Gate of Memoirs/Corruption

Alraune frustrated Ensa-Taya's advance… for a time.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Lone Strength"	Music: "Lone Strength"
 	
*Zeruiah: Oh, my heart. It pains me to see my beloved Vale in such a state.
*Zeruiah: The battle may be won, but at what cost?
*Zeruiah: Juno, my dear friend...savior of Aimyhr. Encased in crystal forevermore.
*Zeruiah: Life, once flourishing, now lays dead beneath my feet.
 	
**rustle*
 	
*Zeruiah: Can this be? These lingering embers...the trace of Faefire.
*Zeruiah: Spirits of this ill-fated land! What has transpired here?
*My children...my children...
 	
*Zeruiah: O spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose voice is steeped in sorrow... Speak to me.
*I hear your summons, great Starsage.I...I am...
 	
*???: Hmph! Such resistance from the inhabitants of this land. But not for much longer!
 	
*Zeruiah: This voice...
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Hmhmhm...look at this land! So lush and full of life.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: This bountiful flow of magic pleases me greatly.
*Ensa-Taya: Go forth, my servants. Devour to your heart's content.
*Ensa-Taya: Leave no survivors.
 	
*Voidborn: *SHRIEK*
 	
*Alraune: Stay back!
 	
*Voidborn: *SKREEEE!*
*The Voidborn tears into the earth spirit's bark-like arm, but is immediately ripped apart and thrown to the floor.
 	
*Alraune: You will not have your way here. Leave at once.
*Alraune: If you dare lay even a single finger on my children...
*Alraune: ...Then you will make your graves at my feet.
 	
*Voidborn: *flutter*
 	
*Ensa-Taya: What is it now?
Music: "Source Hall" 	Music: "Source Hall"
 	
*Ensa-Taya: ...What?! Useless! Out of my sight.
*Ensa-Taya: I'll deal with this impudence myself.
 	
*A thick swarm of Voidspawn fills the air with their cacophonous buzzing.
*Though the immediate vicinity is littered with corpses, a lone figure stands tall in the midst of the carnage.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Oho. So that's where it is.
*Ensa-Taya: You there, whatever you are. ...Speak, fool!
 	
*Alraune: Threaten me all you want. You won't get past me.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: That wasn't my intention.
 	
*Alraune: What-
 	
*Alraune: Aaaahh!
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Hmm, you're still standing. That IS strange. But that also reminds me of something...
*Ensa-Taya: Ah yes. That obstinate guardian of this land I drove off not too long ago.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Some guardian she is! Where is she now?
 	
*Alraune: Gh- Nngghh!
 	
*The earth spirit falls to her knees, her breaths shallow and labored.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Tch. You sure are stubborn.
 	
*Alraune: Leave...my children...be...
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Oh, don't fret. I'll give you a new and better life—under me!
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Wake, servant.
 	
*Alraune: ... ...Hhhh...
 	
*Zeruiah: ...!
 	
*Zeruiah: To be torn from the natural order of things...a fate worse than death.