Welcome everyone. Let's get on with the show. Enjoy and review.
O Sleeper, Waken
The night was cold in a remote, moonlit in Albalonga. Amidst flickering tapers and black blinking shapes, during the evanescing year of the Knucker, and the day before the year of the Lindworm.
A shrouded corpse lay on the ground before the gathered Evabon. Many of them were loyalists of the deceased Alaksandu but one was Orsino, one of the heralds of the long dead Mumm-Ra.
Indeed the corpse was that of Mumm-Ra himself.
"Mumm-Ra's resurrection is the key to our destiny!" said Orsino, pointing at the corpse. "Who will give their blood to resurrect him?"
There was none who dared give up their life for Mumm-Ra's resurrection. The loyalists of Alaksandu were uncertain of whether they wanted to regain Wilusa like this. They had to be a way that didn't require bringing back a monster that the labinnac, enemy of the Evabon, had flocked to. Orsino had fought alongside those anthropophagites he was a traitor who had aligned himself with a demon from some far off star!
Finally one of them stood up.
"I shall give my life."
And so it was that the blood of the sacrifice was poured onto the corpse. Within moments, there was once more life. Gone were the marks of death that had taken the Ever-Living from the mortal plane. Once more Mumm-Ra lived!
As Mumm-Ra returned to life, any marks of age and battle vanished from Orsino! Mumm-Ra was truly alive!
"Orsino… I always thought it would have been Donalbain to bring me back." There was a tone of disgust in Mumm-Ra's voice. Out of his three Evabon heralds, he had always held Donalbain in the highest regard. Donalbain was dishonorable, hubristic, perfidious to anyone that was not Mumm-Ra, and kingly. "Where is he?"
"I last saw him fourteen years ago… A statue crushed him."
"And Pumyra?"
"I know not." Orsino swallowed. "But I do know the location of the Evabon who marked you… He is in Wilusa!"