A Night in the Life of Castellan
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 25942
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Lining the east-wall of Castellan's chamber, there was a set of three
robots which seemed almost indistinguishable from owls unless one looked
at them closely. The watcher automations had been built in Hespan by an
art which had been zealously guarded, a gift from Marchavio the Arrogant.
Castellan had sensed that beside loosing a valuable minion, which had
sent him into a momentary fit of anger, he was also in immediate danger -
of a magical nature, oddly enough. And the danger was close to home, too.
A small ring was attatched to the pedestal on which the automatons rested. He put on the ring and pressed the blood-red gemstone inlaid within it. The automatons whirred into life and the images they saw came into focus in Castellan's mind. He was quite proud of his training--it took a lot of resolution to be able to process the three images and interact with people simultaneously. He closed his eyes and willed the automatons out of the window, and felt the wind on their banks as they soared off into the night-fog. Castellan knew the nature of the magic which threatened him, and his prized robots would be able to zero in on the specific threat quite easily.And then there was still the matter of the Allarian who had slain his informant on the west side, and then fled the city. The fact that the man's arrival coincided with a number of (albeit nonsensical) wood-elf prohpecies that fortold of a man of the east who would come to overthrow and destroy Castellan was a little troubling, to be sure. But the malevolent sorcerer had faith in his twisted creations, his proto-dark elfin masterpieces. He had sent two of them to follow the trail of the mageslayer, though one had fallen, the other was still more than capable of doing the job. If only the Dark Heretic had known the company Fred had encountered along the road, one enigmatic man peddling junk-stones and handbaskets, he might not have been so carefree about all of this.
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Ib (excerpts from 22808 (Knight Random))
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