[HQ Ignorance] Second Scene: University of Sog City conference room

[Lev Lafayette]

Scene Two: University of Sog City
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So the gallant and brave who heeded the call came
together to the University of Sogolotha Mambrola. Once
a great metropolis, the ravages of the end of the
Second Age and the Syndics Ban had seen much of its
green-skinned native Waertagi, and the atheist
Brithini decline in numbers to the point that the
sprawling dilapidation was now mainly inhabited by
transients and explorers.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Pelinorius
Stäarki, drew the noble volunteers together and
ensured their every comfort, especially those of the
foreign species. On the second day after the arrival
of the last members of the fellowship, the conference
was held. Deep suspicions across the conference table
were temporarily put aside as the problem was
described to the assembled. The best scholars had
indeed studied the prophetic fragment, and verified to
its authenticity. Interpeters were attempting to
discover whether the nightmares of many of the
Waertagi, prophesising the destruction of their
city-ships was related.

"But who is this Nameless Man?", he asks the
assembled. He is certainly not the ghost of Prince
Snodal, as some speculate. That ghost has been
contacted, and the Nameless Man preceeds him in any
case. Our sorcery can hardly summon this spirit as we
require a name, and he is without one. Describing him
as yet another Krjalki [chaos montser] is hardly
adequate, however our Seeing Stones have seen him
recently in Dilis Swamp, *suppressing* a great
humanoid-wolf spirit from rising from the gaseous
bog."

"So, not only does this Nameless Man appararently have
True Knowledge of the Three Weapons of Talor, which we
- all of us - *must* have in our possession for the
Hero Age, he is even to this day preventing our fall.
No matter whatever crimes he has committed in the past
for the time being he is *acting* like an ally."

"But here is our conumdrum. How does one capture and
question this Nameless Man? That is a problem I must
leave to your collective intelligence and ability..."

The speech is interrupted as a flustered student
bursts through the door, without even announcing his
presence. "My lord, I must inform you! Molene has
fallen to the Kingdom of War and has been ransacked.
Woe to mankind!"



 
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