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	standing, reaching out his arms to Durgaz, Khalim puts his hands on the broadshoulders of the orc in a show of support...		standing, reaching out his arms to Durgaz, Khalim puts his hands on the broadshoulders of the orc in a show of support...
	: '''''"...and you also are no fool, and if you have seen the heart of me you will know of my way... It is only with trust that we can claim victory. It is the only thing a man can give or refuse to give that cannot be taken from him. And at times trust will be broken in this world of treachery to be sure, yet for light to shine from the stars of old we must yet be willing to offer it. <br> <br> We will gather then, Thora will cook for you and your..........''''' Khalim pauses to correct your word, companions is not right here he feels - if Durgaz has listened. '''''.......'friends'. I willnot force her to be remembered of those days so long ago - but if she is willing... I will allow it. I know not the details of Prince Jaedyn, nor the deal made in those days past but I will offer what I know... but yes... the cells. It is not something of which I speak lightly. It is not something many of this port know. I speak little of it so that my old friends can continue on. The pirates of this place still wage deals with Baden's men and others, but knowing the internals of such would be dangerous to the cause. <br> I see it in you though, as I spoke before... you just need a hand to get back along the way. You will give me your honor... your oath and we will be bound - you and I in kinship. And I will tell you this of my ... of OUR friends... <br> <br> I have only been in his presence, heard him speak once - Tomas Baden, Prince of Baden’s Bluff and a true king of Erenland - he is the key of resistance for the cells within cities far and wide around the Pelluria. It was few years ago Tomas told of a vision he had in dream... he said he awoke from a glorious but terrifying nightmare-dream. In that dream, he saw what would happen if the resistance achieved its goals. He saw people fighting back, not just as scattered moments of glory against the night, but as a coordinated rage capable of throwing back the Shadow. He dreamed of the Fey Killer’s death at the hands of an orc traitor and of the great tower in Theros Obsidia crumbling in demong-fires. He said his dream showed him how to accomplish those goals. He explained parts of this vision to the liege-men, but feared to reveal his plot to the fullest extent; some thought because that plan would find it's way to the Enemy while others fear his people would think him mad at the story of it. <br> <br> We met on the docks, it was an old war-torn middle-man (Erenlander) called Sergeloth that aided Prince Jaedyn and our crew as we were funnelling considerable supplies both into and out of the Gamariallian Delta near the Rivers Fang for the farie-folk. We met in the Bluff at a place called the Tussle House. Now mind you 'friend', despite the occupant clientel and the reputation of the house of ill repute it was a welcome feast-hall and gathering place in the city - I remember the owner, an Erenlander madam named Dell... quite lovely, she was. ...... That was so long ago now... <br> <br> I've had need to send away for quills and parchment on occassion, my daughter loves the flowing lines of finely made elven brushes.... so I know of a smuggler that plies the Pelluria should you wish to find your way in. She knows of the cells.... and of Baden. She spends much of her time between the cells maintaining her cover as a loyal shipper of goods, coordinating the activities of dozens of smugglers. She holds a great deal about their logistics and intelligence network, far more than any one operative should know in my humble opinion... the wily gal......heheh... what activities she does not learn of from the Inner Circle, she ends up learning of from the mouths of her kinsmen. Her crew, her people's trust for her is unbreakable. If the legates discover and break her, the resistance could lose dozens of caches and an untold number of agents. <br> ...Delwen Todorovichi. I call her 'Vichi... She goes by Delwen to most, even her crew. But she's a true Pirate Captain of sea and sails! Like no other. <br> <br> <br> So now Durgaz, son of the Kranklobûrz, maugurk of the Dafrum-Dâgalûr-matûrz you seem to be a man looking for honor, and if you ask for my help, I will gladly give it. Whether you care for it or not, Khalim Nahon-Duhale son of Ismar Toren of Menah-Seton is now your friend. My family would be your family. And know this Durgaz, son of the Kranklobûrz - my wife, my children, I... am NO GAP in one's armor! <br> ...so say we all Durgaz, son of the Kranklobûrz? So say we all my 'friend'?"'''''		