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The city of Ureh was reborn. The ghosts were no more, replaced by people. Some wearing helmets and proper armor. Everyone cheering and welcoming those responsible for their revitalized city.
Everyone was given freedom to explore Ureh, and celebrate with the people with food and wine. Humbart requested a moment to talk with Zayl, warning him that nothing of what Lord Juris Khan said fit with the praying Gregus Mazi he remembered. One who sought redemption. Humbart suggested to find any object that belonged to Greg Mazi to summon his shade for interrogation.
Zayl tricked one of the women pretending he thought Greg Mazi was a monster for cursing this place. Zayl suggested any belongings even his home should be burned. The woman said there wouldn't be much to burn, his housing was the old monastery inside a cave which existed before the city was even built.
Zayl broke the wards sealing the stony doorway into Gregus Mazi's sanctum with help of the skull Humbart, and within found a cape that belonged to Mazi. Taking a couple of hairs off it, he cut his finger to place three blood drops on the hairs. He chanted a spell and expected the shade of Mazi to appear before him for questioning.
However, the figure of smoke vanished, and the hairs turned to ash. Zayl told Humbart this only meant that Gregus Mazi was still among the living. Kentril on the other hand went to the library to convince Quov Tsin to make Lord Juris Khan change his mind about making another attempt to make the way to Heaven. Instead to permanently get Ureh to return to the physical world. Thus Kentril could keep Atanna, and Quov Tsin could have access to the library permanently. Otherwise, they would both lose their interests once Lord Juris Khan had accomplished his desire to transcend Ureh to Heaven.
Zayl revealed Captain Dumon what he discovered at the old monastery in the cave and requested not to tell anything yet to Atanna or Lord Juris Khan. There was something fishy about their tale concerning Gregus Mazi. He sensed he was still alive and within the palace.
They sought the vizjerei Quov Tsin, but to their surprise the library was empty, and Gorst who was set to watch over the old man was missing too. Atanna arrived to the library and led both to the throne room, where the servants placed a table before Lord Juris Khan who couldn't move off his wooden chair. Quov Tsin convinced the king to dismiss his wish to trascend Ureh to Heaven. The reason they wished to do so in the first place no longer is a threat to them. They could teach mortals in the world the ways to earn Heaven, bringing a new era to the people of Sanctuary.
Quov Tsin was convinced within three days his calculations based on all he had read in the library could allow him to counter the spell of Gregus Mazi to free Lord Juris Khan of his curse, the one binding him to the wooden chair.
Thus, Lord Juris Khan offered Quov Tsin to be his left hand, the Royal Sorcerer. To Captain Kentril Dumon to be his commander, his general, a prince of the land with his own state and right to have servants. As a member of nobility, he could marry Princess Atanna if he wished so.
Kentril and Gorst made their way out of the palace, to the mountain side beneath the palace. Their Zayl awaited. They entered the pass toward the natural inner-caverns beneath the palace, where the Key to Shadow was placed long ago, in search of Gregus Mazi.
Withn they found the Key to Shadow, and a macabre sculpture on a stalactite, arms and legs pulled back bound to the stalactite. Shortly after Captain Dumon hit it with his sword, the grotesque figure opened its mouth and screamed in agony. Lesser-demons, some bat-like flying at them, others reptile-like on ground to knee-level attacked the trio.
After a fog spell by Zayl, all of them were dead. Kentril took another look at the sculpture, and declared this might be Gregus Mazi. Zayl confirmed it when Humbart the skull took a look at it, recognizing his former employer. Humbart Wessel requested the trio to give Gregus Mazi a proper death. In his state, he was still alive, in agony, trapped for eternity as part of the mountain.
Borrowing Zayl's ivory dagger, Captain Dumon buried it in Gregus Mazi's chest. Now he rested in peace.
They returned to the palace just to find Lord Juris Khan restored from the curse, now able to walk without the prison-like wooden/stone chair. Quov Tsin and Atanna were successful. The king went to the balcony to announce to his people the day was drawing near for when they would return to the world. He presented before his people below the now General Kentril Dumon who would marry Princess Atanna.
Back in private, Kentril found Gorst and Quov Tsin. Gorst had revealed to the elder wizard what happened in the cave. And worst, during the spellwork to restore Lord Juris, he had moved almost risking to fail their mission to dispell the curse. Gorst calculated that happened about the same time they were killing Gregus Mazi, and wondered if somehow the king knew.
