Zaggar takes the death of the dark elf and the others leaving as his hint to leave too as he has some business to attend.
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"What I hear, you pay in gold, blood and with your soul. None of which I'd voluntarily part from." Zaggar comments. He takes another swig from his mug.
"It's one thing to raid a Hellknight Citadel in Isger, and an impressive thing indeed. But it's something completely different to march an army into Cheliax. That's why they are trying to stir up a rebellion from the inside. Without support in Cheliax, they'd be dead ten miles into the country." Zaggar tells his judgement. "Queen Abrogail II would let all hell loose onto them. Literally." he adds jokingly.
Zaggar sits down, takes another swig from his mug and starts telling the tale. "The Glorious Reclamation was originally founded for one purpose: the recovery of Heart’s Edge, the sword once wielded by Iomedae herself. The Hellknight Order of the Godclaw had discovered the fabled blade, forgotten and lost for centuries, quite by accident, but since these Hellknights venerate Iomedae as one of their five-part pantheon of law called the Godclaw, Lictor Resarc Ountor proudly proclaimed the acquisition of Iomedae’s sword as a symbol of his order’s righteousness. Hearing of the reappearance of this sacred relic, the Church of Iomedae politely requested that Heart’s Edge be returned to them. The Order of the Godclaw brusquely refused. The fate of the holy sword might have become a matter of peaceful diplomatic negotiation between the church and the order, had not a zealous paladin of Iomedae named Alexeara Cansellarion decided to take matters into her own hands." "Branding the Hellknights heretics and blasphemers, as their reverence of the Godclaw was not in line with the traditional teachings of the Church of Iomedae, Alexeara issued a call to the Inheritor’s faithful to reclaim Heart’s Edge. Hundreds of knights and clerics from Andoran, Cheliax, Molthune, and beyond took up arms and marched on Citadel Dinyar, home to the Order of the Godclaw. After a furious battle, the Iomedaean army defeated the Hellknights and ousted them from their own fortress, and Alexeara Cansellarion claimed Citadel Dinyar and Heart’s Edge as spoils of honorable war. Flushed with success, the fervent paladin now turned her eyes to a far greater prize." "Before her ascension, Iomedae herself had been Chelish as well, and to Alexeara, a Thrune-dominated Cheliax was an affront to the Inheritor. With possession of Citadel Dinyar and Heart’s Edge in hand, Alexeara was filled with divine purpose. She announced the creation of a new knightly order dedicated to Iomedae called the Glorious Reclamation, whose sacred charge was to purge Cheliax of its diabolical taint by overthrowing the Thrice-Damned House of Thrune and returning Iomedae’s faith to the goddess’s homeland."
"Along the way to Longacre, I passed close to Citadel Dinyar and saw that Iomedaean knights had driven out the Hellknight Order of the Godclaw from their citadel. And I know quite some information about the 'Glorious Reclamation' if you want to hear it." Zaggar offers.
Zaggar the hobgoblin gets up with his mug and comes over to the table of Moira and her undead crew. "Do you have a seat at your table for me? You told me I owe you one and I want to pay that back." From the look of it, Zaggar is used to worse company than a few undead. |