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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eluvan" data-source="post: 2638389" data-attributes="member: 24812">"Yes, of course..." Elandra says, looking huntedly aroud once more before nodding in reassurance. "We should really hurry, but I suppose I can tell you a little as we go. Emenukaris is the self-proclaimed Lord of this place, as I said. He turned up here about twenty years back now. Nobody really knows where he came from or who he is, but he came with a big army - mostly 'Loth mercenaries - and laid siege to the last Lord of the place. Few days later he'd pushed him out and taken up residence. The people round here respect one thing: power. He sure had a lot of that, and so it didn't take him long to impose his own rule on the place. He even tried to take the Ministry, but even he couldn't pull that off. Oh, right, the Ministry... uhhh... that's the Celestial Ministry for the Illumination and Edification of Hopeless. That's where I'm taking you now. It's been around forever, trying to bring a little hope into Hopeless I guess. Might seem pointless to you, but we might well be all that's keeping this place from sliding into Hades." As she is speaking the group rounds a corner, and at the end of the new street can be seen a building which can only be the aforementioned Ministry. It stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the place. The street leading up to it would barely pass for an alley in some towns - it's narrow and cobbled, with filth and grime seeping into the centre from deep gutters on either side in which sludge runs thick and rodents scamper and chitter. The ramshackle buildings on either side lean precariously inwards, almost meeting in the centre, plunging the byway into perpetual gloom even deeper than that which covers the rest of the town and giving it the air of a tunnel. At the end of the street, though, stands a large building of white stone quite unlike the plaster and dark wood that makes up the surrounding abodes or the huge chunks of black stone from which Emenukaris' castle is built. The architectural style is sweeping and airy, all arcs and buttresses, and four guards in the very same armour as the two who accompany Elandra stand unmoving and vigilant outside the building.</blockquote>

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