Follow me into the Darkness.

[Nayala Palain]

The Sith Master of The Sith Order smiled as the souls of her boots hit the ground. With each little step she took on the high polished granet floor clicked.

Her cloak whipped behind her as she took the last step to the twin doors. The grand Parlor was ineed grand. High celings were breath taking. The pictures that adorned the walls older then half the people alive in the galaxy. The Sith Master had been here before. Long before...

The Darkness of her aura sung into the heart or lack of heart of each of the members here at the Shrine. Silently calling to each of them. Like a whisper Come to me....come to me... Follow me into the darkness.

[Lord Soth]

He watched her with eye's that told her story before spoken. The Sith woman's stride was stately, confident as she pressed towards the who watched intently.

It had been some time since Lady Black had trod the sacred halls of the Damned, nevertheless, the seductress foot fall was a comforting sound to the silhouetted figure ears that stood only paces from her as she approached.

"Your presence was missed Athena,..." said a smooth voice from the shadowy recess of an alcove.

As she turned abruptly to face were the familiar voice admitted from; trying to adjust her eye's to the shrouding darkness about the hall, the same erie voice spoke again...This time from behind her. A delicate, cold touch caressed her bare shoulder,...One of death and despair.

"I am honored m'lady...May I be so bold to ask,...What brings you to the house of the Damned?" Athena could feel Soth breath upon her neck as he spoke in low tone's...

[Nayala Palain]

It was simple, or well to her it was. She was there just to see who all was still one of the Damned. It ineed had been a long time since she paced the halls.

The Darkness shifted befor her eyes. Indeed the speed of the Vampy was quick just as if one was moving within force accelerated speed. She heard the voice and felt the cold dark touch of Soth on her skin.


" I have come to be enchanted, to learn, but more to see. Who all walks with the Damned. "

[Vampyre Dalamar]

Dalamar heard the call it was barely a whisper. Still the Dark Lord of the Shrine heard it clearly. " Come to me....come to me... Follow me into the darkness."

Rising out of the blood pool deep in the bowels of the Shrine the Warlord dressed. Belting his silver worked swords to his back he left the room. Striding down the hall he was anxious to meet Lady Athena. He had only met her once briefly. Walking past grand Friezes of Vampyre victories and rare Sea Folk Porcelain he rounded the corner.

He was stunned to say the least her beauty had only grown since last he seen her. Soth had arrived first his words still echoed.

"I am honored m'lady...May I be so bold to ask,...What brings you to the house of the Damned?"

Moving with smooth vampyre grace Dalamar moved out of the shadows so he could be seen. He waited until the Master Vampyre had finished his pleasantries before exchanging his own. Dalamar nodded to her in greeting. But still he waited along with Soth to see why she had come. Though she was always welcome she seemed to have a sense of urgency about her this time.....

" I have come to be enchanted, to learn, but more to see. Who all walks with the Damned. "

[Lord Soth]

Soth folded his pale hands within the long sleeve's of his soft black robes as she turned to face him. A seductive smile stole across his porcelain face as their eyes met. She knew their kindred kind well,...Well enough to know she was quite safe and respected as much.

"We have many that have wandered into our rank's Lady Athena...Our Coven has grown considerably since your last visit." Replied the Death Knight coolly, his mesmerizing gaze never leaving hers.

"As to your inquiry for knowledge,...The doors to the library are always open to you...Perhaps we can escort you there." Soth's let his eye's trail over to were Dalamar stood.

[Nayala Palain]

She watched him, she always had. Soth the Death Knight. He was so interesting to her. Something about him, something she had yet not figured out. Then there was Dalamar the Warlord of the Vampyre.... Speechless was what she was.


Athena removed from her pocket a stone. It almost matched the Roon Stone the Shrine owned.