: '''''"...and you also are no fool, and if you have seen the heart of me you will know of my way... It is only with trust that we can claim victory. It is the only thing a man can give or refuse to give that cannot be taken from him. And at times trust will be broken in this world of treachery to be sure, yet for light to shine from the stars of old we must yet be willing to offer it. <br> <br> We will gather then, Thora will cook for you and your..........''''' Khalim pauses to correct your word, companions is not right here he feels - if Durgaz has listened. '''''.......'friends'. I willnot force her to be remembered of those days so long ago - but if she is willing... I will allow it. I know not the details of Prince Jaedyn, nor the deal made in those days past but I will offer what I know... but yes... the cells. It is not something of which I speak lightly. It is not something many of this port know. I speak little of it so that my old friends can continue on. The pirates of this place still wage deals with Baden's men and others, but knowing the internals of such would be dangerous to the cause. <br> I see it in you though, as I spoke before... you just need a hand to get back along the way. You will give me your honor... your oath and we will be bound - you and I in kinship. And I will tell you this of my ... of OUR friends... <br> <br> I have only been in his presence, heard him speak once - Tomas Baden, Prince of Baden’s Bluff and a true king of Erenland - he is the key of resistance for the cells within cities far and wide around the Pelluria. It was few years ago Tomas told of a vision he had in dream... he said he awoke from a glorious but terrifying nightmare-dream. In that dream, he saw what would happen if the resistance achieved its goals. He saw people fighting back, not just as scattered moments of glory against the night, but as a coordinated rage capable of throwing back the Shadow. He dreamed of the Fey Killer’s death at the hands of an orc traitor and of the great tower in Theros Obsidia crumbling in demong-fires. He said his dream showed him how to accomplish those goals. He explained parts of this vision to the liege-men, but feared to reveal his plot to the fullest extent; some thought because that plan would find it's way to the Enemy while others fear his people would think him mad at the story of it. <br> <br> We met on the docks, it was an old war-torn middle-man (Erenlander) called Sergeloth that aided Prince Jaedyn and our crew as we were funnelling considerable supplies both into and out of the Gamariallian Delta near the Rivers Fang for the farie-folk. We met in the Bluff at a place called the Tussle House. Now mind you 'friend', despite the occupant clientel and the reputation of the house of ill repute it was a welcome feast-hall and gathering place in the city - I remember the owner, an Erenlander madam named Dell... quite lovely, she was. ...... That was so long ago now... <br> <br> I've had need to send away for quills and parchment on occassion, my daughter loves the flowing lines of finely made elven brushes.... so I know of a smuggler that plies the Pelluria should you wish to find your way in. She knows of the cells.... and of Baden. She spends much of her time between the cells maintaining her cover as a loyal shipper of goods, coordinating the activities of dozens of smugglers. She holds a great deal about their logistics and intelligence network, far more than any one operative should know in my humble opinion... the wily gal......heheh... what activities she does not learn of from the Inner Circle, she ends up learning of from the mouths of her kinsmen. Her crew, her people's trust for her is unbreakable. If the legates discover and break her, the resistance could lose dozens of caches and an untold number of agents. <br> ...Delwen Todorovichi. I call her 'Vichi... She goes by Delwen to most, even her crew. But she's a true Pirate Captain of sea and sails! Like no other. <br> <br> <br> So now Durgaz, son of the Kranklobûrz, maugurk of the Dafrum-Dâgalûr-matûrz you seem to be a man looking for honor, and if you ask for my help, I will gladly give it. <br> Whether you care for it or not, Khalim Nahon-Duhale son of Ismar Toren of Menah-Seton is now your friend. My family would be your family. And know this Durgaz, son of the Kranklobûrz - my wife, my children, <br> ...I... am NO GAP in one's armor! <br> <br> ...so say we all Durgaz, son of the Kranklobûrz? <br> <br> So say we all my 'friend'?"'''''

