Friday, May 13, 2011

Character Concepts 3, 4

The wind whistled and shrieked. Clouds streaked across the sky. The windbringer raised his arms, trailing ritual seals, as Akadi's messenger raged next to him, nearly invisible. Across the field, Grumbar's priest stood steadfast.

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Eternity loomed. Kelred was blinded by its majesty, but a third eye kept rapt attention. It had been open and refused to close. He could see himself, streaming through the endless, as if from afar. His cloak and clothes dissolved into reaching arms and terrible creatures and he knew this was their true form all along. Watching himself, resplendent in the glory of his own divinations, Kelred did not see the body turn its head towards his vantage and smile gruesomely.

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