It had been a long time since Liliana had seen Jace, but there weren’t that many people she could go to for help, and she knew she needed it. “Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient” by Slawomir Maniak She had to get out of here, anywhere other than Shandalar. At the mention of her brother again she called upon the Chain Veil to finally quell the spirit. He scolded her for damming others to the void while cheating death herself. The ogre refused, further explaining that when the time was right, she would bring forth the destruction she carried within. The mention of her brother angered her and she attacked it once again begging it to take the Veil from her. “The root that was planted in you so many years ago, when you killed your brother.” “The root has not yet come to full flower in you, vessel.” She tried to dispatch it but it seemed to ignore her attacks and feel no pain. Muscles, organs, and skin began to envelope the skeleton until she saw an Onakke ogre as if it were alive and well. She fell to her knees defeated.Īnother Onakke skeleton approached her without the need for her reanimation magic. As it crumbled to the floor it lunged at her and draped the Veil on her outstretched arm. She decided that if it wouldn’t leave her, she would leave it, and quickly took the life that was animating it. She then ordered it to take the Veil to the altar but it refused to move. She demanded it take the Veil from her and it obeyed despite her body’s objection. She walked over to an Onakke skeleton and animated it. “Stupid hands! Don’t you know who’s in charge here?” She tossed it hand to hand but could not let go. She held it out in front of her to drop it but her hand refused to loosen its grip. To her disbelief she looked down and saw the Veil still in hand, thinking she had set it on the altar. She let the Veil slide to the edge of her hand and turned away to leave. Great work… But I seem to have killed two masters and taken on a million more,” she said. She entered the temple and approached the alter, the voices were growing louder. It was bad enough to hear their voices let alone be thrown into visions of them. She was in awe of the destruction she had witness, almost admiring it, but also wanted more than anything to return the Veil. ![]() She saw the ancients forest again, the dead angel, and the crumbling temple before her. She shot a blast of dark magic at it and she was suddenly pulled out of her vision. A raven landed on a building near her, stared at her, and was the first thing to take notice of her. Before her eyes, she witnessed the massacre of an entire civilizations in just a few brief moments. Any person that came into contact with the smoke met the same fate as the first. A dark purple fog filled the town and meteors fell out of the sky. Chaos ensued as the citizens ran in a panic. The ogre fell to the ground and melted into a black smear of bones and soot. Suddenly an ogre ran out of the forest and into the town square, clamoring what seemed like warnings to the others citizens. The business of the day’s errands supplanted the voices in her head. The land was younger, there were buildings, and there were Onakke ogres walking around a town. When she arose, she saw that her surroundings had changed. Liliana was taken aback by the words and the voices grew to a loud roar that sent her to her knees. With ease she blasted it with dark magic and with her dying words the angel muttered, She’d killed many angels before, and this one would be no different. Liliana wasn’t one to head warnings, especially from angels. The angel seemed to recognize the Veil resting on Liliana’s side. ![]() The crumbling ruins of the temple that had housed the Veil and the setting for Garruk’s curse.Īs she approached the temple an angel intervened, warning her to stay back. ![]() Hoof prints where she had killed the beast that Garruk sought to avenge. The voices guided her and she began to recognize places she had been before. She walked, and soon enough-as she had expected-a sort of pressure behind one eye steered her to the right. The whispers rose just to the edge of her hearing before she quashed them again. “You’ll take me there, won’t you?” she said. The power that surged through her body and illuminated her scars left her feeling weak and the voices in her head were becoming louder and more frequent. The Veil had no doubt proved itself powerful by granting Liliana the means to kill both Kothophed and Griselbrand, but had also been a heavy burden to bear. ![]() The endeavor ultimately ended in failure as she learned very little about the Onakke, was chased by a riot, and an encounter with the Raven Man only made the matters more confusing. The second was when she returned shortly thereafter to try to uncover more information about the Veil. The first was when she encountered The Chain Veil and the dangerous hunter Garruk. History & Lore: Liliana of the Veil (Part 1)
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