CHAPTER 2
"Then..."
"Then it was that the earth split asunder above and below, and they say great things judged him...and he was eaten for his crimes...The land of his domain, it was once Dormus of Hills, aye, it was, for now it is the Red. A jungle of guts, a mire of blood...lakes of serpents and fields of spines...Entry is forbidden, it simply is. Below, they say, rests the Gods..."
"What of the blade? Is it still lost?"
"His lackeys tried to usurp the blade, but it all ended in tragedy. Aye, I should have told you. It was the Age of Darkness. It lasted until the unification of the peoples under King Malung's halls...A feast he held there, upon Modoc."
"The east never talks about this. They have taught me, before, the workings of mathematics, but never the history of the clans."
He spits on the ground. "No...perhaps you have never heard of it, because of the foolishness of your people. But now...we are all fools."
You are on the road again.
From now on, it seems, you will be accompanied by a man named Panacea. A man painted in black except for two sore yellow eyes. A doctor, he calls himself. "I can heal any wound" he says, with a striding pose and the eyes of a man that can capture the world and eat it whole at the flicker of an eye.
"The road now..." says the doctor "It will be most difficult..."
"Why? They have not reached us yet" you reply
"That is what the jester said to the thief...Watch it, Giant, I know more than you."
You look at him but you know by his eyes he is completely mad. "We shall eat these dogs alive, you hear?" you say "Our cities will be ours again"