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sorry about cutting off the end of the last post but i had to get going to bed, and I have to type all of this as all I have is it just written down on paper.
Just for the record, please excuse my spelling...
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The hissing noise was like nails driveing into Raklitti's head... He fell onto his knees, Varathi cast something on it to stop the hissing, but it still glowed..
With unpredicted strength, he picked up Raklitti and carried him up the stairs, to half way up the tower and set him down on the landing..
Seven or eight guards came bursting through the door suddenly, one of them was tall enough to be mistaken for a small giant, Varathi simply, pointing at 6 of them, said "Go close the gate, ok?" The guards climbed down the stairs and went through the door, wich was a shortcut to the gate. He also told the other two guards to show Raklitti the way to the royal guest chambers.
Raklitti went through the door, across a short bridge, through a short tunnel, to the right through another door, up a fairly steep road on the outside of a keep built into the mountains, and finaly through an open steel gate (wich he figured was the second). A short while after being escorted through an underground city (full of humans, he noticed) and into a palace, half underground, half not underground, and was taken to a room with a highly comfortable looking bed in it...
After Raklitti sat down on the bed, the tall guard spoke, saying "You should probably stay here while we handle this.", and before Raklitti could ask what was going on, bolth of the guards were gone.
It's a good thing he diden't know what was going on.
The fortress had a series of magical crystals set in it, and the crystals indicated if any enemys knew where they were: they glowed green if none knew, yellow if a nutral force knew, orange if a non-dangerous enemy knew, and blood red if a dangerous enemy knew. This simple detection system had turned out to be far more relyable than any scout.
A few days afterwards Raklitti was back at relitively full health, and was browseing through the massive library in the city.
He found a preticularly intresting section in an anchent book titled
The Formation of the Forsaken Knights
...two and a half thousand years had passed in a sturdy peace after the burning legion had been beaten back for the final time, and the peace, wich had been so full that an orge could walk into the dwarven capitol of Iornforge. The orges, who had so long had been liveing in their canyon-city, for some unknown reason, fled the city. There had already been raining peace, and the orges were welcome in the alliance citys, wich made the peace even stronger.
And then, for an unknown reason, the peace vanished in just a few years. Another great war broke out, of wich little records remain. What is known is that the orcs were nearly wiped out, but not fully...
Several years passed, and peace had returned, humans and dwarves controled the entire southern half of the east lands, and ioslated arias in the northern region. There was a short war with the undead in wich little land changed hands.
In the eastern lands peace came once again, but -
At this point there were several pages missing from the musty book.
- ...after the wars the kingdoms of man split into many, many small kingdoms, and the forsaken knights remained in their mountain fortress, waiting to reunite the kingdoms of man.
A few hours later, Varathi came, stateing that Raklitti had to be ready to help fight at any moment, and then he left quickly.
Raklitti, seeking awnsers, asked a guard where he could find him. The guard pointed him to the upper palace. He followed the road underground for some time, torches lighting the way. Finaly, after a sharp right turn the road emerged into sunlight, with massive walls riseing on eather side, and forward a steep path leading to a large pair of massive open steel doors. The path continued upwards, off his left side he could see over the stone rail the massive wastes of the barrens, and the sea to the east beyond, a high wall on the right side the whole way up. He continued upwards and through another gate into the main city. Apparently the underground city was only for the guards and the guard's familys - and this upper city, was, well everything else. It was fairly obvious where the main road was, but it wound up and through the city, through gate numbers 5 and 6, and to an open, round courtyard. The cresent-moon shaped keep around 3 sides and open air with a great view of the city and the barrens with the sea beyond out the east.
Raklitti entered the palace, where one of the guards right by the enterance was that tall guard he had seen before. He continued straight through the main hall into the throne room (wich had an outragous ammount of gold plateing and silver trim on everything), and a guard pointed him to a door on his right. This led him to a less decorated hallway, with only one door at the end. He entered, and found that varathi was sitting in a chair waiting for him. Varathi simpley explaned that he had seen Raklitti comeing in his scrying pool, pointing to his right. There was a large stone basin set into the floor, with a cloudy green clear fluid in it, and Raklitti swore he could have seen flashes of images in it. Behind Varathi was a large stone table with a scale model of the fortress built on it.
He said, smileing, "Intresting you should notice that model. Oh, before you ask, it is used to plan defences."
Raklitti asked, "why do you bother? this city seems impenetrable! I haven't noticed a single weakness as of yet."
That was met with a quick responce."Yet, if we do not try to defend it, the enemy will simply walk right in. The south wall can be attacked, it would not be easy but it could be done with a large enough force, and as you know most of the kingdoms are scattered and fighting with themselves, this fortress is the only thing stopping an orc invasion from the north.
They have become bloodthirsty again and want revenge for nearly haveing been wiped out. We can't let there vile plans continue -
This fortress looks like an untouched mountain to the untrained eye, a magical barrier renders it invisible unless you already know it is here. So the orcs know this fortress exists, but they do not know where it is to find it - or they diden't. Now that is our problem."
Raklitti asked, wondering many things, "Who attacked me, and what was the foul fluid that they poured into my mouth?"
Varathi stopped smileing.
"Those were men-orcs, some time ago the races crossed, and that mix of races has lived for ages in the most foul places of Azeroth. The poison they poured down your throat is the Drought of Death, it should have killed you in seconds, why, and how you lived I have not even a hint of an idea.
"And before you can ask, the orcs have discovered a foul magic that exposes our city to everything. It is no longer hidden."
Raklitti began to state, "and THAT, is -"
"-very bad." varathi finished for him. "I get the feeling that the Shadow is attemting to force itself back into this world.
The shadow
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