CHAPTER 2
"It is good to see you, Grol"
You kneel.
"We have never properly met."
"Only by letter. No matter, I have heard of your deeds; however small. Aye, kin, a large sum I had trust upon your arrival here."
"I have come to realize the importance...of my 'path', Lawmaster. I have been told that my position here is of great importance"
"Ah! It is great indeed...For it is you that will thrust the spear into the heart of the Hydra!"
"Hydra?"
"Tulkas...whatever you want to call him. The craven dog...You know how many times I have met him? Bah! How many times you, in innocence, trusted the demon?"
"You're telling me the leader of the horde has the power to change faces?"
"Not only that, but he has disguised himself previously...We still do not know what he has to gain from this...Pure spite and malice...?"
"How am I to stop him?"
"Because you, you are the true son of Adam! The importance of the kingdom of your great ancestor, it has been foretold, aye, in the book written by Thorax himself! A foundational myth, you are, standing in front of me!"
"I am no such thing."
"You are what you are. The Sage, aye, he has told me that when 'the wine barrels of Sodom crack with old age' that the 'Demon of a Thousand Heads and Whipping-Tails' shall 'Appear beyond the king'. We all know that does not concern Malung of lunacy."
"What of my brothers?"
"Some of them have already arrived. But I do not trust them. They are not guided as you are"