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The Chapel of the Crimson Flame stands, smoke-stained and decrepit, in the shadow of hills to which the village of New Avalon gave its back. Its once glorious stained glass windows are all broken, bright shards littering a wood-planked floor slowly succumbing to the ravages of damp and the native toxicity of the Plaguelands air; the defiant golden sunburst that once surmounted its steeple-spire lies shattered into thousands of pieces in the courtyard below; its peaked and gabled roof sags in more than one place, the walls and floor below besmirched in mold and seepage stains. Parchment pages, torn from the books that made up the Scarlet Crusade's unholy catechism, lay scattered among the shards of glass, the pieces of fallen and rotting benches, the lectern still standing at the head of the main sanctuary almost perversely untouched, a book still open across its slanted surface. A sinkle rusty stain marks this spot on the map.

Outside, the trees are dying in a half circle around the mounds of upturned soil that marked where the Scarlet Crusade interred the corpses of tortured and murdered knights of the Argent Dawn, the building where they were held little more than a stone slab covered in ash ankle deep. Three drops of Foehand's blood fell here, in a loose triangle.


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Folami has, perhaps, had a glance of Keldris's map and is decidedly NOT eager to uncover more fragments, especially not here. Yet, she knows they must try to recover everything they can because even the most horrific of memories are a piece of Solivar and are what formed him into who he became. Still no one in his or her right mind would be willing to delve further into this nightmare unless it was absolutely necessary.

She thinks of the conversations she's had with Twinyarrow, of how he speaks of his brother. Looking at Keldris and knowing at least his love for Solivar if not Solivar's for him, she knows it is necessary.

"Like tearing off a bandage," she murmurs mostly to herself. "A little sting followed by relief, just in this case the sting potentially lasts for days, perhaps weeks. But in the end it will be worth it to restore him."

You don't know that you can, whispers a little voice in the back of her mind. There is no promise this will ultimately work, or that if it does it will result in a desired effect. And truly, should it work, do you know if you'll ever forget the faces of those children? Human or sin'dorei, they were still defenseless, innocent children.

Swallowing back the bile threatening to rise in her throat, Folami seeks the others to prepare for another round of psychological torture. We still have to try.


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"The earth here is poisoned, many times over." Jarrand Windspeaker mutters to himself and to any that might be listening. Dusting his hands, he lets the sodden soil fall to the ground as he stands up, noticing the return of the warlock to the group.

"So, we are to follow the map to the next treasure trove of suffering and pain? You look in no greater rush than I in this matter. But, water always flows downstream and we have little choice in this matter, only when it is that we are to cascade over the waterfall."


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"And fall to the jagged rocks waiting below?" Folami does try to inject some humor into the question, though trepidation runs underneath.

She shakes her head. "I don't think any of us would be here were it not a requisite to completing our task." A pause. "Do you think this land will ever be truly cleansed? I know Ismial put spirits to rest, but...one priest against so much evil is not much. Everyone seems to treat this place as some sort of profane graveyard."


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"I've talked about palettes with regard to our brother's soul. I think the land here is not so much covered in paint, but stained in ink. Stains may fade, but I think even the most ardent of washing will only dull the color. But, the suffering the Priest excised is permanent good, just good for the spirits, not for the land."

Jarrand closes his eyes and plants his feet firmly on the ground. "Yes, the spirits here are quiet, ill, and resigned to their fate. Where the cataclysm has shattered the land elsewhere and the spirits there cry out in confusion and pain, here they have no hope. Whatever has been done here has leached out the earth's patience, the fire's passion..." The shaman opens his eyes and focuses back on the present company. "But, they say time heals all wounds; this will take eons."


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"Sounds like what they say about the Scar in Quel'Thalas."

Her lips form a thin line. "Once more into the breech?"


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Having completed his walk through the ruins and caught up with his companions, Ismial pauses in the doorway of the Chapel. His eyes remain bright over the silken veil covering his mouth and nose, but his shoulders have taken on a slump since his departure.

He bows his head in a motion somewhere between a greeting and a gesture of contrition, picking a path through the gleaming shards of glass underfoot. He reaches out to lay a hand on one of the ruined pews, but withdraws it before making contact.

"I shudder to think what memory is anchored to this place."


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"For what it's worth, this place doesn't have many good memories for anyone." Keldris' heavily armored shadow fills the door. "The Ebon Blade was...extremely forthcoming about what they found outside. And we had to build an addition to the crypt at Light's Hope just to hold them all." His mouth is set in a thin, not entirely steady line and his eyes are over-bright in the gloom. "Yarrow? Are you getting anything?"


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Twinyarrow flinches as it suddenly struck. His right eye, gazing off into some unfathomable distance seconds past, turns to peer at Keldris.

"This land is as blighted as surely as The Earthwarder had breathed his corruption up it himself. Sadly, it is in the nature of all of our races to foster with that corruption. " He breathes in deeply sigh and closes his eye, whispering to himself in some tongue.

"There is much of what Solivar was reforged into in this place. It does not do, though the acts he commited while during that time be atrocious beyond comprehension, to hold him to fault. I know Solivar will do so himself. But do none of us strike at the Fel, or the Undead with zeal unbefitting our mortal sensibility? Do we not garner some bit of delight in it? One cannot blame the blade when another's hand wields it. The hatred behind "Mercy's" (he spits out the title.) actions... the rage we feel at them, though couched in Solivar's flesh... remains squarely on the Lich King."

He looks at everyone assembled. "Some of you may feel only my desire to see my brother again behind those words, however... even should we succeed, Solivar will STILL be a Deathknight. He will never be warm of flesh or vital even were he to seek a boon from the Lifebinder herself. But we must ford that river and brave the rapids and falls which come until we have claimed all that there is of him herein."
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Keldris steps inside, wincing slightly at the crunch of glass underfoot. "Well said. But that's not entirely what I meant. Windspeaker -- this is where it happened, right? Where Sunstriker went off the deep end and attacked him?"


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Looking about the room, Jarrand responds "Yes, this is the place. The Paladin had come down with a peculiar madness, or corruption, as it were. The blade was a keen one, cutting both flesh and spirit. Unraveling both. No accident that these two events overlap on this soil."


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"Agreed." Very, very dryly. "The question is...what's the anchor for a memory in here? One of the books? A bit of intact window? A bloodstain? Does anyone...sense anything?"[/i]


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Folami closes her eyes and tries to remember what she felt in Dalaran to see if she feels anything familiar here.


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Darkness flickers at the edge of your vision and with it comes an inward tug, the sensation of being drawn forward against both your will and your better judgment -- you hear the sound of pages turning, and a soft, deep voice underlaid with a resonant, almost metallic echo speaking quietly...


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Almost without thougt, Yarrow reaches up removing the patch hiding his left eye. Inwardly, the realization the "memories" now seem to flow more quickly and from an even greater proximity. A fact he resigns to mention later. For now, he considers why this place... Did Solivar find some sort of peace here? Did he lower his guard? Here amongst those who had excepted him?

He sighs preparing for what may unfoil.
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