The Fall Forseen

The Fall Forseen is the sixty-third entry in the Devourer Saga. It requires level 59.

Dialogue
Agent Smith reports to Ryuusei Cartwright following the death of Epheel...
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''Agent Smith and Ryuusei are standing in front of the Necromancer Fortress. Diviara is in the shadows.''

Agent Smith: Your control is dwindling, General. First your predecessor defected, and now so has Nightbane.

Ryuusei: Dwindling? Is it really?

Agent Smith: It certainly looks that way. Nightbane has killed the spider and has proclaimed he will see The'Galin dead.

Ryuusei: It is a bit late for noble ends for Balius. You know as well as I that seeing The`Galin dead is not possible. Things are as they should be.

Agent Smith: Nightbane killed Epheel and attacked me! You call that as is should be?

Ryuusei: Epheel outlived his usefulness a hundred years ago or more. You seem no worse for his "assault."

Ryuusei: As for Balius, his fate is not tied up in just his feelings for his daughter, but also in his feelings for his son.

Agent Smith: How do you propose you can use Edward against him? It is not as if he will cooperate in that effort.

Ryuusei: Smith, "baby," you of all people should be able to piece it together.

Agent Smith: We let nature take its course by directing the activity of Battleonia?

Ryuusei: Very good. Perhaps you are not as stupid as a Terran after all.

Agent Smith: Do you think that will work?

Ryuusei: I am certain of it. Balius links his nobility with his power. He links his "redemption" with killing The`Galin.

Agent Smith: So he will seek to regain what he has lost to the son. Is that even relevant compared to his other power?

Ryuusei: What matters is that he thinks it is. We will not have to turn the father against the son. Their enmity is ageless.

Agent Smith: Neither Zephyr nor the master will likely approve of such tactics. They consider reform desirable.

Ryuusei: The Terrans have some worth. Their sayings carry wisdom.

Agent Smith: What has that to do with anything?

Ryuusei: What they do not know cannot hurt us.

Agent Smith: You walk a thin line.

Ryuusei: Razor thin, but I know how to play the game.

Agent Smith: So what is my objective at this point?

Ryuusei: Celegra's son. Bring him to me.

Diviara: Amilara... he has returned to Lore? I directly instructed him to remain on Caelestia.

Falerin teleports in

Falerin: Cutting it close, are we Diviara?

Falerin teleports Diviara and himself to K'eld Ner

Diviara: They are targeting my son!

Falerin: Regrettable. What do you plan to do?

Diviara: I can do nothing. Certainly not attack. That is what they want me to do.

Falerin: Indeed.

Diviara: They may have even known I was there and hoped that my actions would alert them to where Amilara is.

Falerin: That potential cannot be ignored. Lord Darin?

Lord Darin: Yes, Loremaster?

Falerin: My recollection is that you are both an expert tactician and a communicant of the Water Lord. Is that correct?

Lord Darin: I do not know that I would say expert... I have some skill.

Falerin: We have no time for false modesty.

Lord Darin: Very well, then. Yes, what you said is true.

Falerin: You will take a group and secure Amilara Celegra before Cartwright and Smith get a chance.

Lord Darin: What of my duties here? King Tralin...

Falerin: ...Will agree with my course. I know the king as well as I knew his father. He will not allow Amilara to fall into enemy hands.

Lord Darin: You knew Draynor directly? I was of the impression--

Falerin: Yes, I knew Draynor, but that's not what I meant. Draynor was human. I meant his biological father.

Lord Darin: I see... Well, either Kithia or Shirian will need to come here to run things in my stead.

Falerin: I will see to it. Diviara, with me.

Lord Darin: Very well.

Fade to black