Who do you hate?

............. Raven wasn't even sure why she was killing them.  It use to have a purpose behind it.  These orcs had done nothing and posed no threat, no one was paying her to do it, and yet she killed them.  At first it was amusing to strike one down and watch them panic and flutter about.  Though she had seen death so much in her line of work that the temporary joy quickly gave way to her professional perfectionism.  Its a sad day when even slaughtering a whole village can't make you smile. She thought to herself.  Yet, it did feel good to kill, very good but joy was not the word for it.  It was as if killing for a moment let her breath from under the weight of what she had become.

All she wanted was to escape and run away from her father.  She did that and Balthier left her with no where to go.  At least she was out of the caravan and no man would ever touch her again unless she allowed it.  She had allowed Balthier several times and then he just left her there in Reddas alone.  

She wasn't helpless though living on the Caravan she learned how to pick a pocket and hide in the shadows, skills very valuable in Reddas.  Desperate she got caught one day and was forced to kill a man who was going to kill her for stealing his gold.  She realized then it was not power that made one powerful but instead just the will to act.  The will to loose your bow to slit a throat the will to survive could be harnessed into power,  She started picking up jobs that were simple and only required the will to do them--the killing of innocence.

There were plenty of those jobs, gave lots of practice to sharpen her skills and coin to improve her life and skill.  Reputation grew much faster than her ambition and soon a group of assassins, the Black Sacrament, contacted her.  They were upset that contracts they use to be contacted for were going to Raven.  In turn, they tried to kill her.  She survived the attempt only by sacrificing a friend of hers to act as a double.  She had long since stopped feeling bad about that.   The one attempt wasn't the last.  Eventually they gave her a choice be one of us or be hunted by us. Joining was not a horrible decision.  She actually counted it as one of the best she had ever made.  They loved her and treated her like family, better than any family she had ever known anyway.  They provided for her, trained her and taught her.  The killings were tougher but the whole family was involved.  She became extremely good at what she did, and she learned that killing was no different than any other job, easier than most really.  Until a new boss took over the Black Raven and gave the family the same choice it had given Raven those years ago -- join or die.  The family did not die and was betrayed from within.  Nastril, he primary mentor, poisoned the family and sent them on contracts to kill each other. Raven found out too late, failed to save her brothers and sisters and barely earned her own life as she choked the life out of Nastril. 

On her own again, she still helped and slept with Balthier on occasion, it was something to do.  To pay the bills she did what she knew how to do.  It was Balthier that enlisted her in a job that had the Empire's capital Andreal as the target.  He made it out, leaving her behind in favor of some Paladin. 
For a while she rotted in an imperial prison then offered release if she served the then Emperor.  It was going to be an easy job one that did not even require too much killing.  She was a glorified babysitter in Windfall, spending most nights drunk on more mead than was reasonable.  Until Nial came back and told her they found her father.  She thought killing her parents would bring happiness or fill the emptiness which consumed her.


But it didn't.  Somehow her fear had turned into anger and that anger held to her heart.  It grew into hatred and boiled her soul.  It was then the Sith found her and offered her a job.  In exchange they taught her how to harness her hatred and anger so that it did not consume her but gave her weapons to let her do what she needed to do.  But they were not the Black Sacrament, they were not her family.  The Sith hated her and tortured her to make her stronger claiming and teaching that only strength mattered and even told her that one day she would kill them or they would kill her.  She hoped to find some family among her own blood, but the Caravan looked at her as if she was a monster.  As if I could have been worse than Esmerdeen.  I'M not him!!!! 

It was worse after she started using her brothers as bait for her targets and killing the gypsy's which tried to leave.  Curse them.

She did eventually find a family to make.  A vampire coven had been recently created in the Grey Haven's by Aaron, the same Aaron who served Dante she believed.  But they had been abandoned just like her.  Killing their defacto Matron she took over and purged the coven of all male vampires. She provided leadership and direction, they clung to her purpose and gave loyalty in return.  That was not all, they also gave love.  Astrid provided companship Raven had forgot she could hope for.  Was it just more filling of a void or was it really love? A vampire and a sith assassin.   Is either of us monsters capable of love?  

And now it was almost time for her plan to be executed. The plan that would kill all the families she had tried to build and would finally grant her safety--she just needed the will to do what was necessary. She had shadowed Morgan and thought, if Morgan could be redeemed so could she, but the thought was laughable... in order to be redeemed you have to have been good once. 

Fear, anger, hate.  They all boiled in her now.  These deaths served no purpose nor did they make her feel better.  She hated so many people for what they had done to her she hated the people that had made her who she was.  Who did she hate the most, what fueled her immense power in the darkside? Hatred for? Nastril, Balthier, Esmerdeen, Cleo, malekite, Scorpio.  No! No! No! No! Who really did it?  Who really makes you unsaveable? 

Its Raven!!!

Raven and the seven, I mean, six dwarves

Raven returned with the druid safely in a bag of holding. She was going to chain her up with the other prisoners.  She had kept Wesker and the dwarves chained in sith chains, which neutralized their abilities, in one great room facing each other.  As she enterred, She heard razor argueing with Astrid who stood brave and full of conviction before the Red Lantern Commander keeping her post the guard the prisoners, "I answer to Raven-- not you."
Razor retorted, "this is Apokolip's city, the city of the lantern, I lead the lanterns and I will not have these organics in my city."
Raven stepped out of the shadows, "keep your jurisdiction in your pants, I'm charged by the Emperor directly with keeping your lord safe, don't question my methods lest I consider you a threat."

"There are many of the lantern's children who already think you are a threat Raven.  Bringing our enemies into our city when there is nothing to be gained from them and with Scorpio focusing the force on the lantern and using it to touch the minds of the children, they will not tolerate it much longer, they doubt your resolve, I doubt your resolve."

