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- Lekinsar Deballak paced the cold marble floor of The War
- Room, waiting for the dismal report. His cruel eyes scoured the
- distant northern horizon. Through the Ensorcelled windows he
- gazed, looking for some sign of what he knew was to come....
- Then the Apprentice burst in.
- Lekinsar spun to face him, ready to kill the messenger.
- "What is the news?" he demanded hotly. The lad cowered in fear,
- ready to sprint for the door; Lekinsar's response would be fast
- and furious.
- "It is as we feared. The Fellowship of Steel marches upon us.
- They have unearthed the Orb of True Sight. Our Talisman of
- Vanishing is useless. They can penetrate our cloak of
- Invisibility," he stammered.
- Lekinsar's face exploded in contorted fury. "How many!"
- "Scrying reports," but the boy could not finish. Fear held
- his tongue in an iron grip.
- "HOW MANY!"
- With a simple thought, Lekinsar wrenched control of the
- boy's vocal cords and forced the words from his mouth. "Three
- hundred warriors, a thousand Golems, five thousand Imps,
- Elementals.... They come now and will be upon us by morning!"
- The apprentice never had a chance to escape. There was no
- lightning bolt to dodge, no fireball to flee from. In the blink
- of an eye Lekinsar's rage was unleashed. The lad exploded into
- a cloud of red mist. A moment later, his blood soaked robe
- splattered to the floor.
- Lekinsar gestured and was gone.
- He reappeared deep beneath the Hosttower in The Scrying
- Chamber. Wizards monitoring crystal balls everywhere looked up
- from their futile work at their High Wizard.
- Lekinsar made his announcement. "All is not lost brothers.
- Our Cryptic Alliance shall be remembered for all eternity! Release
- the Demons and Hell Hounds! Bring in the Skeletons! Slow them
- down! The Fellowship of Steel will never have Tarmara. The
- Gathering of Chaos will show the world what Power is! Prepare
- for the Apocalypse! Brothers! We have the Mana and the temples
- to annihilate Tarmara, and we shall do it!"
-
- Thus was the fate of Tarmara. The Gathering of Chaos,
- preferring Death to defeat, laid waste to the world, stalemating
- The Great War. Now the WIZARD WARS continue....
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