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	"I do not fear for your life or mine, Sarcosan, and your 'honor' means nothing to me. If I fear for anything at all, it is for a future, any future at all. You care for your children, obviously ... do you truly believe that they have ten or twenty years? I do not. I don't know how long it has been since you set foot in the lands around the Pelluria, or how much you people know of what is going on outside, but this world is on its last legs. It has barely another generation of life left in it before it is ground permanently beneath the Shadow's heel. Your motives may be just, but withdrawing from the world to raise your children inside an illusion of peace only serves to guarantee that, if that illusion lasts long enough for them to grow up, there will no longer be any world left for them to go out and fight for when they do."		"I do not fear for your life or mine, Sarcosan, and your 'honor' means nothing to me. If I fear for anything at all, it is for a future, any future at all. You care for your children, obviously ... do you truly believe that they have ten or twenty years? I do not. I don't know how long it has been since you set foot in the lands around the Pelluria, or how much you people know of what is going on outside, but this world is on its last legs. It has barely another generation of life left in it before it is ground permanently beneath the Shadow's heel. Your motives may be just, but withdrawing from the world to raise your children inside an illusion of peace only serves to guarantee that, if that illusion lasts long enough for them to grow up, there will no longer be any world left for them to go out and fight for when they do."


			==<font color=red>Khalim</font>




	==Durgaz==		==Durgaz==

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	"I do not fear for your life or mine, Sarcosan, and your 'honor' means nothing to me. If I fear for anything at all, it is for a future, any future at all. You care for your children, obviously ... do you truly believe that they have ten or twenty years? I do not. I don't know how long it has been since you set foot in the lands around the Pelluria, or how much you people know of what is going on outside, but this world is on its last legs. It has barely another generation of life left in it before it is ground permanently beneath the Shadow's heel. Your motives may be just, but withdrawing from the world to raise your children inside an illusion of peace only serves to guarantee that, if that illusion lasts long enough for them to grow up, there will no longer be any world left for them to go out and fight for when they do.		"I do not fear for your life or mine, Sarcosan, and your 'honor' means nothing to me. If I fear for anything at all, it is for a future, any future at all. You care for your children, obviously ... do you truly believe that they have ten or twenty years? I do not. I don't know how long it has been since you set foot in the lands around the Pelluria, or how much you people know of what is going on outside, but this world is on its last legs. It has barely another generation of life left in it before it is ground permanently beneath the Shadow's heel. Your motives may be just, but withdrawing from the world to raise your children inside an illusion of peace only serves to guarantee that, if that illusion lasts long enough for them to grow up, there will no longer be any world left for them to go out and fight for when they do."

	"But you may know this, because you are obviously not a fool. These resistance cells you speak of ... I know nothing of any resistance, save the one in Baden's Bluff, which seemed scattered and ineffective. But maybe these other cells truly have something to offer. I would not expect you tell me anything about them, because I am an orc, and as I said, you are obviously not a fool. But if you trust in any of my companions, or truly believe in anything that I have said, perhaps you could provide one of them with the means to contact this resistance."

	==Durgaz==		==Durgaz==

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	"You need not worry; the traitor is dead. His name was Krell, and he was a Sarcosan mercenary who found his way to this place and tried to barter it away in exchange for passage to Highwall. He died earlier this evening, at the hand of a man whose family he had slain. He will not threaten you again, but the demons with whom he sought to barter, and who apparently still hold your prince in thrall, are still as powerful as ever~~. Why should we expect any effectiveness, or will to fight back, from a people who so complacently accept rule under such creatures? I do not understand~~."		"You need not worry; the traitor is dead. His name was Krell, and he was a Sarcosan mercenary who found his way to this place and tried to barter it away in exchange for passage to Highwall. He died earlier this evening, at the hand of a man whose family he had slain. He will not threaten you again, but the demons with whom he sought to barter, and who apparently still hold your prince in thrall, are still as powerful as ever."

	==Durgaz==		==Durgaz==

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	...again smiling, this time with intent and eagerness - Khalim grips the small log that he'd broken from the tree...		...again smiling, this time with intent and eagerness - Khalim grips the small log that he'd broken from the tree...
	: '''''"...There is no need to speak of such things of the past my 'friend'."''''' Khalim, not wanting to see Durgaz fumble for a weakened word of thanks. That is NOT the way of the warrior... he speaks again, this is the way... '''''"Remember this when another human extends his hand. Remember this when another threatens you by calling you by the very word of 'orc' in a hateful tongue. Remember that it is only with the chance of trust that Khalid Nahon-Duhale son of Ismar Toren of Menah-Seton and his children may live another day.... Now, what can I do to help... my 'friend'..?"'''''		: '''''"...There is no need to speak of such things of the past my 'friend'."''''' Khalim, not wanting to see Durgaz fumble for a weakened word of thanks. That is NOT the way of the warrior... he speaks again, this is the way... '''''"Remember this when another human extends his hand. Remember this when another threatens you by calling you by the very word of 'orc' in a hateful tongue. Remember that it is only with the chance of trust that Khalid Nahon-Duhale son of Ismar Toren of Menah-Seton and his children may live another day.... Now, what can I do to help... my 'friend'..?"'''''