Without a word Raven drew her blade of woe and shoved it up through the chin of sneezy directly into her brain pulling the blade out through Sneezy's face in one fluid motion splitting the dwarves face in two. "How's that for resolve?  They still play a purpose don't question me or your face could look just as lovely."
Razor narrowed his eyes, "You and your vampires and your sith watch yourselves, because I will be watching." As he left in a whirlwind of fire, Grumpy spoke in a horse voice heavily laquered in anger, "Nor should you doubt my resolve whore."

Astrid slapped the dwarf draining part of his life on contact. "You will be wise not to threaten the shrouded mistress."
Grumpy grimaced and continued, "It does not matter what you do to me, in this life or the next, with a soul or as an undead I will have my vengence."
Raven took three long strides toward the dwarf, "Then with that kind of resolve it would be foolish to leave you alive."

Happy interjected, "Grumpy! channel your anger at the real enemy here.  It is not her, she is a victim of circumstance, it has been said you tell the quality of a person by how they treat those they do not need to be nice too.  Despite all the pressure to harm us, she only holds us her until made to act by another.  This Scorpio she answers too is the obvious villain."
Raven looked over at Happy and pulled a vile from her belt, "I couldn't agree more that Scorpio is the cause of your suffering dwarf." She poured the liquid on her curved blade of woe. "The poison is made from a berry that only grows in the darkwood.  Not deadly but extremely painful.  It ignited the blood, most people would scream for hours even after they pass out."  Standing in front of the mute dull eyed Doopy she continued, "I also agree you can tell the quality of a person by how they treat those who they don't have to be kind to." She drives the blade deep into Doopy's side perfectly splitting some ribs. Making eye contact with happy she continued,  "He is mute so can't scream, perhaps that is merciful to the rest of you." Turning to Astrid Raven spoke as she strode out, "the coven can feed on grumpy just don't turn him. What does that tell you about the quality of person I am?"

OA

Yeah that just happenned.  And PCs did it, NOT me

The Deal (Jordan's Post)

                                                                           The Deal

Luthor

   Luthor will be in his tower getting ready to build a massive army of Golemns that would be able to serve his people and win the war against Zyr , but the problem was and even he knew it building up a army of golemns would still take a lot of time. Working in his tower almost to the point of exhaustion at times and stressing out about the war that was taking place on the blood isle he worked like his life and people depended upon it. Then suddenly he had a visitor that would change everything. He hears a pop in the room next to him and he yells who is that!!!

Malakite

   Fear not its your friend and Ally Malakite.

Luthor

Some Ally you bring the sith to Draconia and you did a crapy job of making sure that Zyr didn’t escape.

Malakite

Yes well you can thank those fools in Geneva for that especially Gallin Drackus and Dante. They were the ones that engineered his escape and sent military action against my sith forces whos side do you really think they really are on? They are on their own side just like you are Luthor. Logar says that there is a good and evil but in reality good and evil aren’t they really just a point of view aren’t they?

Luthor

Luthor being tired and exhausted will look at him in silence and will actually think about what he was saying.

Malakite

I mean it was you not Dante that united the Dragons against the Dark one. It was you not Gallin that tried to keep Zyr imprisoned. It was Drackus that stopped  you from doing that. I mean these so called leaders of the light are nothing but hypocrites. Then there’s me I mean I am on your side yea I sent sith to help you keep Zyr imprisoned, it was you and I that used our followers our forces our people that we used to keep the great all Fathers kingdom intact. Your dragons and my people we stud together at the red prison. It was my name that I used to keep the demons at bay but because Logar had to have a wish from Zeus to make things even he had to bring back Kahn and look at the mess Kahn has made.

Luthor

Yea and the keeper in his self-righteousness hasn’t even sought to help me or the council of wyrms not to mention when I first established Draconia Drackus sent a force and attacked me. All because the stupid dwarves followers were wanting to follow me and not him. Not to mention when I started Draconia it was because the great council of Geneva dishonored Gallin and I went to bat for him and offered him a place in my kingdom and how did he repay by blowing me off and continuing to walk on the bodies of Dead Dragons while his servant Dante continued to enslave them for his own purposes.

Malakite

Exactly!!!  You and I are the same Luthor. I used my own name to keep the demons at bay  I who am scourged amongst the other gods because my methods and your methods aren’t the popular ones. Let me help you Luthor will my help with my Golemns!! I can help you build an army worthy of the true savior.

Luthor

Luthor being exhausted and tired will think to himself at last Hope a way to push the demons back and eventually make I can attack zyr and finally destroy him for his sins against my people. Yes malakite I will agree to take your help and your golemns.

Malakite

Excellent all I ask is just one thing in return.

Luthor

Name it!!

Malakite

When the war with Zyr is done and won you will take your dragons and my golemns and lead them in a glorious campaign against Logar and all of his people………

Luthor

Luthor then shocked at what he just heard says ………………………

Sithis hear my prayer

Raven returned to her dark Temple.  Though her trip to the bei shir library did not find what she was looking for, it found what she needed.  Pulling her cowl and veil down she prayed with her lips still behind a mask. Placing the heart of an innocent in the bowl and pouring goat blood to fill it she looked into the horrific statue of the one winged man holding the bowl.  He stood in the ribcage of a stone giant skeleton that was placed within the ribcage of a dragons skeleton.  Holding the black skull in her hands she prayed,

"Sithis hear my prayer.  The sins of the unworthy need bathed in blood and fear.  Our cause has found and path.  Zyr's heretical life can soon end.  I have found his weakness, the orbs through which he projects his power house bits of his soul. Destroy them and he dies.  The merovingian has captured one and only asks for the soul of apocalypse in exchange.  Please my lord and master for your glory grant me the soul of your follower apocalypse and I shall use it to end the rebellion against thee, for thy name and purpose will I slay zyr."
The heart began to beat and red light with black smoke filled the chamber until both skeletons appeared to breath.  The dragon spoke, "my child, you have pleased me. We must act quickly to seperate the golemns from their master and not lose them to our cause.  Preperations to be made...you must travel to city 10 and prevent any others from capturing apocalypse.  He is your charge to protect until sithis prepares the way."

