The Black Knight
One Thousand Club
Race: Demi-Human
Date/Time: 9 A.M.; Spring; Morning of the Next Day
Location: Land of the Titans
Tagging: Axel The Englishman Ramjammer RI.a _Line 213 fluticasone Euaion
With the fall of The Centurion and the retreat of the Children, the world became quiet and still. A momentary reprieve after a battle, or perhaps the calm before the storm? Circling overhead and shattering the brief quiet, was a red crow. It passed over the heads of the God Slayers, cawing.
Caw! Caw!
Its caws then became words:
Slayers of the Gods! Caw!
Slayers of the Gods!
The earth shook and quaked. It vibrated and hummed loudly as though a giant were rolling over beneath its crust. The flat, cracked earth rose, billowing and rising into an enormous mound. The peak of the round hill touched the clouds and its circumference was greater than multiple gladiator arenas. Dirt and rock rolled, cracked, and crumbled as a seam split the mound at its center. The hill parted, revealing a green and glass-like surface. The surface reflected the overcast above and descending toward the seven God Slayers was a deep-green circle, and at its center was endless darkness. The circle scattered in ray-like patterns and the darkness at its center swelled. The God Slayers would then realize that they were gazing upon an eye!
The ground then rose about them. Two ridges divided the slayers and between them, the soil began to slide and dump into a fissure that had opened. From the fissure exuded a hot and humid breath strong with the smell of wood and dirt. Teeth of sandstone parted as the ground was swallowed and among the sliding sediment was Leonhardt and the prince. Leon paled. Baring his teeth through the ache of his muscles, he hopelessly spread his arms and dug his fingers into the sliding terrain. He was headed straight into the darkness.
I can’t escape! Leon thought. He gazed ahead at the slanted terrain and saw the prince unconscious and subjected to the same fate. Leon’s pupils swelled in horror. “NO!”
The red crow dove, and as it neared the ground, the bird grew in size. Its talons reached out to snatch up first Leon and then the prince. Flapping its wings and scattering dust, the bird rose out of the fissure and flew over the heads of the others, lowering its talons like hooks for them to grab on.
Come with me into the sky! Ydis does not know the sky!
Once the other heroes took hold, the red crow ascended away from the earth and the further the earth shrank beneath them, the more the God Slayers were able to see the face of the true god. It was half of Ydis’s face. His eye slowly rolled in the red crow’s direction and the god’s voice rang out as though a mountain had spoken:
You who water the earth in my children’s blood, you will not escape! I will swallow you whole! Let the sky be your eternal haven for as soon as you touch the soil, the ground will be your grave!
Leon was folded over one of crow's claws and protectively underneath his arm was the prince. The lion gazed down in awe at the god as its eye and mouth closed. Its face sank back into the ground and was erased from the wasteland. And here, they all had thought The Centurion was Ydis. Leon could not find the words to even speak! How were they supposed to defeat that?
The red crow cackled: “The Witch’s Shallows be on the water. Fool god. He cannot touch us there.”
GM Award
Players can only choose one option:
►Magic +1
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►A Witch's Gift
Players can only choose one option:
►Magic +1
►Abilities +1
►A Witch's Gift