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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2350910" data-attributes="member: 143">Short update today, but I thought this revelation deserved its own (midweek) cliffhanger:* * * * * Chapter 416The reunion was rushed, both because of the urgency of their own quest, and because of the news that Morgan brought with him from Occipitus. “Adimarchus’s power grows within his prison,” the cleric of Helm told them, when they’d allowed him and his unusual companions into the great room of the tower. “We’ve recently learned that as well,” Dannel said.  “In fact, we had sought a way to contact you, to warn you.”“I have heard you speak of this man,” Beorna said quietly aside to Arun, who was standing next to her near the hearth.  With so many people in the chamber, it was getting a bit crowded.  “A servant of Helm, yet he allies himself with one of the Fallen?”“Morgan accepted the redemption of Occipitus as his task,” Arun replied.  “Perhaps he includes the deva as part of that mandate.  In any case, it is clear that the power of his god is with him.”Beorna frowned, but her senses did tell her that Arun was right, that Morgan had in fact be chosen by Helm as a divine agent of the god’s will.  By all rights—and the rules of her order—she should defer to him, but her eyes shifted to the scarred figure of Saureya, and her frown deepened. “We have thwarted the plans of the followers of Adimarchus here on Faerûn,” Cal was saying.  “The time has come for a final confrontation; we were in fact preparing for a shift to Carceri when you arrived.”“Even in his prison, Adimarchus is powerful,” the fallen deva said.  “Freed of his bonds, he will be beyond your power.  Even in his madness, he is still what he is.”“Who holds him?” Lok asked.  “How was such a being imprisoned?”The deva looked to Morgan, who nodded.  It was a significant gesture.  “He was betrayed by one whom he thought to be his ally,” the deva replied.  “His closest companion, who turned out to be the son of his enemy.  It is that enemy now that holds the key to the shackles that bind the dreaming god.”“Speak plainly, Fallen,” Beorna rumbled.  “Say the name of this foe.”“Graz’zt.  The one who holds Adimarchus, the master of Skullrot, is Graz’zt, Prince of Shadows, Lord of Azzagrat.”</blockquote>

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