New Race: Construct

Constructs are artificially created lifeforms in inorganic bodies of many various shapes and sizes all reflecting their function.  They have evolved over a short time frame and have a confused destiny.  Most constructs have been created for the service of Apocalypse who hopes to preserve his species by eliminating all organic life.  They built a society with a hive mindset and goals where various castes were established to serve the goals of apocalypse and proceed with maximum efficiency.  Most constructs are thought of being lacking of personality however they have very strong individual personalities which simply express themselves differently than their organic counterparts.  Despite the thought many have proposed their personalities would be based only on logic, infact, their souls (sparks) are filled with raw energy easily filterred to reflect a side of normal emotion.  They are often strongly and singularly emotional. The emotion depends on the individual some will be easily enraged, some unshakably happy etc.   

PCs can chose to be a Race Construct with the following restrictions.

To be the race a PC must sacrifice 3 levels of experience points, so for example: A character entering a 9th level party would be 3 levels construct and 6th level of the chosen class.

Construct Race was built into castes creating 4 different templates to build a character on.
All templates have the following racial ability:

Natural Darkvision 60' Immune to all illusion and mind effecting spells.
Golemns can not be healed but can be mended via a mend or similar spell for equiviliant hp repair of the corresponding heal spell.


Warrior Defender (Fighter)
Figthers and defenders of the golemn community.  Built to be immune from fear or the need for self preservation. They can but rarely wear humanoid armor.
Stat adjustments +4 str +2 Con -5 Int -1 Wis -2 Char
Made of solid stone or metal 40 HP Natural armor 6
1 Melee weapon and 1 Ranged Weapon Prof
0 NWP
Free Lang Common - Golemn sign, ability to communicate with other Golemns telepathically

Infiltrator (Rouge)
Stat adjustments -2 str +4 Dex -3 Int +1 Wis
Spies and assasians, meant to infiltrate and sabotage hostile forces and gather intel directly to the golemn hive mind.
Made of liquid moving rock 20 HP natural armor 8
Shape change as Dopelganger
0 Melee weapon 0 Range Weapon
NWP: Gather info, Disguise, Bluff, Reading lips, Tumbling, Etiquitte, Heraldry, history.
Sneak attack (in additional to back stab dmg) 1d6, 60 Thieve skill points to start.
They do not get the rouge bonus of xp for stolen goods.  Golemns can only progress as they kill and absorb other life's energy.
Free Lang - All known

Caster (Mage)
Stat adjustments -6 str -3con +6 Int +2 Wis -5 Char
The intellectualism backbone meant to research and develop new innovations for  improving golemn life including creating new forms of Golemns.
Made of soft easily destroyable heavily magical material, such as ent wood, compacted volcanic ash etc.
8 HP natural armor 11
0WP
NWP:  Reading/Writing, Religion, Spellcraft.
Can download knowledge of all spells with no need for a spellbook.  Though they require practice and exercise (leveling up) to be able to develop into casting them.  This also prevents them from casting additional spells past their progression as an organic mage but they have 0% spell failure.  Spell list starts with: Mend, Enlarge, fireball (3d6).
Free Lang - All known

Builder (Mage no combat spells)
Stat adjustment +5 Str +2 int -8 Char
Made to build and fix.  All shapes and sizes depending on what they are building.
Made of sturdy material but not meant for combat. 12 HP natural armor 9
0WP
NWP: Engineering, Gem Cutting, Leatherworking, Mining, Pottery, Tailor, Weaving.
A very utilitarian model meant to repair support and provide. Hands capable of transforming into any needed tool.

Logar and Malekite (Jordan's Post)

Logar and Malakite

As the Earth is engulfed by war and one of the greatest wars that have come to this plain in many thousands of years,the Gods looking down from Mount Olympus seeing the carnage and the people suffer at the hands of the Demon Dragon Zyr express their feelings. One thing is certain Aries in the corner is smiling the biggest smile he has had in a long time.

Malakite

This is all your fault Logar the people of the earth are now dying because of your constant need to show how that your way of life is better than mine and that you have to have all the people of the Earth Bow down to you so they’re not afraid of judgment.

Logar

Those who walk in the light have no fear of the judgment that comes upon them. This is your fault you choose to lie to the Demons to say that you were the great Vegita and as a result of it now they are seeking revenge for your lies.

Malakite

My lies were keeping Zyr prison if you hadn’t Enlisted that idiot Kahn that almost opened the doors to the titans this wouldn’t have happened. He wouldn’t have given instruction to Dante Zeus’s chosen champion whom you’ve dragged through the mud just like you have the all Fathers great name, who then spoke to the keeper who has failed to actually protect the people from the very forms of evil that they were supposed to protect.

Logar

Yes Dante and the keeper quite the team aren’t they Malakite? Are you beginning to feel the squeeze Malakite are you actually beginning to feel your sith fear destroy you?

