewered the dark god with his spear sending him to non-existence in a flash of light.  He looked up just in time to see Hansa and Enduma tumble down the mountains to the ground below.  Seraph rushed to help his kin and found him down on the ground with Enduma about to take his essence.  Seraph roared and Enduma looked up to see the Elf Barbarian God baring down on him.  This allowed Hansa to kick the dark god off him.Enduma saw that he was outmatched but still had enough power to shift back to the Outer Planes.  He took to the skies and tried to out run the two gods.  He didn’t even see it coming.  A giant spear flashed through the air passing through the dark god like he was nothing but a nuisance.  Neither Seraph nor Hansa had thrown it.  They looked up in the sky to see a cat god hovering above them with the sun behind him.“Rel?” Hansa wondered how the God of the Rakasta had learned about their plight.“No, little god, I am not your grandfather’s pathetic servant. The God of the Tabaxi has come to claim the lands of Cronn.”“Tu!”  Seraph spat on the ground as Hansa said the name.</blockquote>

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