Editing Midnight RPG - Chapter 43.473 (section)

== '''"SEER SIGHT - the bloody box"''' ==
:*  The wood and iron straps of the box were first assembled in a small carpenters home/shop just north of Eisen.  This is it's "birth" as a portal for Durgaz's sight.
:*  That shop was raided in tax collection by a deformed Erenlander minor priest of Shadow and his goblin/hobgoblin guard.  The box-maker was nailed to the roof of his shop for having unlawful tools found in a hollow anvil.  He was not dead, but was being attacked by crows of the north when the tax-collector band road away.
:*  The trip north zig-zagged back and forth along the Road of Ruin.  The tax-collector's band never ventured more than 5-6 miles from the road, keeping in sight as much as possible of the Shadow Highway as they grew "richer" with booty collected.
:*  Entering the squallor entrances to the hell on Aryth that is Eisen finally, the tax-collector bartered off as much of his collection as he could for food and safety while in the tortured village.  Eisen was furious at this time, as it seemed many "runners" with news from the Erethor and Gamerillian front were returning to the FeyKiller.
:*  The box was handed over to a hobgoblin that used if for several weeks to stand victims on as he hung then flayed them.
:*  Left to rot with blood, Edgar Chander (the Ungral) grabbed the box up some weeks later where he brought it to his master's horse band.
:*  From Eisen it followed the Road of Ruin, occassionally stopping at hostels and villages - the Legate band taking food/bedding and searching for a group fitting your descriptions.
:*  This led the box and the band to Baden's Bluff, where rumors that Diero recognized as sounding as though your group could be involved led him on the Road of Salt and Tears, beyond and into the Erethor.  It was in the Bluff that Diero was "traded" a pack of bloody-blood-thirsty mountain hounds bartered for information given to a gaunt man with skin stretched over his frame of a mix of Dorn/Sarcosan descent  (stangely similar in "look" to Kyuad actually as far as his gauntness).
:*  Into the Erethor and the Green March they travelled looking for the Legend...!  Diero found Shealgruf's legion coming down from "retaking" (for the moment) the Gauntlet (to prove that he could) for the Legates of the Rivers Fang.  The box then travelled (hanging from one of the Bloody Borther's hourses)  Diero south nearly 100 miles from the forest edge.  There the box saw the deal struck with One-Arm... THIS would be glorious he told the general!  While he described as much as he knew to the Legend, Diero actually either held back or truly knew little about your heroic group.  He spoke much of Kyuad and (you) Durgaz, but only minor descriptions of an Elf and the fact they were corrupting other shadow priests for your resistance cell  (ie.  Zal and Ahemia who resembled Legates!).
:*  Diero watched the Battle for First-Hold, holding the Bloody Brothers Chander from rushing in.  He chose a small stock from the Hobgoblin "Trigger" unit at this time.  And following the battle gone badly retreated with them and the other Legate Clerics into the deeper Erethor.
:*  For weeks they waited and evaded.
:*  Finally Diero ordered the Brothers to sneak in and capture people/families, etc... Until he could get something of use.
:*  Once gathering this "distraction" he sent the Hobgoblins and Legates toward the northern shore (as well as sending Neega to find the Vanguard) to create a distraction to get the Black Mask orcs to move away from First-Hold.  Where he then offered a barter to First-Hold:  Collune for the families he'd captured.  Collune freely gave herself.
:*  Used to stand Collune on as she was tortured, her blood and intestines running down the box...  It was finally given the contents of the woman's head.
:*  Travelling out of the forest and up the Road of Ruin, they road hard to the Bluff.  There in town, the aftermath of the Death of Zaindal was crazed.  Diero used this confusion to find his way into a hidden temple where he merged with the twin-Mirror of the Bluff.
:*  Burned of any flesh and blood spilt on it from the mirror's power, the box would have emerged in the cradle of the Eye of Shadow.  Gasterfang.  But it didn't... Diero tossed it from the "Grey Realms"  (this unholy Path of Dal Colia)  into the Cold Downs as he watched Anaximath pass over your band of heroes!
:*  And now the remaining bits of it lie where it fell  (I assume you took a part of a board from it or something).



::  During the torturing of Collune, while the box was at the feet of her "torture rack" and the Bloody Brothers Chander were nearly finishing having their way with here... In the near background you could hear the conversations of the Legate Diero and Anaximath the Vangaurd.  They spoke as if newly built allies.  A deal was struck.  It seemed the Dragon was actually prompted into taking the deal from Diero's intimidation regarding HIS master's wishes...  <br> This exchange did seem to support a "barter" that could be had... One thing that Diero would accept that he told the Vanguard...  
::::   '''''"...capturing the Lich 'alive' if possible... dead if necessart, but the BODY must stay intact... the Priest seeks to examine it."'''''  
::  ... is the agreement that the dragon agreed to.   


You are free to dig deeper in any of those areas if you like.  Just ask any questions and I'll direct the "conversations" as you like.