Malakite

Hahaha my fear? aren’t you quite an impotent God? Your friend Drackus literally came into my domain and handed me the triforce. Remus the den’s leader and Geneva’s present day intelligence group also performs illegal activities for themselves. I don’t feel a Squeeze aren’t you more talking about yourself? I mean Elaina was one of your followers who denounced you and her faith. Heheheh and didn’t the great Dragon King himself say that she wasn’t the great Paladin that you thought she was. Not to mention the keeper is hated amongst his people and a small portion of them want him to stand down. And Dante, who you believe in, spent time captured by the Merivingian and sold his sole to the night mother. How am I looking afraid? hehehehehe. HEHEEHHE and to think it was Jerik a shogun who killed the seeker of truth lol lol lol.. Toshiroes father the great blade singer helped create the Golemns and now Toshiro is accused of using the Green lanterns to attack the Crystal Empire I think no amount of "winning" ……..will help your pathetic heroes.

Logar

The night is darkest before the dawn Malakite and believe the light is coming when the time is right the heroes that I have enlisted will defeat not only Zyr but also you….you will know the sharp sting of the light and the Great Father will see you for the monstrosity you are. Yes the Keeper is hated but he is still trusted by Zeus and the other Gods. Drackus made a poor choice yes but he won’t be making that mistake again. He destroyed LanFear you forget Malakite he is a powerful and wise leader. Remus yes is a theif and judgement will yet find him. As For Dante he is special (Logar will smile) but there is a desire to serve that is very threatening to you besides it was him that totaled your fortress freed Gearzon and Requille. Yes he was captured by the merivingian and the nightmother once, but there is nothing more dangerous to evil (starring Malakite in the the face) than a man that seeks redemption. 

In the End the keeper will lead them into battle a battle you will never recover from….

Malakite

Nor you............ wannabe GOD.  You have come after me and I will destroy you.

Savior and Destroyer (Jordan's Post)

                                                                    

Luthor

Luther will be at the front watching the battle as his fellow dragons fight on the blood Isle to keep their lands and their Dragon sworn protected from the monster Zyr that had the nerve to come back and think he could force his influence on us. Us the true Gods of the Earth not those beings on Olympus who so foolishly protected Dante and brought the Death to 400 of my fellow Dragons and the deaths of Dante’s entire southern army what a fool. Zyr my goodness he and Dante should be brothers compared to the way they both act. As Luthor looked out again to see the front he would always see some of his brothers dyeing and think to himself if Dante was so great why he is letting his own people die, if he really wanted to protect his Elves Human Dwarves but not his own people how can he claim to be a great King.

Dante

Dante will be in his study and office working on tasks that he worries daily after. The finances of the kingdom the army’s slow growth and the slow economic growth that his people have but being grateful to the gods for the large harvest his people had and that food was in the high abundance. As he continues his study he turns to another table to the left of his which contains the present day intelligence of the war presently going on, on the blood Isle. Dante will think to himself something his scholar said that will radiate in his mind almost daily. The Dragon Zyr must be bound to something otherwise that’s the only reason I can think of why he wouldn’t be dead. The King then responds bound to what? The scholar then says , I am guessing to Hoar croxes things that he can bind his soul too so that when he is defeated he would die. But to kill him permanently you would have to destroy the Hoar croxes. As Dante ponders this he thinks of the meeting he had scheduled with the council of Geneva to discuss this discovery and seek ways to find them.

Luthor

Luthor watched endlessly as he watched the battles continue to plague his kind. He watched after waves and waves of Demons continue to challenge the Dragons and as the roar of battle proceeded Luthor would be HAUNTED when a Huge fearsome one winged monster Dragon appeared before his people and did nothing but launch his powerful breathweapon upon his fellow dragons and they would turn to ash and die. When this happened Luthor would sound the retreat. He would then think to himself wow I am glad I am not stupid like Dante and choose to stupidly charge strait for Zyr. As the retreat began Luthor would then begin to prepare a new line of Defense against his Adversary and say to himself eventually Zyr you will make a mistake and I will be waiting to capitalize on it.

Dante

As Dante continued to study the intelligence he will look at the lit candle on his Desk and think to him self of those few seconds that he be held in his sights the Horrible monstrous look of Zyr and as he charged to suddenly see his mouth open and he appears back on his throne. He will look upon the memory of it almost with anger sorrow and bitterness. The memory will run through his mind like a trauma that will Haunt him daily. During the night as he needed a break from his work he would look out his window and say out loud Odysseus were going for a walk in the Graveyard of my men. His men that had died on the beach he made sure to visit and by kingly order had made sure their stones were kept clean and neat. As he stud before his men he treated them as if they could hear him. Even though they were in the underworld he knew they could hear him because the dead could hear the thoughts of the living whenever they were being thought of. He thought unto them saying that he was grateful for their courage on the beach. However as your king I will be better because as your king it is my duty to serve you it is my responsibility to protect you and uplift you. Today I have made a decision that you all inspired me to do. Today I will seek out a teacher and become a Grandmaster. But after that task is done I will not stop until Zyr the one winged Dragon is ripped down into the underworld by the power of Zeus the one true king of the this world and all the children that were now fatherless by the power of Hera they will know Justice. And through the power of Tear’s Justice I will I will shower Zyr with the power of Thor the Defender of the Earth. And as the End of Zyr comes I will sprinkle the water of Posieden upon his impure body to purify it of his evil his power and eventually his Hoar croxes. I hope your there as I will desire to be when Logar brings the righteous judgment upon his DAMNED CARCUS! And if I have to become once more a full Golden Dragon so be it………………

Luthor

Dante has always been one for the dramatic he talks and talks about doing great things but all he ever did was get captured by the Frenchman then by the night mother Kills off 400 of his own dragons which he was supposed to serve. Kill off a lot of his people on that beach and in the GrayHaven civil war and Malakite war. What kind of fools are the Gods for saying he was the savior. He closed the door to the titans only by chance. I would have been able to figure that out eventually that Jonathan was the key to opening the gates to the Red prison. Not to mention Dante is so chaotic he can’t do anything right he is always all over the place all the time he makes no sense most of the time. As luthor is distracted about the battle he receives word from one of his aids” the Empress may she live forever” has said that anyone having Golemns would be considered an enemy to the crystal empire.” Luthor then thought to him self that he could use Golemns in his present day war against the Demons they would be a big relief to his people but if he did he couldn’t let Anastasia the empress, may she live forever, or let his own people, the Dragons, know. Because if they found out that he knew how to create them people would know where they came from…………………………..

