The icy winds gripped their talons tightly into the elven warrior trudging through the thick blankets of white, as blinding as the Light itself. Her ears, nose and fingers had gone numb. Her wounds bled fiercely from her prievous encounter with a minotaur and was on the verge of collapse. Fleeing from the sting of the creatures weapon was not taken well on the warrior's pride, but it was neccessary, she needed to rest, for she had been on the desolete chuck of ice for too long now.

Focusing in mind, body, and spirit, the now invisible Ka'vanth calls upon divine intervention of her goddess to return her to the Dark City of Verminasia. Opening her eyes she cast a weak smile at the familiar sight of the gigantic cobra poised protectively before the black pillars of the temple entrance. The drastic temperature change from the mystical voyage of deliverence so graciously granted had called for thanks to Drakkara, the deity of dark magick.

On the way to the shrine garden to her goddess just southeast of the Southern Gates of Verminasia, a courier runs up to the woman, bowing deeply.

'Cyrian Ka'vanth, ' he stated with confidence, 'Your family sends word. '

Smiling briefly at the couriers curtious gesture of greetings from the young elven man, she took the parchment and began to read. Her face flushed with disbelief, thanked the young man hastily and tossed him a few gold coins. Cyrian ran into the temple and made herself visable to the naked eye, kneeling before the statue of Drakkara in the garden. Sobbing silent prayers for her family, the battered woman's stark white mane stained with crimson danced in her tears.

'How could the Shalonest defile Your temple with their tainted good intentions? ' she said to the statue before her, 'The Matron is with child! Drakkara I beg you assist Matron Ursah through this catastrophy. Show our cousins who exiled us from our home so long ago Your strength. '

She whispered, 'Deliver our Matron from her captures and allow us Your strength to strike our enemies deep enough for them to remember their folly. Amen. '