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Mudvillegreet ghost
The ghost knight wails mournfully, and gazes into your eyes. A hollow, echoing voice seems to speak to you inside your head:<Long has it been since a mortal has visited me, in this once-proud ruin. The wererats infesting the keep wisely avoid me-- even though I am dead and bound to this room, I am still able to fight. It has been over five hundred years since I have talked with a mortal. Once, I was the commander of this keep-- a staging ground for the forces of light. It as overrun partway through the Great War, when the host of darkness was on the march through this area, on their way to Silvermere. We were quickly defeated, even though our forces were similar in size, as the incarnation of the Dark One was leading them. He was unstoppable, wielding dark magics far beyond the power of any mere mortal.>
ask ghost wererats
A look of disquiet comes over the ghost's features.<Verminous scum. Under the command of the queen of the dark-elves, who in turn is but a puppet of the Dark One. They are here crafting a plague of horrifying power, designed to slay all the mannish races and their allies-- humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, kang... all will be slain, leaving the rest of the races of the world to be preyed upon by the surviving evil forces. Fortunately for the denizens of light, they have not yet succeeded in formulating the plague, though they have crafted other, less specific diseases in their attempts. The wererats are nearly immune to plagues and are completely immune to poisons, making them ideal allies in this project. They have constructed an unholy contraption, which they pump full of concoctions, continually altering the formula and testing it on a host of slaves they have in cells below for just such purposes. Needless to say, the survival rate is very low. These heartless butchers need to be eradicated, their severed limbs strewn about the four corners of this realm! Their machine must be stopped-- you must destroy the apparatus!>
ask ghost war
The ghost's features display a sad smile.<Though we were overrun, all of Silvermere knows how the Great War ended. The Dark One underestimated the powers secretly assembled in Silvermere-- his armies had attacked fortresses of light all over the realm, and many had fallen-- but the survivors all fled to Silvermere. And many forces, seemingly routed and slain, had actually made themselves look defeated only to regroup and join the main force. Also, all the great heroes had long since traveled to Silvermere in stealth, not revealing their identities until the final battle. In this way, the incarnation of the Dark One and his legion of evil were struck down. The countless graveyards and tombs that sprung up after the war are a testament to the Dark One's cunning, however-- even with the surprize he received, he managed to slay many of the strongest heroes and their forces. Soon, I fear, he will show himself once again, his power bloated from the countless sacrifices his minions have performed over the last five hundred years. And judging from the slothful, unattentive state of the enemies of the light in current years, we have much to fear.>