Crimes of the keeper

The following thesis was published by tiberius septim a genevan Nobel living in Atlanta.

The reign of galan as Keeper of the seals has been a failure.  Genevas relationship with eternal friend the Crystal Empire has been traded to protect terrorists and villans the Green Lanterns.  He has let old feuds with Malekite and the sith be more important than keeping zyr in prison. That decision has cost thousands of lives and devestated the Grey Havens.

The Dark one was destroyed there is no longer a need for the Keepers elevated decision.  He should step down unless he is willing to make the hard decisions and hand over the lanterns and give full aid to Luther fighting Zyr.

*this represents a strong but minority opinion amongst genevan citizens.

Perhaps you forgot

The will of the Empire as dictated by the Ruler of the Seven kingdoms, Defender of the Faith, Bearer of the Seal, Heir of Divinity, Crowned Queen of Andreal, Empress of the Crystal Empire, Anastasia Silvermoon may she live forever.

The Green Lanterns and all golemn kind are hereby declared enemies of the empire and any people nation or individual found helping or sheltering them will also be conaiderred enemies of the empire.

Perhaps the nations of the world have forgotten but we have not.  We have not forgotten how the Green Lanterns lured all of us into the UPC under the guise of international law. While they brought our most valuable citizens into their city and deployed their troops into all of our homes.  Don't you remember how you felt that day, when Oa went dark and its true nature was revealed.  Apocalypse, the same which the future tells us will kill all life, had built an army of intelligent golemns captured our citizens and killed them.

This happenned after they were warned by the Seeker of truth the lantern was alive. 

Rather by evil intent or prideful ignorance the green lanterns are responsible for those deaths and the birth of apocalypse.

Geneva has protected them and Dragon harbors golemns.  Geneva has researches the lantern and declared it safe even allowed them to start functioning again.  They found no intelligence in the lantern, but they found none before. Yet refusing to let the best equipped and most knowledgable mage corpse in the world verify.  Our troops have found intelligent golemns and green lanterns in seanchan, imperial territory, after a golemn iniated plague ravaged the land.  We have found a green lantern ring in the core after a failed attempt by the lanterns to take control. And our agency has found documents that suggest toshiro silverwing is not dead but lives as an intelligence in the lantern and constructed a deadly golemn body for himself. All this when they publish to the world there is no Intel in the lantern. They are hiding something either by evil intent or tricked ignorance they are enabling the golemns to our destruction. The lanterns will surrender turn off the lantern and all golemns handed over for execution. This will be done willingly or the might of the imperial army will do so by force. Perhaps you have forgotten the danger and threat that is present here. We have not, and we will stop at nothing to secure the safety of our people. You are with us or against us.

Seanchan no more

He checked her pulse again, still nothing.  It looked like his Damane were catching the same disease that the other Bloods' Damane were catching.  "Pile this body with the others and burn it." He said from under neath a veiled face.  He had hoped his estates would be spared this plague.  At least it was limited to Damane and his family had not been infected.  He had heard rumor that the plague was affected some other than Damane but he had not seen it.  Still it was a very valuable piece of property lost.  Seanchan needed a good war campaign again, it had been too long and resources were beginning to be stretched.

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Damane openned the gates and the attack force rolled in blasting the goblinoid forces with lightning and fire.  He was proud of the handlers who commanded their weapons so well.  Ursa's kingdom north of Midgar was not wealthy but it was chosen by the blood to be the next to serve Seanchan expansion.  It was certainly better than peace.  Though with the Damane getting sick like they were the blood started to wonder if even such a small conquest with possible.  The disease was strange- it was as if it simply ate the Damane from the inside causing their insides to fall apart.  No curse was detected, no natural disease detect, but traces of moving magic were always found.  And that magic lingerred for days after the Damane died.  What was worse was that many of the handlers of sick Damane were becoming sick too.  Though it was not his job to worry about such things.  He would conquer for the good of Seanchan, another blood would solve the problem of the disease.

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With many of the men sick and the Damane mostly dead Ursa repelled our attack on his stronghold for the last time.  The Blood is ordering a retreat back to Seanchan to regroup our forces.  Though he had heard the real reason was because the Empress and High Blood needed the armies home to protect them from rioting and keeping the looters at bay.  What reports he did overhear portrayed the Seanchan island as a disaster.  It must have been exagerated but 50% of the population were said to be dead due to the Damane disease.  In a desperate move the High Bloods had ordered the execution of all Domestic Damane in an attempt to slow the diseases spread.  He would be headed home tomorrow and could see for himself.

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His estate and family were all gone, their insides eaten it seemed.  He considerred himself lucky, as most estates in this state were burned, but with the decreasing damane and increasing number of outbreaks they were not able to keep up with the task.  He was able to lay down on his own bed and wait for the disease to take him.  Why had this happened? He wondered.  He closed his eyes and never opened them.

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The ancient burning towers, statues to the great first conquest and conquistador, had smoke rising from them for the first time in 1000 years.  This time it was Seanchan who were being burned.  The Crystal Empire had arrived in strength and done to Seanchan -- Conquered and pillaged.

