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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9215786" data-attributes="member: 1282">With no riders to command them, the giant scorpions are driven off. The siege of Dolg Olsolis is broken, whatever Bladeling stragglers survive limping away to lick their wounds and rejoin the main force of The Legion of Ruth on its march to Bantouk.But at what cost? Nearly all the Dolg's combat-capable defenders are killed or maimed from the battle. So much of the agora burned down from the Invoked Pyroclasm of Vezzuvu's servants.Ziwar's arm may never be the same, wrapped tightly in a sling with the hope that bones and tendons will be knitted with time. Keldan will bear burn scars on his back and shoulders until the day he dies, and for now sports a shaved visage, his shaggy hair and beard singed so terribly by the flames as to be unsalvageable. But he has agreed to stay behind in Dolg Olsolis and serve in its reconstruction. And as Chief Proselytizer in the planned Temple of Black Flames.Ibhea is deemed a war hero and fêted as such, so far as the starved community can provide, which is to say with much oration and encomium but very little in the way of booty or public feasts, for there still is not enough to go around. But more importantly, the populace embraces Ibhea's message of Delban's purifying black flames; a revival of the forgotten faith seems certain to sweep across the Empire of Hageri, with the Dolgs esteemed as the locus of rebirth. And, as Prophecy foretold, The Blessed, Ten in number have been assembled.Yet Ibhea is not without transformation himself. For one, he has not taken a drop of araq since the battle, when Delban's power seemed inaccessible to him for a time. Further, though healed now, the javelin wounds received outside the fortress walls became infected with some lingering Primordial magic. For several nights, Ibhea was wracked with horrible, fevered dreams of explosive mountaintops, rivers of lava flowing to destroy all in their path, and mad Bladelings relishing acts of war and conquest. That is behind him now, the wounds healed, though the scars are still traced with a supernatural flame. But, after hours of prayer and contemplation upon returning to Dolg Hana, Ibhea mastered this flame. In fact, he has mastered all flame now, in truth Delban's Black Flames given life.</blockquote>

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