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The Crawling Profile
Balor had taken up the sword of his namesake… A past life of his as the case would be. His namesake, the first Balor, had not just been the son of Wodanaz but of the previous life of Wodanaz. Confusing as it may sound, the first Wilusa had been ruled by a Wodanaz who bore a strong appearance to the Wodanaz but different. During the first fall of Wilusa, Wodanaz was killed by a demon tolac as was the original Balor by a knucker. The original Wilusa fell with their being a great much death with only a few of the Wilusans surviving and finding clay figurines in the likeness of those who had died and eventually two brothers and two sons found the staff of Wodanaz and grasped it together. Those four were merged together and thus was born a new Wodanaz, the grandfather of the current Balor.
Travelling with Tygra and Zuvowang, Balor then went to wear Ekoto would be and where he would be, Brigid would be!
In their travels, they came to an abandoned city. At the entrance to the city the three found writing!
Turn Back!
Here dwells the Crawling Profile!
It drove us away!
It will kill you less you stay away from this place!
Turn back!
Looking at the Tygra, Balor raised an eyebrow. "Ever seen anything like this in your travels?"
"No… Never heard of anything like this either." Tygra tapped his chin with a finger. This was strange.
"I might not be the smartest of people…" began Zuvowang. "But I know what fear is! We are to look for Brigid and I doubt Ekoto's men would have… would have brought her here!"
They were about to turn back when a sound came to their ears. "Balor! Tygra! Zuvowang!" It was Brigid's voice!
"She's here!" exclaimed Balor jumping with unbridled joy! And with that he ran into the city!
Tygra ran after him. "Balor! No!"
Zuvowang followed saying "Get back her you lovesick fool!"
As soon as Balor was ten feet into the city, he was attacked by a creature like the outlines on Strathearn! A shadow without a body and yet it could grab people! This horrifying thing was the Crawling Profile! A monster of the worst kind that could summon forth the voice of anyone to bring someone into the abandoned city that was its lair!
Dragging Balor into the shadows, it seemed like the Crawling Profile would be victorious until Balor struck the monster with his namesake's sword and severed the hands of the Crawling Profile!
Standing up, Balor watched as the hands of the Crawling Profile grew back.
And it was at that point that Balor gave the Crawling Profile a gift… Generously he slashed into the monster's head… Never more would that creature live… It was destroyed, dead, gone!
Looking at the sword of his namesake, Balor felt a newfound respect for the Sword of Omens. This was like that sword and yet different. Who made this?