Garthalan: Mother of the Wood

A Corrupted Magic

Adaya pov

I attempted to get loose but the straps on the chair were too tight for me to slip out. There was a group of scholarly looking men surrounding the posh one. They were chanting somthing I did not understand just as a group of witches would stand around a brewing pot in mothers old stories.

After a few hours of this the posh one stepped out from the group. He held a bracelet. It looked rather uncomfortable and not nearly as flashy as the rest of the castles jewelry, he moved towards me and began speaking. "I think it is time we put your powers to good use knife ear. Remember the less you resist the less nightmares there will be. It is the will of the gods that has brought you to us, which means you will be of little difficulty in the precesions."

I tried again to slip from my bonds, unsuccessfully. The man grabbed my hand and clicked the bracelet on. The world around me seeped to darkness, not like when you fall asleep or are hit in the head, I could see tendrils envelope the light around me. It was as though I was being pulled down by some creature of darkness.

Garen pov

I became irritated with the lock and just rammed the shaft in it. It opened.
Then the dungeon doors did as well. I pushed against the bars to keep it shut untill they got closer.

It was the mages, they were bringing Adaya back. " Do you think she'll resist?" One of the men asked no one in particular.

"Of course she will were making her do something she doesnt want to do. And the king wants her aware of it as well. I know I would."

"hold up guys, we need a talk." The first one spoke again all the mages paused and I slipped to the side of the cell. Obviously they don't know I'm here.

"what is it Kallion? we don't have long here." Kallion? The warden? He's no mage.

"I think the archmage needs to go. I mean look at what he's doing here. I thought when I came here that I would be doing good for the capitol, but this corruption, it's not actually helping anything but the war agenda of the king."

"Your speaking blasphemy recruit."

"Damn right I am. When's the last time you walked the city streets? I saw a noble grab a young peasant girl from her mother and drag her into the brothel. The king will do nothing about it because he is a puppet of the archmage. Did you not notice that he wore one of those bracelets as well? We have to do something, else we will all be killed or the world will be enslaved and run by the vile man you call master."

Wow now I see how they seed the chaos into the ranks. Now the other mages will probably question every move of this archmage, and the king. I wonder if the others are doing the same?

Helena pov

We had expected to find longstrider in the woods, Gretha was set in the fact that he would help.in the attack. However all we found were order members patrolling the woods now.

Still we have two other armies at out backs. The dwarves, and Renoir Valley dark elves. They had no intention of joining us but I explained to them who Adaya was and what had happened. They followed pretty quickly after that. Apparently they were still furious about the Dales being salted.

I now traveled with Commander Gretha, Zaine who was the most highly regarded commander of the dark elves, and Krevis, the hand to the king of the dwarves. We were checking the wall for any entry point. We had also sent a couple of the remaining wardens into the city to look for ways from there as well. There was nothing out here. Those walls are too solid to climb and we do not have the contraptions they used. Which I wouldn't allow anyways. It would kill the other people inside as well as order and I dont want to kill someone who wouldn't try to kill me or my friends.

"Oy lassie, you alright?" Krevis walked beside me. Rather loudly.

"I'm fine. Just trying to think of a way in."

"Remember tiny elf, there is always a way to impregnate any fortress, there may be a back way, or even an unbarred storm drain. But there's always a way." Zaines voice rumbled with a deeper tone than I'm used to, from anyone.

" Did you just call me tiny?" I wasn't mad I'm just not used to dark elf compliments and insults yet. I never know which is which.

"I called you tiny elf. It means you may be small but you have the heart of our kind. A compliment as you would say." I almost blushed. But still I'm pretty tall among my own people, he's just a friggin giant.

"Is there anyone that isn't tiny to you?" Gretha cut in now.

"Qun are not tiny."

"aye, I'll agree to that they're taller than you lads for sure." Krevis added.

" And yet, I can tear their horns of with flip of my wrist." Gruesome much Zaine?

Shey pov

"I will get word to the others, we are meeting tonight. Just ensure everyone's ready to storm the castle." There is a side gate that was lightly guarded, I and the other wardens plus a couple recruits from longstriders band had been meeting close by it every couple of nights to get updates on everyone's progress. So far it was great. Kallion was working the mages over today, I had already convinced half the gaurd that their commander was a dishonorable man, the order believed it as they were told of a curse on gretha that made it so any man who kills him would love out their days in pain. And that's just a few examples of what we'd done. Give it till tonight and the gaurd will be at war with itself.

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Ok so two comments on the chapter I asked for some on. One was just correcting me on stuff, that leaves one person who really likes my story. So thank you festusw for the support.

Now, I need your feedback on somthing else. Garthalan is actually a large place and there are a lot of different places in it. Adaya is only fighting in a small part of it so I need a name for the state/section she's in, any recommendations? Also too I'm probably gonna change the name of the story to narrow down where they're at so I'd like to know your thoughts on that as well.

Thank you all for reading, voting, commenting, and even the occasional pm. I still plan to go back and fix the story when it's done so have no worries of grammer mistakes, they will be fixed. Any other probs, like something you dont understand feel free to ask about it.