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Let There Be Light
Topic Started: Aug 25 2008, 02:15 AM (244 Views)
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KRYNN.
BLOOD SEA OF ISTAR.

The deed was done. A shrine had been erected in memory of the fallen darkness, a grave to serve as forever a memorial appropriate to house the eternal slumber of a dead goddess. Takhisis the Dragon Queen, the Dark Sorceress, the One God, was fallen, slain by a mortal elf king - made mortal by the deceit of her goodly counterpart Paladine sacrificing his own divinity to render her vulnerable. And Mina, Champion and Chosen of the One God, was left alone in her wake. She had promised vengeance upon Paladine, now a mortal elf himself, an exile from all peoples... never would he be able to hide the endless voids of experience in his eyes, no matter how convincing his mortal body might be. But there were other things that needed to be taken care of first, the prime among them being a proper burial due one so ancient, so powerful, and so revered as Queen Takhisis. The other was the acquisition of the power necessary to exact the desired vengeance.

As a priestess, Mina's powers had vanished when Takhisis had lost her divinity: the Dark Queen had provided her with her divine powers, without that necessary conduit Mina was little more than a warrior trained in the most basic of weapons. She had only the most vague of plans as to how to remedy this situation, but her wanderings had brought her here: the ruins of Istar and the Blood Sea. No vessel under normal circumstances was foolhardy enough to brave these waters, to do so was certain death; but Mina, so long the greatest of Takhisis's followers, so long under her goddess's protection, was not fully acquainted with the true understanding of her own mortality. Thus, the boat she had prepared was a small one, normally not even enough to be considered seaworthy on a normal sea on a tamer day, and for anyone else to put such a vessel on the Blood Sea would be madness.

Perhaps Mina was mad. Her goddess had been slain right in front of her eyes, her greatest enemies had been allowed to walk away, leaving her for the time being unable to avenge the fallen queen. Had she lost her mind? It wasn't out of line to consider it. Mina, however, wasn't considering her own sanity at the moment. She was concentrating on loading her supplies into the little boat and preparing to cross the Blood Sea.

She didn't get far, as anyone who had observed the ruins of what had once been the grand city of Istar for any time could tell you she wouldn't have. The swirling maelstrom of the Blood Sea wrenched any control the Champion of no God now could have ever hoped to have over the boat from her grasp, leaving her helpless and at the whim of fate. The last thing she saw before all went dark was her vessel campsizing beneath her and the murky, raging red of the Blood Sea as she plunged overboard. The weight of her armor surrendered her to the depths as she descended into darkness.


LYLAT SYSTEM.
VENOM ORBIT.
ADDER'S FANG.
ARMADA WING.

Mina awoke to glaring silver light, very different from the glaring sun of midday Krynn or the softer white-and-crimson glow of Solinari- and Lunitari-lit Krynn nights. Her body felt heavy, weighted with exhaustion, but inexplicably she was completely dry. Had her collapse into the Blood Sea, and the foolishness of the voyage in the first place (what an idiot she must have been, to brave such a thing without Takhisis's sanctuary!), been naught but a nightmare? That wouldn't explain why she appeared to be in a cavern of some sort, surrounded by glowing crystals and great inexplicable structures of metal.

At closer glance, Mina came to the conclusion that they were some manner of metal ship, pulled into a cavern (also made of metal, which further confounded her, as did how the ships had been stored there in the first place) when not traveling on the seas. Had her desperate prayers to an empty sky, pleading for some god known or unknown to give her the power to avenge her fallen patron, been answered by being swept away by night to some distant unknown land far across the sea, where steel and iron warships waited en masse for some unfathomable future voyage? The priestess's mind was ablaze with questions as she stumbled about between the vessels, examining each as she passed. Some were no larger than chariots, others greater than a pirate caravel. What civilization was able to produce such wonders?

And where were the makers of these great objects? So far, Mina had encountered nothing living. Had she been left in some ruin, to discover the hidden relic or long-lost scriptures of some forgotten deity? Or had the denizens of this place seen her first, and lurked unseen waiting for their moment to strike? Mina's had drifted to her mace, her only form of self-defense....

That sensation, what was it? A tingling, in the back of her mind... a tiny surge of divine power.

Mina's heart raced. Could it be, somehow inexplicably, her goddess had been revived?? The power she felt was, without a doubt, that of Takhisis herself. Mina struggled to refrain against the urge to cry out, begging for Takhisis to show herself, or send some sign to make herself known... if the hidden dwellers of this place knew of the Dark Queen, it would be better for Mina to keep her allegiance, and the fact that she had somehow regained her godhood, all secrets for now.
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