A Secret Meeting

Many years ago, when fazaraths ruled the air and threatened those on the ground, a young blacksmith arose from the depths of society and gathered to himself an army. This army he led into many battles and finally engaged in one final battle to end the long war that was known as the war between Heaven and Earth. He and his men smote the fierce creatures, found their nests, and took their eggs. When the eggs hatched, the men trained the young fazaraths and rode them into battle as a secret force from the sky. For many centuries, these beasts served man. And then a man, a soldier, a protector of Azarathia turned his back on his country and changed the world. With a fazarath of his own, a large black beast with ferocious claws and a bloodthirsty eye, he gathered all sorts to him. With a newer and more evil threat in the world, the lords of the four kingdoms came together in a secret meeting within a secret chamber and vowed to slay their common enemy.

It was this very chamber where the king and queen of Azarathia met with Seoden, son of Ecalar. It was a large room with an equally large table placed in the center. The table was decorated with a carving of the finding of the great Gem of Gorthea Dunea. The walls were painted deep red and there was a great purple curtain that covered the only entrance. There were no windows but murals. Murals of great events in the history of Azarathia; wars, famines, births, deaths, marriages. Many things covered the walls of this ancient room.

Seoden followed the two rulers into this secret room and sat at the end of the great table. Silence enveloped the room. Finally the stranger spoke, "Sharfteh is on the move".