			==Durgaz==

			''Durgaz does not smile in return. Smiling, among the orcs, serves one of two purposes: to bare the parted fangs and tusks in a gesture of intimidation, or to reveal that the same fangs are closed and of no threat, in a gesture of subservience. Neither gesture would be recognizable to humans as a smile, at any rate.''

			"I am Durgaz, son of the Kranklobûrz, maugurk of the Dafrum-Dâgalûr-matûrz. You seem to be a man of honor, and if you offer your help, we will gladly accept it.

			"As to what you can do: I do not know if you will trust me with this information. I am an orc, and you are not a fool, and if you would prefer to entrust it to another, I will understand and I will not take offense. You have spoken of three things of importance: you mentioned resistance cells in multiple cities, you spoke of the dark influence that has befallen your prince, and you told me that you had once rescued a prisoner from the Arteries. Anything that you could share with me, or with any of my companions, on any of these topics, would be of utmost value."

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	his eyes tighten... you can tell all he wants to do is run and lash out, yet he does not. In this way his ability to hold his anger reminds you of your Sarcosan. Zal'Kazzir's family fell to the Enemy, his daughter still yet is in their hands and he waited... he held it. And only an hour ago, got part of his vengence. He must still wait to find his daughter if she lives... <br> Khalim turns his head as if shaking the feeling out, to contentrate to help you to understand...		his eyes tighten... you can tell all he wants to do is run and lash out, yet he does not. In this way his ability to hold his anger reminds you of your Sarcosan. Zal'Kazzir's family fell to the Enemy, his daughter still yet is in their hands and he waited... he held it. And only an hour ago, got part of his vengence. He must still wait to find his daughter if she lives... <br> Khalim turns his head as if shaking the feeling out, to contentrate to help you to understand...
	: '''''"...the men you killed, their families - they knew the risks. They were a part of this place and they knew the dangers. But you count me wrongly 'friend', I am not one of them. When I plied the waves for the years that I fought for Prince Norfall's banner, it was a clean sail he flew... These people were not the reavers they have become today. This dark visage of the Pirate Princes came nearly a decade ago now. I know not what came of it. Prince Jaedyn rarely revels with the men any longer, his 'court' has built a hold for him and payments to the Black Tower keeps the Wrath from our coves. Before... before the dealings with the legates and collectors they had not taken ships of non-Shadow make. They were clean in that. It is only in these later days since the Shadow's fall that they let blood pay for their treasures and pride themselves in the drink and squalor. Before... our crews would take Shadow ships and empty them in the hold cells beneath these coves, to later be used for trade when Shadow ships took prisoners of there own. Seasoned warriors seemed of worth to the generals in the Highhorns and many men were freed with our efforts. I barted myself with an orc of power called 'Darshod' for the life of my own wife Thora, I rescued ten years ago from the Artery caves... <br> It is sure that safe havens may yet be out there, yet still in this place I have found the most safety, even away from Baden's resistence cells of the Bluff. I donot wish to languish in this, but my family is my quest now. Do you not have a family to know the meaning of my words?		: '''''"...the men you killed, their families - they knew the risks. They were a part of this place and they knew the dangers. But you count me wrongly 'friend', I am not one of them. When I plied the waves for the years that I fought for Prince Norfall's banner, it was a clean sail he flew... These people were not the reavers they have become today. This dark visage of the Pirate Princes came nearly a decade ago now. I know not what came of it. Prince Jaedyn rarely revels with the men any longer, his 'court' has built a hold for him and payments to the Black Tower keeps the Wrath from our coves. Before... before the dealings with the legates and collectors they had not taken ships of non-Shadow make. They were clean in that. It is only in these later days since the Shadow's fall that they let blood pay for their treasures and pride themselves in the drink and squalor. Before... our crews would take Shadow ships and empty them in the hold cells beneath these coves, to later be used for trade when Shadow ships took prisoners of there own. Seasoned warriors seemed of worth to the generals in the Highhorns and many men were freed with our efforts. I barted myself with an orc of power called 'Darshod' for the life of my own wife Thora, I rescued ten years ago from the Artery caves...

			==Durgaz==

			''The orc's head snaps up, like a dog's when he is awoken by a sharp noise.''

