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Book01: Wyld Hunted

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Summary: After finding a villiage destroyed, Cerin, Marku and Birds set out to track the remains of the Wyld Hunt.

XP:P1, C1, M1


Four days after the near-fatal battle with the pair of Immaculate Masters, three of the Sunlander Circle had returned to the villages where the meteor had fallen to Creation. Now taken away to the Labyrinth by Zahara's demons, the meteor would not attract any more attention but according to the Fire Master that now serves Markuran there were others already there. Three other Dragon-Blooded and over a hundred mortal soldiers had been sent to recover the precious metal before the Anathema could make use of it and, if possible, they were to dispatch the Anathema and as many of their followers as possible. The burned out husk of a small village gives grim testament to their mission. An ash-coated bell tolls mournfully as it hangs from a burned rope.


<BirdsOfTrinity> "This was unnecessary. I don't think this Hunt is about the metal any longer."

<Markuran?> "If it ever was.."

<Cerin?> "They sought to hurt you, and if they couldnt hurt you, then everything you care about"

<BirdsOfTrinity> "Revenge isn't exactly the best way to beautify the soul."

<Markuran?> "Then we will follow them. Rannath can bring up some of his army, if he wishes to stir himself from whatever it is he had wandered off to do this time. It will take time to raise my warriors or his..but I think the Hunt moves with little speed, busy as it is laying waste and bringing misery."

<Cerin?> "They are only a hundred or so men, and a handful of 'blooded..."

<Markuran?> "The two they sent as scouts were masters of their damned Immaculate Martial Arts. Three more won't be easy to kill." Mark's hand traces a still-tender wound across his chest, a deep slice from an icy Chakrum.

<Cerin?> "Quite probably not, but then that is what makes the hunt interesting"

<BirdsOfTrinity> "We were ambushed then. I have no intention of being so unprepared again."

<Markuran?> "They are devils to be exterminated, cut down and made to suffer for their crimes."

<Markuran?> "It was not your friends and followers murdered without cause. They will not die well if I have a choice."

<Cerin?> "Then perhaps you should not have that choice. One should never start a hunt without the intention of a clean kill. Whatever one hunts."

<Markuran?> "Would you tell the children under this piss-soaked ground that the men who did this deserve clean, honorable deaths? That they should be placated better in the afterlife then their victims, because it salves *your* conscience?"

<Cerin?> "It is not a matter of my conscience. It is a matter reason. These men have done ill, they will earn their reward in the next cycle, there is no need to sully yourself in this one for unnessary vengance that will just engender more events like it"

<BirdsOfTrinity> "What is it they say in Varang? 'Living well is the best revenge.' Perhaps you can turn these killers back on themselves and make them perform good to balance out their wickedness."

<BirdsOfTrinity> "It would make you seem like a wise and just ruler, and put the Immaculates under our thumb to crush whenever we choose."

<Markuran?> "We will see how deep their crimes run."


fade to the catching the hunt in a clearing, to the west of the destroyed village...

<BirdsOfTrinity> "You really mean that, don't you? I'm sorry that I don't have time to convince you otherwise."


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