" What is this? "

[Lord Soth]

Soth's hand gently grazed over Athena's as he reached for the glistening stone. A curtain power emanated from it countless facet's. The exquisite jewel was set in an unknown metal that laced around its circumference. However the sturdy chain that adorned the amulet was of a different make and origin to the talisman's craftsmanship.

"If I may...M'lady." Soth questioned softly before Athena graciously relinquished it to his care.

After a belief moment in time, the Death Knight retuned the necklace back to woman after carefully studying it. His eternal gaze slipped from the stone then to Athena.

"Why,...This would be what some call a Talisman of Power...A Sith Amulet to be precise." Soth replied coolly, slipping his pale hands into the sleeves of his black robe.

"If I may be so bold to ask Athena...Were did you come across such a rare and precious treasure?"

[Nayala Palain]

She replaced the Stone into her pocket. And thought about it.

" A Sith Amulet, interesting... I found this Talisman in a dream. I saw it and went into the flooding waters of MoniCalimar to find it. Then as if I had been there, the necklace was sitting on my nightstand the next sun rise. "

Athena removed the Amulet once more and placed it around her neck. It shined once in a top to bottom fashion.


" What all do you know of these Soth? "

[Vampyre Dalamar]

Dalamar had kept quite during there conversation. But in his mind he was troubled. Some one was playing with Athena maybe one of there own kind. First an illusion of the mind then the illusion given reallity on the nightstand. A sith amulet? But who or what would they have to gain? They knew that Athena was under there protection if she needed it. So the question came back was it one of there kind and why would he bait the Shrine?

The Warlord remained silent his expertise was not in the art illusion as Soth's was. Also the Warlord had great respect for Soth in matters of millitary genius he excedded even Dalamar on some points.

He knew the quick mind of the Death Knight. He would have already ran all these thoughts through his mind. He was only questioning Lady Athena to acertain what information could be gleaned from her.

Hands behind his back the Warlord was lost in thought. Who could be playing these game's I know Hera and the Shadowfeine are dabbling but they have not have the expertise to pull off so advanced an illusion. Chrichton also seeks us but this kind of mind games are beneath him. The Slithe.... No Master Logoth has faded into the shadows we have not seen him in quite a while. Gerbo? Dalamar had to laugh at that name he always thought with the hair on his chest and could not mastermind his way out of a cave. Still the Warlord had been suprised before....

[Lord Soth]

Soth listened intently to Athena's detailed description of the strange dream she had prior to her visit to the Shrine. Indeed, there was something more intriguing to this story then met the eye.

" A Sith Amulet, interesting... I found this Talisman in a dream. I saw it and went into the flooding waters of MoniCalimar to find it. Then as if I had been there, the necklace was sitting on my night stand the next sun rise. "

The Death Knight arched a brow as Athena finished her sentence. His gaze trailed over to Dalamar then back to hers.

"Fascinating,...To say the least." Soth replied as he took a small step past Dalamar and Lady Athena, bidding them to walk with him down the mammoth arched hallway that stretched into darkness beyond them. Colorful and rare tapestries along with other ancient artifact's neatly lined the walls and small alcoves as they past them in conversation.

"There are a great many thing's I can tell you about them m'lady...However, this particular amulet that you now posses harbor's multiple power's within it...Perhaps a closer examination of its makeup and composition will revile exactly what I speak of." Soth word's were low and silky as he glanced to her, their foot fall echoing down the Grand Hall as they continued on.

[Nayala Palain]

Looking towards the warlord of the Shrine then back to the Death Knight she knew some of the thoughts the two had. Indeed she did know the protection she could get here from the Shrine. But she was within a powerful order of her own. The Sith Order. With powerful Mistress's and Masters.

" I am skilled within the Art of Sith Illusions and I can see none of them here. I rest within the 3 level of the Orders halls. I have no known risks or reasons for a person to enter my chambers. Plus I over looked the tapes that cover my room. There was nothing. "

Athena followed silently along the halls. She walked just a step behind Soth and a step infront of Dalamar.

