------------- The Nine – The Seeing

It had been some time after the encounter with the Brunnen Dearth, some time after the Night Raptors had come and gone, and The Nine were cementing their power on the dank passages of Old Calladon. There were rumors that the Elven Shrine on the first level had started to revert to its original form, but he hadn’t made it there yet. Maellasia and her sister had fallen, killed somewhere off in the UnderDark by the Brunnen Dearth. Lolth’s chief Yochlol, Aranea, was also supposedly amongst those destroyed. And those same rumors said that a Mord Witch had led them to a place not far from Maerymydra where their souls would be forever lost to the White Banshee. He doubted the last, but it would serve them right.

A shadow slipped past him, one of his body guards, a race now lost and leaderless, and he was the perfect one to take those reigns. But first he needed to know something, something beyond even his or his kinds’ ability to see, and there was only one in all the world that could pierce the veil of chaos and uncertainty and tell him what he needed to know.

The trip to Old Calladon was long and bothersome. So many Drow, so many Hobgoblins, so much noise and activity. He had been accustomed to the quiet and solitude of his black tower for so many ages, anything else caused him pain. Few ever visited him. None left alive.

“Aerrdinae. Seer of All Things. I greet you in the name of the Mord.”

“Prince Vanihk, it’s a pleasure to see you in the flesh, at last.”

He thought about that. Of course she had seen him through her fabled foresight long before he’d even started this journey.

“Then I’d assume you already know what it is I wish.”

“Of course. You wish to know if there is any point in your plan to bring the Mord together under one rule,… yours.”

The Mord WarMage nodded.

“Indeed, but that is not all I seek. Though you may see all that is under heaven, perhaps you are blind to some of the deeper places of the Abyss.”

“Perhaps, and perhaps not. Will you join me? Perhaps refreshments would be in order.”

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