Dark Tidings

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The cold, clear air of the Kazradin mountains remained abnormally silent as the miners dug. The echoing of pickaxes repeatedly striking stone was all that could be heard within the tidy and hardworking capital of the Dwedmar. In the center of the city, the new mine was under heavy construction as the dwarves tunneled their way deep into the rock.

 

“C’mon lads! Keep it up! We’ll ‘ave t’is done in nae toime!” cried the Thanes, working alongside their kin.

 

And all at once a small dwarf at the front of the digging crew shouted out. “Onar! Come look!” Concerned that a dwarf had been injured, Onar rushed to the front of the crew only to find that the dwarf was not injured as much as shocked. Before them, nestled in the rocks was a small fragment of a crystal.

 

 

The crystal itself seemed massive in size as the miners began their excavation of the gem. “Dunna touch it yet lads! Jus’ dig it out!” shouted Zahrer as the crew dug a large chamber around the crystal. But as the dwarves worked their awe of the object only grew as they unburied a gem of immense size that bathed the cave in an intense blue light emanating from deep within the core of the crystal.

 

 

 

“Stuhp diggin lads!” shouted Onar as the dwarves finished their cave. As they moved into the crowd quickly forming behind Onar, he leaned forward, extending his hand towards the crystal and as he touched it the crystals light flashed far brighter than before and sent out a shockwave with the force to knock the dwarves surrounding it to the ground. Picking themselves up from the ground, they patted the dust from their clothes and picked up their tools again only to come face to face with a hoard of the undead that had appeared in the cave before them. With a great cry, the dwarves charged the ranks of corpses.

 

 

After the fight, the dwarves bandaged their wounds at the mouth of the cave, deciding what to do next when a bright red flash was seen at the end of the cave. A hooded figure now stood before the crystal, gazing outward at the miners. Raising his hands, he summoned a clear wall of ice before him, sealing himself within the cave, but allowing the dwarves outside to view into the cave.

“Mortals! You have uncovered that which you were not meant to find! The master deems you unworthy for his cause and orders your removal from this place! Grow in fear mortals for the knowledge will be your undoing!” Turning to face around, he placed his hands on the surface of the crystal. As he made contact, arcs of raw power burst from its surface and into the figure. The crystal itself began to dim greatly, becoming nearly fully dark as he absorbed the power from the crystal.

When only a faint glow from the crystal remained, a voice boomed from the earth. “Begone from this place of knowledge unholy one!” With his concentration broken, the dwarf stepped back from the crystal with a cry “KAVIR OZ URGUAN!” before another bright flash of red blinded the dwarves that watched helplessly.

 

 

And when they regained their sight, the figure was gone, and the crystal began to glow steadily once more.

 

 

[Naj 545]

*Jorik gasps*

[Daisy 9735]

*Onar Ireheart then commissions the construction of the library where the crystal was found.*

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/114926-strike-your-pick-and-ready-your-hammers-construction-begins/

[Glyc 234]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.