Gate of Memoirs/His Final Monologue

Zeruiah interrupts Baelfyr's grand plan.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Battle Spirit" 	Music: "Battle Spirit"
 	
*With the palace in smoking ruins, Baelfyr and his Wolf's Eye guards leave the area.
*Blood and gore drip from their swords and armor into the streets beneath their stalking feet.
*What remains of the royal family and their vassals now lay slain within their chambers,
*a fanged, grinning steel mask burned into their final gasping memory.
 	
*Baelfyr: Heheheh...
*Baelfyr: See your city now, murderers!
*Baelfyr: See how these divine fires char your sin-ridden bodies into the ground!
*Baelfyr: Let our blood cleanse this impure world.
*Baelfyr: The wolves of House Auswald have returned...
 	
*Baelfyr: ...and we will not stop until every last one of you has turned to ash.
 	
*The grudge of a thousand bloodlines, he had said, when the Wolf's Eyes first came to be.
*The ruins of a fallen empire on the Eastern Plains were all that remained of House Auswald,
*lost to the annals of time in treachery and betrayal.
 	
*In the midst of his bloodlust, Baelfyr turns to face a presence that had dared come to confront him.
 	
*The echoes of derisive, howling laughter die in his throat as his eyes focus on an unexpected figure.
 	
*Zeruiah: ...Leader of Man.
*Zeruiah: You look surprised to see me.
 	
*Every click of Zeruiah's hooves on the cracked cobblestone adds the slow beat of tension to the crackling flame.
 	
*Baelfyr: Great Sage!
*Baelfyr: How kind of you to attend the grand finale.
*Baelfyr: I suppose it's only fair, since the Vale had the honor of being the opening act.
 	
*Zeruiah: Why go through all this trouble to set your own kingdom ablaze?
Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Baelfyr: "Why", indeed.
*Baelfyr: Before Fire, I was nobody.
*Baelfyr: Tell me, Zeruiah. How am I to purge sin with the frailties of this human shell?
*Baelfyr takes a few steps toward the Starsage, embers dancing around his blackening armor.
*Baelfyr: Humans are cowards.
 	
*Baelfyr: My father had no backbone to speak of, willingly casting his noble birthright aside
*Baelfyr: to revel in peasant squalor like a common wastrel!
 	
*Baelfyr: House Auswald's banner cast to the dirt; that majestic wolf never to lift its head to howl in pride.
*Baelfyr: No, it is as much the sins of my father, and his father before,
*Baelfyr: along with the wretched, selfish kings of these lands, that drove us to ruin.
*Baelfyr: Their greedy sons fattened on the blood-soaked hands of their treacherous ancestors.
*Baelfyr: A hundred years, Zeruiah! And not a single scion of those last survivors had risen to reclaim our glory.
*Baelfyr: Until I came along.
 	
*Zeruiah: A hundred years is but the blink of an eye to me, Baelfyr.
*Zeruiah: Your quest for vengeance concerns me not.
*Zeruiah: Did you think you could leverage the Fae as a stepping stone without consequence?
*Zeruiah: Alraune was right.
*Zeruiah: I tire of your machinations, betrayer of Fire.
 	
*Baelfyr: So you came to end me, then.
 	
*Zeruiah: Millenia have passed since the creation of the Vale, and yet I have never crossed so far beyond its boundaries.
*Zeruiah: But you...are unforgivable.
*Zeruiah: You may trample human life as you see fit...
*Zeruiah: ...but it is the Fae I have sworn to protect.
*Zeruiah: You will not abscond your crimes...
*Zeruiah: Baelfyr.