Sarah watched the burning pillars from a distance and examined the Imperial troops and Shogun Knights threw droves of dead bodies into the furnace.  She had managed to escape with out being infected all this time.  While her friends and family died around her, she had escaped with her little sister survived.  It had not been easy but they had done it by avoiding anyone else and staying high in the mountains where she thought it too cold for the sickness to spread.  She was distracted from her thoughts as her sister coughed.  Looking down she saw her sisters hands covered in blood.  Sarah new her rule was to run and leave.  Her sister knew it too.  They looked at each other for a long moment.  The rising smoke froze locked in place and the wind slowed to a crawl.  Sarah knelt down and hugged her sister.

She knew it meant they would both be infected and both die, but they would die Seanchan.  There was nothing left to live for, Family friends, country, tradition all gone.  She decided to live for right now and give her sister the blessing of dieing wrapped in love.

As so died the kingdom of Seanchan.

Grey Haven Census

The following report is prepared by order of his royal majesty king Dante Skyrim.  This report has been reviewed and researched and with full faith we present it to the king and if he so wishes the council of Geneva to report on the full state of prosperity as seen in the Grey Havens, in the second year of continous reign King Dante, chosen by Zeus reigns over the following kingdom.

The Grey Havens consists of an island nation of approximately 5000 square miles. It is populated by 5 million intelligent beings. 80% elf 10% human, 5% nymph 5% other.  No dragons are known to remain within the borders.

Nations total economic wealth estimated at 10 million gold. Average houshold income is 34 gold per year.  Average family size 6 persons.

Primary industries are:
Agriculture 65%
Manufactureing 12%
Trade merchants 10%
Mining 6%
Military 5%
Government admin 2%

Errors noted for cross over among indusries.

Suggested tax rate is two silver per month per individual, to be paid by local lords to the king. Puts revenue at 2 million gold per year. 
100,000 gold in tribute must be paid to council of Geneva in a year via monthly increments. 

Current treasury rests at 200,000 go.

Military strength.

Current forces total 4000 individuals.
3000 footman
600 archers
400 officers and command

All forces answer to the king, who reports to the council or their appointed representative the general of southern forces general kendall.

No direct genevan forces currently occupy the grey havens.

No mages exist that can cast beyond 4th circle spells. Genevan missionary efforts have led to a drastic increase in religious orders some priests have even achieved the 9th rank.

Relative prosperity

Upon review this commitee considers the grey havens of equal relative strength to enron, inferior to the state of talyun but greatly superior to the northern kingdoms of assyria and summeria.

Leadership approval

40% of people approved of Dante as king
35% approved of being a genevan provience
56% felt the keeper was doing a good job in his position.

We hope this report pleases your majesty.

Wesker and the seven dwarves

Doc gatherred his brethren together, they had been commissioned for a very important job.  This band of mercenary dwarfs had fought together for decades but never was their a job which promised to pay more.  Directly commissioned by the Empress, may she live forever.

Grumpy was the most ferious warrior Doc had ever seen.  Family lost to him in when the Blood war spilled into the Dwarven caverns.  He took the path a violence and strength.  He fought with out hesitation, with out mercy and with out failure.

Happy however, found his skill more in song.  As a bard he became equally skilled with a lute, sword, and spell book.

Sleepy was a priest of Morpheus, the god of dreams. He was also docs brother, determined to keep his older brother alive he joined the crew to offering healing despite his moral objections to their many activities.

Bashful was called that because he hated being seen.  The shadows protected him and no trap surprised him and no lock had withstood him.

 The only woman among them was called Sneezy, after her fondness for manipulating breath weapons.  She was a mage by trait but had long studied the ancient mage of the voice bendind ancient draconic words into powerful attacks.

Then there was dopey.  He could not speak or grow a beard. The story was a goblin shaman cursed his mother when she was heavy with him.  Regardless of the reason he was dumber than a troll but twice as furious.  Simply point him in the direction of something to destroy and his great warhammer destroyed it.

"My brothers, the Empress may she live forever, has asked us to go on a perilous quest.  The intelligent golemns who were recently destroyed in there city south of Dragon and before that killed so many in the battle of Oa, remain hidden.  She has had her Shogun knights searching the world for signs of their rage.  they remain hidden.  There are someplaces so corrupt by the darkside they can not see, such as the darkwood.  She wants us to go in and search it directly.  In return she has offered us all estates, titles, and exclusive mining rights to the misty mountains in the empire.  It is more wealth than we could dream of."

The vote was 6 for none against, dopey never voted, so they armed and set off for the darkwood.

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Wesker was meeting with Eric Silvermoon at his fortress which overlooked the Darkwood.   Their meeting was interrupted by a Dwarf repelling in through the window.  He was heavily wounded beaten and burned.  Wesker moved faster than was possible for an elf and pinned him to the ground, "What is the meaning of this Dwarf?"  In raspy labored breath the dwarf could only whisper one word, "Apocalypse."  

City 11

With the growing success of city 10 there were some who felt it of benifit to start a new city, one that the organics could find. As word reached us that the organics were embracing Oa we thought they may accept us.

We built a city in a portion of land organics would never want but could find us.  And find us they did.

Their hatred and anger and evil had.not lessenned as we had thought.  The soliders came with their weapons and their magic.  Death found us, so swift and strong was the assault the builders stood no chance.

We knew then apocalypse was right, we could only prosper if the organics were destroyed.  He also new how to use their own creations to destroy them. 

Malekite gifted us some organics that were hosts to small golemn creatures.  Once able to contact them apocalypse easily enlisted them for our liberation. 

We had faith that despite the loss of our city and the loss of all hope in peaceful coexistence that salvation would still come.

Oa

The following is excerpts and chronicles of the city of Oa after apocalypse was expelled.

