[RPG] Nighthelm's Dungeon

[Chuong Huynh]

Visit   (8 hours, 34 minutes ago)
While you rot in your cell, Lady Celina Stormreaver, Arch Priestess of
Nighthelm, Duchess of Hatdhes, visits you and says:

Having not gotten a report from her guards about the peasant from the
Tectum, Celina decided to check on the progress of his 'treatments' herself.
Entering the dim-lit dungeon room, she noted the unconcious man on the table
and shook her head slightly. Glancing at the guards, she asks a question to
an answer she likely already knows."Didn't admit the Tectum is no more?
Perhaps we should have Scion come down here and tell him himself... he is
still around, is he not?"The guard isn't sure what to say to the leading
questions but simply nods and bows.Rolling her eyes, Celina glances sidesway
to an array of 'devices' on the wall. Settling on a whip, she moves to pick
it up and motions to one of the walls with shackles."Strap him to the wall
and wake him up, let's see if I can't get some sense into him.", she muses.
"Then again, I do rather enjoy taking our the frustration of the realm on
those who still believe in Laura's little melodrama."As the guards shackles
Gwaethinriel to the wall and give him a solid slap to wake him, Celina
uncoils the whip and stretches. "All you have to do is repent and deny the
Tectum exists any longer and that they were wrong, and all this can
stop..."Reaching back, Celina snaps her wrist, sending the whip across
Gwaethinriel's back; leaving a bleeding line and drawing a scream of pain
from the man."This could be a very long day...", she chuckles as she winds
up for another lash.


She couldnt help shake the image of Celina's smirk from the night previous,
such a devilish expression on an angelic visage. She had seen that before.
She thought hard but her past was still a blank to her. This was not the
first time she had been tortured or beaten, infact it had happened numerous
times before for reasons unknown. She had lost all faith in nobility,
claiming to be honourable yet they decay so quickly when out of the public
eye.

"Didn't admit the Tectum is no more?" is that the simple reason? Beaten in
Antoza for being a Cathay commoner, Arrested in Hatdhes for being a
Nighthelm commoner, Threatened with torture until she converted to Tectum.
Now she was being tortured for not wanting to be tortured in the first
place. Nobility, so fickle in their motives. To think that she may be
associated with them, she was glad she couldn't remember her past. But with
each encounter, the mysts grew clearer. The hatred grew within her. That
smirk, it was her own, her reflection rather in a bloodied basin. Was she
really like them before? no she couldn't have been, but oh how she wanted
that kind of power.

"My Lady, I originate from Hatdhes. We commoners belong to the region and
the region now flys a Nighthelm banner. I am a commoner of Nighthelm."
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