Kentril suggested Zayl to perform his ritual to find out if the three missing men were dead or alive, but for all intent they couldn't find any belongings in their rooms, and suspisciously they couldn't find any of the palace's servants.
Suddenly, it stroke Zayl. Gregus Mazi was now dead, he could attempt the summoning of the shade of Mazi to find out the truth. Zayl went to the passage opening of the caverns to perform the summoning. Gregus Mazi was only able to utter a single word before his smoke form burned away: Diabloooooo.
A warning too late. The rock around Zayl took life of its own and crushed Zayl. The pressure caused him to black out.
Lord Juris Khan reached the library and requested Quov Tsin to follow him. Both walked past a door the elder mage didn't realize was there before, and both went down a long stairway to the depths of the palace.
Deep beneath the palace, long before Ureh was built this room existed. Before the Eastern or Western Kingdoms existed. Created by precursors of the Rathmians, Lord Juris Khan's people, and the Vizjerei brotherhood. Lord Juris wondered if they were even human or heavenly servants sent to prepare the way.
The platform where Lord Juris wished Quov Tsin to work their spells upon, had been built to be a focus of primal forces. Runes of power were etched around the platform. One mark caught Quov Tsin's interest. He couldn't make out what the stain was. Lord Juris said it was blood.
Zayl was unconscious. Humbart called to him. Zayl realized he was under a stalactite, his arms and legs pinned backward, suffering the same fate of Gregus Mazi. That one, however, sunk on Mazi for centuries making it impossible to revert. Zayl's curse was slowly transforming his body to be part of Mountain Nymyr, but he still had hope.
Humbart described where his ivory dagger was, not far from Humbart. In his mind, Zayl visualized it, and called upon it. The ivory dagger flew across the cavern to his hand, and with all his might he spoke a spell. The curse shattered allowing Zayl to fall to the ground.
Kentril told Atanna about Gregus Mazi. Her father had lied. The wizard was alive all this time deep in the caverns, cursed into stone, but alive. Until he freed his spirit. He asked if she noticed anything different from his father, or suspected anything was amiss with him all these years.
He also confronted her about the three missing men that never returned, and now Zayl and Albord were missing too. She dismissed his words, and declared they only need themselves, everyone else is didn't matter. She had asked her father she wanted Kentril. And her father granted her that wish.
This sunk hard on Kentril. It was madness. Accidentally as he walked away from her, he felt pushed forward. Atanna fell through the balcony to her apparent death. Kentril couldn't believe what happened. He had to tell Lord Juris it was an accident. He went through the door in the main hall where he saw Atanna come from when he found her.
The door led to a long spiral stairway. No torchlights on sight, yet the place was illuminated. He reached an iron door with a gargoyle head and a ring on its beak. Suddenly he heard Atanna's voice: "Tezarka". He thought he imagined the voice out of guilt. The door opened.
There in a vast hexagon-shaped room Kentril found Quov Tsin. Lord Juris Khan had brought Quov Tsin here to aid in the spell to bring Ureh back to the physical world of Sanctuary.
Suddenly, Lord Juris Khan appeared behind Captain Kentril Dumon. Kentril apologized for his daughter's death, but Juris acted as nothing was wrong. He said she was alright. Behind him, Atanna spoke. Her head was bent to the side barely held by her neck, and her left arm was bent in an impossible manner. Lord Juris said she was a little broken, but not dead.
Gorst couldn't find Kentril, and decided to return to his room. He walked past the six soldiers guarding their rooms, and a shadow caught the corner of his eye. He investigated, and saw nothing. He looked something odd in a wall, and suddenly the mirage broke. Zayl fell to Gorst's receiving arms. Zayl asked him in pain to take him to his room.
There Humbart the skull asked Gorst to retrieve a yellow potion from one of the bags found in the room. Gorst put it in Zayl's mouth. Shortly after, Zayl was healed completely. Both walked out of the room under a spell that would make them invisible to walk past the guards. However, these were no humans as Zayl thought. They were golems. They attacked them.
Zayl used his favorite spells for this type of threat: Talon of Trag'Oul (a bone spear) and summoned the Den'Trag (the Teeth of Trag'Oul -- a shower of swift, deadly shafts). Gorst fought with his mighty axe. However, these golems adapted to both spells and weapons, and wouldn't be affected a second time. Zayl asked Gorst to switch targets. They succeeded and went on their way to search for Captain Kentril Dumon.
