Gate of Memoirs/Drowning Darkness Lv.4 - Start

Tevarius turns to confront the High Priest himself, his frown is met with a bloodthirsty smirk.
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Music: "Future Resolve"	Music: "Future Resolve"
 	
*Tevarius: Khh...
*The Naga's immense siege creature utters a terrible growl before succumbing to its injuries.
*Its shell was shattered from the battle, each piece etched with a veinlike pattern from his charged strikes.
*As Tevarius turns to confront the High Priest himself, his frown is met with a bloodthirsty smirk.
 	
*Saerenthis: I gave you a choice, Tevarius. And you made a poor decision.
 	
*Saerenthis: Deep Goddess willing, let this one be drowned!
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Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*A violent storm coalesces and begins swirling menacingly over the area.
*Saerenthis's grisly skull relic pulses with a sickly green light. An eldritch chanting can be heard even over the howling winds.
 	
*Tevarius shields himself from the sudden storm, his feet rapidly sinking into the ground.
 	
*The overflow from the lake had inundated the vicinity, and the water level was slowly rising.
*All around him, Naga slip in and out of the waters, their natural affinity granting them the benefit of speed and stealth.
 	
*Tevarius: Kkhhh...
 	
*Saerenthis: All who oppose our Deep Goddess shall be sunk beneath the waves!
*Saerenthis: *Especially* the hated land-walkers.
 	
*Saerenthis: But you, Tevarius...
*Saerenthis: I know what hides beneath your human mask.
 	
*Saerenthis: You are... a dragon, no?
 	
*Tevarius: ...!
 	
*Saerenthis: Perhaps our Deep Goddess, in Her wisdom, had seen it fit to mold the Naga after your kind...
*Saerenthis: Those who called the rains in ancient times beyond mortal ken.
*Saerenthis: Look at us. Look at you. Are we not serpents of the sky and sea?
*Saerenthis: I do not know why you have chosen to take human form.
 	
*Saerenthis: It would be such a waste to refuse the open arms of the Endless Abyss...
*Saerenthis: Where our Deep Goddess can grant you all that you could ever desire.
*Saerenthis: Come back to us, ancient grah'n. We are kin.
*The Naga inch closer to Tevarius at the High Priest's command.
*Their serpentine tails leave shimmering trails in their wake across the flooded plains.
 	
*Despite the howling rains and his aching body, Tevarius stands tall against his adversaries.
*Tevarius: I am not, and will never, be one of you.
 	
*Saerenthis: I suspected as much, *morsel*...
 	
*Saerenthis: Then you are nothing but a worm to us.
 	
*Tevarius readies himself, crackling energy coalescing around his mortal form.
*Tevarius: Insolent serpent.
*Tevarius: I am Tevarius...
 	
*Tevarius: Lord of the Storm.
*With a peal of thunder and a flash of lightning, Tevarius's true form is silhouetted against the howling storm.
*The storm dragon threads its way amid the clouds, its serpentine form glistening with the splendor of gold.
*It gives a deafening roar, and Tevarius's eyes gleam with the force of nature.
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*In a time before man came to be...I was born, and it was on this infant plane I lived.
*I was content to spend my days dancing among the clouds...
*Until I saw that vast expanse of desert below me.
*A wasteland with nary a pulse of its own...
*I summoned the rains and the winds to bring rain upon the parched earth.
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*In doing so, I gave it life. My life.
*Even as I fell to earth unconscious...
*Even as I slumbered underground for centuries...
*I answered those who called for me.
*And nothing...
 	
*NOTHING will threaten my land as long as I am here.
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*Tevarius: Come then, vile serpents!
*Tevarius: Your goddess holds no sway here.
*Tevarius: Now, BEGONE!