G’Kar points at Gwynn, faces the dwarves and shouts,
“Even though she is a human, she has fought bravely on the side of
Clangeddin to defeat His enemies! Behold, the temple was overrun with
Banites, but we have scourged the last of their disease from
Clangeddin’s Most Holy Temple.” He gestures around, including the entire
party. “These are my friends, and are to be reveared as holy since they
have aided in the cleansing of the temple, even the doing the will of
Clangeddin.”
“Stay your hammers and your anvils. Stop the shipments of arms and men
and pause to realize just who you have been working for these long
months, for we as righteous dwarves of Stormaxe have been greatly
deceived by wickedness and evil. Our people have been sent forward to
slaughter our friends and have fought alongside our enemies. Whenever a
fight turns against us, our Banite comrades in arms have turned and fled
like the cowards they are, leaving our brethren to be slaughtered alone.
SO MANY DISHONORABLE DEATHS, UNWORTHY OF THE RIGHTEOUS
FOLLOWERS OF CLANGEDDIN!!!”
“Our great High Priest Thorar Silverhand has been captured and I believe
murdered. He was tricked by those he believed were his allies. He lies
perhaps dead in an Abysal plane, where the very walls of their caves are
made of vile living flesh. Our armies have been marching and doing the
will of Bane, not the will of Clangeddin nor of Moradin. We have marched
alongside the enemy, who has stabbed us in the back in the eleventh
hour, even as we realized we have been deceived.”
“We must mobilize not against Tethyr, but against Amn instead. We must
now atone for shedding the blood of our friends, even though they may be
human, by shedding the blood of the enemy in turn. Clangeddin requires
that we right these wrongs; only then can we cross the great river after
death and take our place on the Holy Battlefields of the Great Beyond.
We must call our brothers in other dwarven cities. We must contact our
Elven allies. We must stop the war on the Good and Honorable Humans of
Tethyr–yes, I said Good and Honorable Humans! They do exist, and I have
fought alongside many”, he gestures to Gwynn.
“And maybe we may not care what happens to humans or elves, since we are
disinterested in the affairs of other races. But we have seen what
happens when we turn away and keep to ourselves. Wyrms invade and
terrorize our caves, and that is only the beginning. Behold, even our
great temple has been defiled. A room the shape of the Hand of Bane has
been constructed here in the temple, under our very noses! Bane will
stop at nothing. He will not leave our caves alone nor will he cease
infultrating our cities. He has planted spies amongst us. He has set
brother against brother. His reign over dwarven kind must come to an
end. And it begins TODAY!
“Join me now and fight the Most Holy Fight! I summon all priests and
warriors to my table to join my council. We go forth now and rid the
land of Banite deceit, treachery and evil.!”