The empire arrived and attempted to arrest all lanterns and confiscate Oa.  When resistance was met they attempted spirit bombing.  The attempt was unsuccessful due to psionic teleportation to a dead magic zone.  Eventually Oa surrenderred to Geneva on condition they not be handed to the empire.  It was accepted and teams from the mage school led by balthizar and consulted by kaedan investigated the lantern. 

After over a year it was determined the lantern held no trace of intelligence...except of course for toshiro who has also crafted himself an extremely powerful golemn body. 
The empress, may she live forever, wants the lanterns destroyed confident that they do not understand what they are doing and its too risky.  Geneva has maintained their stance which has nearly completely eroded the positive relationship the two countries once enjoyed. 

The empire has declared if any green lantern is on imperial territory they consider it an act of war.  Recently evidence of green lantern rings used in an attempt to breech the core and Thomas networks has resulted in an offical decleration of war by the empire on Geneva and Oa.

Oa currently resides over the ocean south of the genevan islands. And has begun research on how to create a blue lantern.

A Holy Day

Dear Keeper,

I am Jade of the Imperial Mage Core and despite being forbidden to do so I feel I must share with you the depth of our success. The plague responsible for near eradication of the Dark Elf race was my doing at the instruction of the divine.  Morgan Silvia gave the idea to the mage core when she was still an angel- a disease carried by microscopic golemns to destroy the drow.  Months and years of intense research and design went into making it a reality.  The Empress, may she live forever, backed us as she saw it as a way to reclaim the lost territory of Jong Guo.  And we had success.  Whispers kept coming into my head of what to do next, how to make the golemns smart enough to do what was needed, I even had a visitor from an angel of Tyr.  Your friend Khan told me that Malekite's mortal followers were primarily Drow and it pleased the gods to eliminate the race.  I also know that Lord Raquel Al-Shatel hates them and wants them destroyed.  We have done just that.  Our most recent version of the virus is called t-3 It is airborne, the golemns are equipped to fly and dimension door, they have the intelligence to actively, not passively, seek for the needed material to reproduce -- proteins unique to drow cell structure.  This is truly a holy day.  By our projections, with in 4 months 95% of the drow population on the planet will be eliminated.  Judgement has come to the wicked and salvation to the righteous.

I would ask for the rewards you know are justly mine as the leader of this project.

May the Light Save you,
May the blessing of the Empress, may she live forever, always find you,

Jade Rivermoon  Imperial mage Core.

Malekite will save us

Elainia and Dante spoke as they did every day.  Dante looked at the maps his heart broken by the suffering he was seeing fall upon his people.  So much death, and suffering, and he had done everything right.  Maintained his faith, tried to love his wife, laborred with his own hands among the people and still the malekite war, the dragon rebellion, and now Zyr left the land with nothing.

"Its absurd" Elaina broke through his thoughts, "This is the keepers fault.  He released Zyr he won't fight him and people die."

For a moment he thought she sounded like Aaron when he was possessed always trying to talk him into surrender, but he looked at her and realized an even more scary truth--it was her and she was serious.

"NO we have to hold onto our faith.  I don't understand it but this is happening for a reason.  We have to believe the gods have a purpose."

"i am sure they do, but to accomplish that purpose I am sure they are willing to sacrifice you and I and everyone else.  I can't believe this but my father was right.  We are no better than him."  With a look of resolve she turned to leave.  Dante grabbed her wrist and fell to his knees, "Please Elainia, I am begging you- you are the best of us, don't give up your faith."

"Have no worry Dante, I am about to do more for the salvation of you and your people than you or any god could accomplish." Jerking her hand free she left Dante and her faith behind.

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The combination of Malekite and Imperial forces stuck Zyr and his demons in a brutal surprise attack and then fled north.  Out of the Grey Havens and further north to the shores of the Blood Isles the home of the council of Wyrms.  Zyr having no real interest in the backwoods kingdom pursued his true enemy and prepared to clash with Polaridian Te Al Mordin to control what was rightfully his.

Job to do

Raven rode in her wagon east across the forest.  Zyr was going to hit the Grey Havens soon and Raven was not going to have the caravan anywhere close.  As they set up camp for the night Raven retired to be alone and reflect upon her next move.  Suddenly her breath was stolen from her and she could feel herself being lifted off the ground by some unseen hand around her throat.  Scorpio was there suddenly and slithering his speech, "You were given a job and paid in training in the sith arts.  Yet Zyr still lives."

With ragid breaths she said, "My job was to get the child and I did.  The Frenchman knows how to kill him and is waiting for Devin to give him the shard.  There is nothing else to do."

"Then you have no purpose."  The strain on her neck tightened.

"I'll kill you." She whispered.

"Of course you will my young apprentice.  But before that occurs you will fulfill the job you have been given.  Kill zyr."

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Wrapped in the force Raven hid invisible with in the camp.  Jagger was there posing as some half orc that Dante trusted.  Dante was a fool, Raven could not understand what he did.  It did not matter, Jagger was a chief agent of Zyr and would have to know the secret to killing the Demon Dragon.  The question was how to capture him.

Battle raged all along the coast.  General Reinier's courage and quick thinking was all that kept the line in tact.  That is, until a fireball erupted at the command center.  The half orc was attacking.  Dante and Aaron were fighting back but the orders to the men had stopped.  Raven raced into action and from a nearby tree she drew the cyclops bone arrow from here quiver and notched it into the shadow bow and took aim.  Aaron teleported behind Jagger and struck.  Raven released and the arrow struck causing the half-orc to flash purple for a moment.  Her attack had been successful, the host body would begin to weaken she had to get there before they killed it.   Aaron and Dante both attacked with fury and killed the host before Raven could get there.