			"Do you speak the truth, Sarcosan? You rescued a prisoner from the Arteries? I have not heard of such a thing. I did not know it was possible."

			==Khalim==
			It is sure that safe havens may yet be out there, yet still in this place I have found the most safety, even away from Baden's resistence cells of the Bluff. I donot wish to languish in this, but my family is my quest now. Do you not have a family to know the meaning of my words?

			==Durgaz==

			"I do not have a family any longer. They are dead, all of them. Many drowned in the sea, other fell by blade and arrow and spell; some were taken by hungry ghosts, and one died on his knees, begging for mercy. They are gone now, and I do not dwell on them, because I know the Shadow would use them against me. You and your kind speak out so strongly of the power of love and friendship, but I have seen it revealed time and time again as nothing more than a gap in one's armor, waiting only for the enemy to find it. It is a luxury that I will not afford, so that maybe someday others may, without fear."

	==Durgaz==		==Durgaz==

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	You can tell his anger rose quickly, yet controlled. His thoughts obviously on his family. If not to stop this treachery from happening again - then to know when to cut and run from this 'cell'... as he has so many times before. Though this time it's different, he can't run as fast. His children hinder him. Yet at the same time offer him the most pure strength Aryth has yet seen.		You can tell his anger rose quickly, yet controlled. His thoughts obviously on his family. If not to stop this treachery from happening again - then to know when to cut and run from this 'cell'... as he has so many times before. Though this time it's different, he can't run as fast. His children hinder him. Yet at the same time offer him the most pure strength Aryth has yet seen.

			==Durgaz==

			"You need not worry; the traitor is dead. His name was Krell, and he was a Sarcosan mercenary who found his way to this place and tried to barter it away in exchange for passage to Highwall. He died earlier this evening, at the hand of a man whose family he had slain. He will not threaten you again, but the demons with whom he sought to barter, and who apparently still hold your prince in thrall, are still as powerful as ever. Why should we expect any effectiveness, or will to fight back, from a people who so complacently accept rule under such creatures? I do not understand."

	==Durgaz==		==Durgaz==

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	''Khalim looks up at you in a way you've never seen before. The elves of the Hamlet looked at you mostly in pity, the dwarves aboard the Spear of Grief looked at you with hate, humans... they rarely meet your gaze. This human is unlike any you've ever met. Kyuad is perhaps the closest you'd been to this look. A look of care. With his head tilted down but his eyes focused up to meet yours, Khalim shakes his head a little and smiles. His teeth gleam white wide across his face, but not as orcs... not to show his constitution through baring fangs. This human... this man... seems to be willing to hear you... the honor that drives you. He has known the temptation of Shadow and has come out alive...''		''Khalim looks up at you in a way you've never seen before. The elves of the Hamlet looked at you mostly in pity, the dwarves aboard the Spear of Grief looked at you with hate, humans... they rarely meet your gaze. This human is unlike any you've ever met. Kyuad is perhaps the closest you'd been to this look. A look of care. With his head tilted down but his eyes focused up to meet yours, Khalim shakes his head a little and smiles. His teeth gleam white wide across his face, but not as orcs... not to show his constitution through baring fangs. This human... this man... seems to be willing to hear you... the honor that drives you. He has known the temptation of Shadow and has come out alive...''

			==Durgaz==

			"I do not fear for your life or mine, Sarcosan, and your 'honor' means nothing to me. If I fear for anything at all, it is for a future, any future at all. You care for your children, obviously ... do you truly believe that they have ten or twenty years? I do not. I don't know how long it has been since you set foot in the lands around the Pelluria, or how much you people know of what is going on outside, but this world is on its last legs. It has barely another generation of life left in it before it is ground permanently beneath the Shadow's heel. Your motives may be just, but withdrawing from the world to raise your children inside an illusion of peace only serves to guarantee that, if that illusion lasts long enough for them to grow up, there will no longer be any world left for them to go out and fight for when they do.

			"But you may know this, because you are obviously not a fool. These resistance cells you speak of ... I know nothing of any resistance, save the one in Baden's Bluff, which seemed scattered and ineffective. But maybe these other cells truly have something to offer. I would not expect you tell me anything about them, because I am an orc, and as I said, you are obviously not a fool. But if you trust in any of my companions, or truly believe in anything that I have said, perhaps you could provide one of them with the means to contact this resistance."

	==Durgaz==		==Durgaz==