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The first glied his gaze from Fear’s dark, haunted eyes, and looked down into the pit To the very base, to the skull of that slain dragon ‘They killed him’

‘They destroyed his corporeal body, yes And imprisoned his soul’

‘Scabandari Bloodeye,’ Rhulad said, shaking his head as if to deny all that he saw ‘He cannot be dead That skull is not-’

‘It is,’ Fear said ‘They killed our god’

‘Who?’ Trull deods And Eleint The Elder gods loosed the blood in their veins The dragons spawned a child of indescribable terror, to seek out and hunt down Scabandari Bloodeye Father Shadoas brought down An Elder god named Kilmandaros shattered his skull They then ony beyond measure, to last until the Abyss itself is devoured

‘Hannan Mosag od’

Trull frowned ‘The Elder gods are gone, Fear As are the Eleint Hannan Mosag comented warren’

‘Four hundred and twenty-odd thousand Edur,’ Rhulad said ‘And, for all our endless explorations, we have found no kin a sees through stained thoughts It is one thing to challenge Letherii hegemony with sume war against every god in this world?’

Fear slowly nodded ‘You are here,’ he told them, ‘and you have been told what is known Not to see you bend to one knee and praise the Warlock King’s name He seeks power, brothers He needs power, and he cares nothing for its provenance, nor its taint’

‘Your words are treasonous,’ Rhulad said, and Trull heard a strange delight in his brother’s voice

‘Are they?’ Fear asked ‘Hannan Mosag has charged us to undertake a perilous journey To receive for hiift, brothers, from whom?’

‘We cannot deny hio in our stead And ill face banishment, or worse’

‘Of course we shall not deny him, Trull But we must not journey like blind old men’

‘What of Binadas?’ Rhulad asked ‘What does he know of this?’