" So where do we go to take a closer look? "

[Alana Stormcloud]

Alana strode down the hall, her long legs flashing in and out of the slit in her dress. She could feel a familiar presence, one she had not felt in a very long time. One she had missed. The Sith vampyre had come to care for the Lady Athena, as much as she cared for her Shrine family. The fact the she graced the halls of the damned Pleased her immensely.

She spotted them far ahead, and increased her speed, Soth and Dalamar encircled her. A look of concern filled both of there faces.

As she reached them, a smile tilted the corner of her full lips. "Lady Athena, dark sister, It has been far too long."

[Lord Soth]

Soth paused as Athena finished her sentence. A look of concern played on his marble feature's as he turned to her, his piercing blue eye's shimmered in the torch light of the Grand Hall as he spoke.

"I assure you Lady Athena, the dream's you speak of is no illusion...The dream's we dream are a direct reflection of the reality we live in...Your encounter with this amulet was not by chance, nor was it planted by any other...It found you." Soth eye's carried a tone seriousness within them that Athena could easily read, his cryptic word's captured her attention immediately as he finished. She knew Soth to be a master of both Dream's and Illusion's alike...However, his comment about the Amulet finding her puzzled her. How was this possible?...Was the stirring question in her open mind...

[Nayala Palain]

Athena smiled when she saw Alana. Her Dark sister in the force and once commrade.

" Hello Alana..."

She still stood there in deep thought.

" Soth, I know you are the keeper of dreams and Illusions, but I still dont understand it all. "

[Lord Soth]

Soth's turned his head slightly to Athena as the group continued down the massive hall way to the Grand Parlor. A subtle smile crept across his handsome face, adding an element of suspense to the question she asked of him.

"The amulet is bound to you and you alone m'lady...Perhaps a family heirloom, something that someone wishes you to have...A rare gift, destine to you nonetheless," Soth paused in his word's for a moment then continued.

"You must find out its purpose, how to control it fully and make it bend to your will...There will be word's of command that will activate the harbored power's within it Athena. Powers that only you can posses." The Death Knight glanced to Athena as the party rounded a pillared corner of the Great Hall, his tone became low as he finished.

"The relic bares your name m'lady...Its inscription is of an old tongue, one that has died out over fifteen hundred years ago...Can you recall ever seeing it's likeness in your family linage,...Perhaps in a painting or an old tome that belonged to your ancestors?" Soth finished as they entered the arch way that led into the Parlor's sitting chamber.

[Nayala Palain]

She thought about it and it puzzled her.

" Lord Soth, you know I dont know anything or well much of my family. I was taken as a child and raised as a Sith my family hales from Balmorra. Just like my cousin Taylor Millard "

[Vampyre Dalamar]

"Maybe this Taylor Millard could be of assistance?" The Warlord intoned. "His knowledge of your family and past may help you catch a piece of the puzzle that you have missed. If it is convenient you should call on him and ask for his assistance in this matter." Dalamar paused for a moment. "If the truth of your past can be found out I suggest strongly that you do so. I myself have also recently found out about mysteries in my past. This gem and its meaning will haunt you for the rest of your life if you do not seek out the answers. Take my word Mi'lady search out the truth of your visions. Find the answers that will give you peace or you will alway's wonder."

With that the Warlord saluted his gauntleted fist to chest. "I wish you well in your endeavor but I must apologize. Pressing Shrine buisness calls me away. I'm sure you will fare well in the capable hands of Lord Soth and Lady Alana. May you be in heaven a week before Lady Death knows your dead..... I wish you luck..... With those words Dalamar stepped back into the shadows his black Ebony Armor blending with the Darkness until like a whisper he was gone.

[Nayala Palain]

Athena looked at the Warlord as he deaparted.. indeed maybe Taylor could be of some assistance in the matter. But they had not spoken in so long.
She looked back to Soth and Alana...

" So now what my friends of the night? "