A God and his God-Touched

Chapter Four: Black Fire

     A fire which does not glow, a fire black as night, a fire filled with hatred of all things divine. That is what the Order of the Dark Fire stands for. They do not worship gods, they believe that only humans are deserving of the throne.

     Keba was the leader of the order, a former Blind Eye Knight. Her dirty blonde hair always hidden under a helmet. She was the human who killed Zior, with just a single spell no less.

     "Ma'am, we've received word that Ad'ma has survived and Joel has died." One of her servants informed, kneeling at her feet.

     "I figured as much, Joel was weak, after casting the spell, and missing it too, he was probably too weak to escape. Poor boy." Keba shook her head solemnly, "I simply can't rely on spies to do the dirty work. But no matter! You may leave, I must think now."

     "Yes, Ma'am." The servant stood and. Bowed before leaving her personal quarters.

     "So, Ad'ma has become unstable, hm? That certainly complicates matters. I suppose that means the Order will change targets." Keba sighed, Ad'ma being unstable would mess with her plans, none of her spies would be able to deal with him, it would be too dangerous to focus him.

     Meanwhile in Zédel, Tay'la was in his own archives, not nearly as sophisticated as Ad'ma's, but still containing various divine books.

     He was reading about the current state of his own kingdom, having not ruled it in many years left him with zero clue what was going on. "When did we have a war with Corcia?" He asked himself aloud. He swears he could hear his father calling him a disappointment for being so incapable that as a god of WAR he didn't even know his own people were fought one.

     The current happenings of Lanya are even worse, and Zior would be even more disappointed in Ad'ma, who was having an inspection on every Knowing Hand Mage in the kingdom, he had to make sure NONE had eyes. For they had divine knowledge, but for a mortal that comes with a price, vision of the divine for vision of the world. The search produced nothing of use, not a single mage had eyes and Ad'ma couldn't tell if anyone was lying about their loyalty. And things could only go down from there.