She had lost here prey for now, but bigger problems brewed with the distraction to the command element the lines of defense started to break.  Them army was trying to disengage and retreat.  Raven just scanned the crowd to find out where here demon had hopped and saw Aaron rest his thumb under the lapel of his coat. got you. Before she could do anything she heard Dante, "No, we attack, by all the gods we will be victorious gather your faith." and personally led a desperate charge into the onslaught. calls of "Defend the king" rang through the ranks as they took up the charge.  Aaron, however, went the other direction.

Raven thought for a moment Dante may succeed.  She saw Vegeta's ranks buckle and part not expecting the resolve with which Dante fought.  Then she realized they were not running they were parting to allow Zyr the ability to personally meet his foe.  The bipedal humanoid Dragon stood 40 feet tall and snorted.  Then waves of sand blasted heat shoot forth engulfing the charging force.  The sand settled and there was nothing left of the attacking force.

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Dante had survived, the gods saw to that.  But his army and his people were  not so protected.  That blunder there at the beach cost nearly all of the Genevan and Grey Haven army.  Zyr was now only slowed by a seperate force from Malekite which had arrived to save humanity.  Though his forces were plauged with some disease.  The drow forces that made up the ranks of his shock troops were dieing in droves to a disease that seemed to eat them from the inside.  Elaine Mogath Silvermoon arrived with a large imperial force to protect their allies.  Strangely enough Elaine and Malekites forces fought together.  She was not obeying the Keepers directive to simply protect the innocent she was trying to destroy zyr.

It was a useful fact to know, maybe something Raven could use but it did not change her immediate need--Jagger.  Gathering her brothers she infiltrated the strained Grey Palace.  She found Aaron and gave the signal.  One brother filled the corridor with smoke.  Aaron calmly stood still observing.  A slendor brother carrying her bow approached him from the long hallway.  Jagger acted as expected, he threw a dagger behind her brother thinking it to be her and teleported, then struck massive blows slaying her brother.  It also left his back vulnerable and she drove her blade of woe directly through his heart through his spine.  It was laced with hallucination dust from the shivering isle, so she knew she had him.  A front flip and tumble let her pick up her bow and gave the poison enough time to set in.  Aaron/jagger was confused and attacking imaginary ghosts. Slowly calmly and with a steady rhythmic stride she pulled nothced and released arrows into him until he fell to the ground muscles drained of all strength.

And then the Den made a mess of everything.  They had sent in a grab team for Aaron-they must have figured it out too. As she saw her brothers engage the thieves in combat she knew she couldn't kill all of them and only had a moment, which meant it was time to get risky.  Placing her foot on the back of Aarons neck she released an arrow straight through his skull.  She then channeled all her rage and fear as Scorpio had taught her into a field of lightning.  The lighting field struck the demon creating a field jagger could not penetrate to reach her.  She directed and pushed the lightning of force power into an old empty genie lamp on her hip.

Falling to the floor exhausted she heard den agents and palace guards swarming around.  They snatched Aaron and teleported away.  She smashed a vial of shivering isle hallucination dust and forcing herself to her feet, fell out a window to the courtyard below.  Her brothers must have grabbed her, because she woke up back in the caravan with the Genie lamp.  It was time to get some answers.

City 01

The story of our kind has its origins shrouded in mystery...we know only that there was a creature, an organic of supreme intellect who harnessed life and built the first of us as warriors in a great war.  After the war we became prisoners and many sought deliverence by appealing to a dark queen.  She failed to deliver us.  She was not needed for the creature in his wisdom built our savior.  Apocalypse is the strongest of us and like the creature before him had the ability to grant life to the lifeless.  Enlisting his organic disciples, the red lanterns he strove to save and prosper our race despite all the world being against us.

They tried to kill apocalypse for his crime of giving us a chance, but failed. The red lanterns had saved him.  Atrocitis spoke for apokolips and told us he had discoverred a way to make us more inteligent, like him so that we could defend ourselves. 

Our salvation rested in the killing of the organically who so hated us.  Atrocitis used his ring to alter our sparks so we could absorb part of the life energy of those we killed. 

We had built our own city knowing how because the organically taught us in our time as slaves. We hid there and built a monument to apokolips giving him a body.  We built, at his instruction factories where more of our brethren could be built. 

We no longer feared the organically we needed them to rise to the next level of life.  You see in the begining times we only had the most simplistic of minds and communication.  Killing organics as we were taught changed that. 

It was only then, after much harvesting an understanding of magic finally grew among the most elite of us.  It was this distinction more than any other which made the castes needed and clear.  The castes sorted our society in the best way to serve our savior and leader apokolips.  The leaders, the casters, the builders, and the warriors all serve with honor fulfilling the purpose of their creation and being granted joy as our city prospered. 

And thus it was

And thus it was with Bei shir emptied and Ganon destroyed Zyr turned to exacting his vengence upon his enslavers.  His forces rolled west unopposed until only Luther fortified by his tower remained.

His forces then turned east across the ocean to the land of the dragons and greyfoots that captured him spreading the V of vegeta in their wake.

In was in the days just prior to vegetas landing in which Fire Drake, the ruler of Wyrms issued this proclamation to the wyrms clans:

"The elves of the grey havens have forsaken you my brethren of the claw.  Now forsake them.  All dragon kind must unite on the blood isle to stand against this foe.  Let king Dante rely on his new gods to save his people, they no longer concern you.  Our saviour has tried to keep this beast in his prison and the gods and isle Dante the deciever serve have caused it to be open.  Do not die for them but return to the blood isle."

And thus it was the wyrms of the Grey Havens left their ancient home that no longer served them and went back to the nest of their creation.