On a starry Moon-filled spring night, a cloaked man came frantically pounding at the gates. The dark Dwarven Empire, within the dying volcanic Mountain the plumes of smoke from the Dwarven Forge heated by the molten rock they're the man leaves a child and infant be found not long by one of the Gards on a night Patrol there was no note only a child with a small piece of obsidian. you looked closely at long enough you might realize that it dimly glowed and what not to take long for that dark skinned elven child that was left to be found even by the note to something King this is because the king's brother head of the kings guard what's the one who found the child he took her in and when he did he chose to raise her as his own but he did not adopt her wasn't but a few days later that he would show him the child who was left behind King was outwardly cold and Stern but in the face of a small child his heart melted and with it a deapining glow to his eyes came down all the walls and he to act like a doting father the King clearing his voice before returning to his more stoic persona it would be his command that the child be taken care of not just by his brother but by all Dwarfs King fear that without us his word that many of the other dwarves me ostracize her as they were not all of that accepting of outsiders this being said it would be found out that Kings worry was for naught bothered be many years without much trouble it seems that the young child would grow into a beautiful woman and the young child would not only melt the heart of the king but too many others she was happy and when she smiled it was like the sun she grow to be a very interesting one Chef cost Delta self into the more common Arts of the dwarves being smithing in such but she had her nose and many books she's very inquisitive and very much enjoyed learning just this left her with a very logical and methodical mindset till her she was beautiful and the doting King who was not officially her father but a slip of the tongue more often than not lead others to believe otherwise she could also be cold shut even found a way to farm mushrooms within the caves of the city not the typical variety of spring up every so often within the caves she had calculatively and methodically conlnies almost engineer them to grow much larger and faster soon very soon they became one of the largest and most profitable things that dark dwarven Empire would offload to the rest of the world because of thisshe had been given an allowance or a percentage of the sales from these mushrooms but she never claimed it not even once always stashing it into a vault and only ever asking for more books Obsidian glass stone that she had been found with as a child Loosely hung from her neck though it seemed to Glow it's magical properties why not able to be found the once one of the Craftsman tried to cut the stone into a beautiful gem for her his tools and it shattered when trying and they had decidedly enough decided not to pursue that Quest any longer but this had become her life she loved The Troggs and never for one moment thought of her as anything other I'm at for self at least at the very least honorary this being said being raised byby dwarves as a hole meant that she had very large family one that she loved her very dearly she never once thought of finding her biological mother and father she simply thought they must be dead said to her there is no other family then the ones who raised her she had a habit of going to the orphanage and helping the children there learn to fend for themselves by this she would teach the children her craft of growing mushrooms so that they too could grow mushrooms when they grow older because many times the offense did not learn a family craft many times I say try to become merchants and they had off outside of the mountain keep and more often than not and do not return this is either because they found a better life set shelter children did not survive the outside of the world so she taught them she taught them because no one else would she taught them because nobody else could everybody else had their own families to teach and take care of and so because so many had done so for her she would do the same for them Joey sound at a terrible waste as such Abel and beautiful 12 in children to grow up and never return This being said I only did she teach the children but children that would help her with her mushrooms the ones who prove themselves able and willing she paid them she paid them a wage a proper wage more often these were the older children and these children would spend their wage on the younger children this taught the children the meaning of good work and good reward but there was an demon she had read about who a quote that stuck with her ironically because this quote stuck with her she had Twisted its meaning into her own head even changed the words her version was “give me your damned you're undesired you're unwanted I will make them mine and when I do they will become my children” the original quote had it be for giving the few the mangled the rotten to become this evil demons Army some bizarre way she felt a kinship to this evil demon but she her self did not feel evil I guess it was a chaotic nature that they both shared this demon to enjoyed fungus it was by studying this and some of the old books be before selling them outside of the mountain that she was able to learn how to grow her mushrooms Now as her 20th birthday nears there is a ritual a right to adulthood within the community and this wasn't a Dwarven thing this was a Rite of Passage for her Homeland alone here in the mountain Thor it was the dwarves who would go out an experience the outside world not for brief moments but for a month or two this was most often done during a trade route why are they you take some Goods sell them off do a party in return almost every dwarf does it in one way or another almost always nearing your 20th birthday even though you're well into adulthood by then if you were still considered a child until you've done the right not technically our by any laws just simply by your peers such large so Sarah and her ankle the king's brother along with a few his trusted friends go out taking many Goods her selection of goods were some very high-quality books that she had kept aside for this day find she's going to celebrate she's going to celebrate but that's much coin that she could and celebrate think that as it was a huge success her uncle had gotten so drunk that he had accidentally started hitting on one of the guards not a female one either that boy that that man look like a hot woman to him granted he was blessed with a fantastic beard very well-kept Micah Dwarven woman's beard Sarah celebrated with a few too many drinks of alcohol as well as procuring for herself some magical Scrolls send a few new books to read the one she got back one particularly had only glanced at briefly but it looked like that the merchant didn't quite understand what it was that he had and honestly neither did she she only understood that it could bring the dead back to life inferi now I feel so bad that there are many ways to do this but she had never gotten her hands on a spell Scroll of such a thing in order to study it that's actually took up most of her spending money for the celebration but it was fine her uncle gave her all of his earnings from the trip asbo the celebratory thank you and an early birthday gift later on as they return to the mountain they noticed that the eversmoking forge of the dwarves which had been in constant use and maintenance almost the entirety of the Founding of the Kingdom it's Lodge smoke plumes that left the mountain ever smoking as though it was still very active to this day is left empty not just empty you couldn't see any signs of the smoke for any length of distance but Sarah and her uncle looked at each other word lie before Sarah took the reins the horses and slapped them hard against their backs she wanted to get home as quickly as possible and if anybody had seen them they would have thought that they were running for their lives unreality turn training for the lives of her family because she didn't know what was going on and neither does her uncle and that scared her the most it wouldn't be until they had long since passed the First wall of the entrance finding that there were no guards at her and the door was wide open then I say enter the mountain keep area there too but no gods and they could see that the great entrance to the mountain was open ever so small just large enough for anybody to waltz right in normally that this isn't the problem but there still were no guards that should never be so because of this Sarah runs up the stairs up to the gate and through it finding bodies everywhere Dwarven bodies she hardly rushes to the closest one looks at it does a glowing gas across its body like a large blade had sliced right through it butts it was weird the clothing the armor even the flesh beneath it was uncut what does/have depth look like it would cut right into you it was almost ethereal this did not make sense check for pulse nothing the body was cold there was no heartbeat she listened on the chest it's breath was still there was no life she looked around every dwarf around her the same/across the chest sometimes on the face the head torso back but it was always one single gouge across the body Sarah felt her heart drop and she glanced with every new corpse and body around her she felt her heart shatter again and again and again every new person every old memory each fragment shattered again every single one of these people or her family she has just lost them all she wanted to cry she wanted to scream and yell but she can't her body won't let her she feels so cold because of this blacks out not rembering anything the moments leading up to her standing in the rain the gates of her home shut her back to it her hand bleeding but it dose not matter she begains to walk away a long long way from anything she could have ever once called home perhaps to Arcas
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