A Damned Mess

What a damned mess…This is what happens Salak’nor when you go off to the corners of the empire to “preach”.

Three champions have betrayed the cause as it were…Shoa…well I can hardly be sad about that fool, Zig the drunkard, well if two had to go then I couldn’t be happier.

But Mneri…the loss of the priestess, the champion of Hir’eek

He still wasn’t sure what exactly had happened, but apparently she had betrayed the empire…consorted with ELVES!!! Disgusting traitorous elves…

It made no sense, she was loyal and…and a friend, perhaps the only one Salak had ever had within the empire, for masters such as the Emperor himself could hardly be called friends. He was a good judge of trolls…he trusted little but he was ready to tutor Mneri in the arts of the witchdoctor at risk of revealing his other…secrets…

He laughed humourlessly Oh remember what you said Salak, she would do well, she would serve proudly ha! A damned and accursed traitor…she’s betrayed the empire and me, may whatever soul she has be exterminated for the rest of eternity.

And…Rlaris…what had happened to the old troll? Salak thought he heard something about a traitor, but…could it be? Rlaris has served for so long, why would be possibly defect, betray or do anything disloyal.

Damn it! I am sick of this, Shadra please help me, my Queen grant me some insight into the mess that the empire seems to be becoming, is the webs of logic through out the world unravelling? Nothing is making sense anymore!

Lifting his staff, he started to chant in a dark hissing language which he always used for the common shadow incantations, dark spirits gathered around Salak

“Come” he told them “We have work to do”