The journal of Mu'Jid Ab-Al-Qadir of the Brae Shadar

...Fate is a fickle creature, the mage is dead, his neck broken by the fall, his powers will be missed but now we have new allies. A band of heavily armoured warriors calling themselves The Knights of Justice have joined with us. We found them after they had engaged a new enemy, their leader lay dying on the ground his head split open by a great blow from one of the creatures, I have seen such wounds before and they are always fatal. Fortunately for him M'Leanna was at hand, she called upon Mothers power and saved his life. They are a strange bunch, claiming their empire stretches across the land, which is nonsense, and also that Filanstadt is a mere fishing village rather than our great capital city...

...it has been a hard night, the spider creatures have attacked us repeatedly, it seems they are after something from us but I don't know what. We have met a man describing himself as Seer, with his help we have protected a tavern - the creatures walk in Shadow apparently, and can no longer enter...

...we are beset on all sides, a gold skinned race calling themselves the Gore have decided to take exception to our presence here. They hate all who have Power and are repeatedly attacking our number, targeting the mages and priests. Even I was caught by them unawares as they appeared from nowhere before attacking...

...the demon is back again only now he refers to himself as The Lord. I know his help was invaluable against the Nazareem but I do not trust him. Why Mother has chosen to elevate this creature to Godhood I do not know - he made me lay down my sword as we performed the ritual to sever his ties to Demon kind!! Still, She is my God and I must trust her....

...it was a glorious battle! Myself alone against 10 or so spider people. I think I got 4 of them before one got me from behind. The last thing I remember was M'Leanna's body at the tavern door before it all went black. The next thing I knew I was standing below, my head still fuzzy as we were asked to choose between the Light, the Dark and the Powers. The Melkazar was there, as was the Lord and the demon bitch Ayleisha. All were shocked as the Lord announced that the ceremony was to be witnessed by the Nazareem as well. The demon bitch healed my wounds before we declared our allegiances. M'Leanna chose the Light but in all conscience I could not follow her and chose the Dark. The only surprise to me was Bane, I expected him to continue following the Powers but he chose the Dark as well....

...the blow to my head must have rattled me more than I thought. I should have just brought down the earth around them and buried them along with the SpiderQueen. Instead I tried to save them and handed the Sceptre to the Squire Leto to hand over to her...yet it is only now the deed is done that I am told this will unleash her on the universe to destroy it! Maybe all is not lost though, the idea of a creature that wishes to devour all life seems to have inspired our group to co-operate a little more. When I find the rest of the Brae Shadar we will have a mighty foe to defeat, I wonder if she is the first of the Mi-Raal?......

...we have escaped through a portal created by destroying a demon with Maginite but I don't know if this place is any better. Its seems to be a prison world of the Nazareem, could this be the place where Mother is trapped behind the Crystal Barrier? Only time and exploration will tell...

...the Soul Healers are a dangerous foe! They seem to be able to break the link between mages and their demon, I know they can make objects disappear completely! We must be careful...

...it is a strange place, the guards refer to us as if we are here doing the same things everynight and when I tried to grapple with one I went straight though him! Maybe they are ghosts...

...some of our numbers have been chosen to take part in a trial. It is a strange custom. Its seems that the accused is represented by someone else entirely and the accuser doesn't even have to be present! As far as I could tell Bane was talking to defend the man accused of murder whilst squire Leto tried to convince a group of 12 that he did it. It was very confusing, they both seemed to say the man did it yet when the group went away and spoke amongst themselves they decided he hadn't. The whole process took several hours. Our way is better, 2 Brae with swords and the result decided in minutes. Just as I think I am beginning to understand the workings of these people something like this happens...

...M'Leanna has gone mad! Those damn Knights impressed by a few lights are encouraging her too. She thinks she is a goddess, Mother is not pleased, She thinks M'Leanna may be working with the Lord to usurp her. Azrim has had a vision that M'Leanna will be destroyed if we cannot help her. It has not escaped my notice that it is left to me, a follow of Dark, and Azrim, a follower of Power, to try to bring her out of this whilst the followers of Light sit around glorying in their own superiority. If I meet the Lord again I will have a few things to say to Him about the calibre of his followers...

...grave news indeed. The Spiderqueen has destroyed several worlds already and the spider people have been spotted here. We must move fast to get the Lord to Mother so we can free her...

...We have succeeded! The Lord is with Mother now. All we need to do now is get off this place. Mezzig has told us of a portal that we can use to get out but someone must stay behind to close it and prevent the spiders from following us. Gideon, of the Dark, has volunteered...

...each place we move to seems worse than the last! The creatures here can command us. My mind rages against them yet my body obeys their orders. Azrim somehow managed to overcome this this. He is now dead, slain by the minions. Before I could perform the ritual to summon Gideon back to us he arrived with a strange device around his neck. The spider queen had sent him. In return for his life she wanted the squire Leto. Leto agreed but before we could get him back to the portal the device exploded, slaying Gideon and injuring several of our number. On the bright side Tiberius, of the Brae, is here. He has changed somewhat since I last saw him but it is good to know that the Brae Shadar still survive...

...the bitch demoness Ayleisha is here. It seems we are in one of Scarpa's training grounds. He has some sort of barrier here so Ayleisha cannot use her powers. If Scarpa knew she was here then he would destroy her. It is ironical that the one time I could be rid of her forever I cannot act - without her we cannot escape this place...

...things go from bad to worse. Scarpa has a device that can destroy worlds and he plans on sending it back to the prison world to destroy Mother and the Lord. One of our number is convinced that he could disarm it but others want to steal it and send it to destroy the Spider queen. The Gore are here too and want it for themselves. I can see difficult times ahead...

...I have struck a deal with the bitch demon Ayleisha, she has agreed to do one thing I bid her and stick to the spirit of the request in return for Mothers help to get her out of here. I believe she is sincere, she hates this place as much as we do...

...we broke into Scarpa's stronghold and confronted him. We could see his device ready but we were fooled. The device in the stronghold was a fake. He froze us all and left to send the real one through the portal. When we could we gave chase. The device was near the portal being carried by his minions. Scarpa had already left, obviously confident in their abilities. We slew them all and took control of the device. Several of our number began to try to disarm it whilst the rest of us held back wave after wave of Scarpa minions. We were helped by some of the redskins worried about the Gore using it on their planet but they turned on us and tried to take it for themselves. We slew them all too. The device was eventually disarmed but in doing so claimed the life of some of our number. We took it to the shrine of Mother, it should be safe there...

...Scarpa is not happy. Ayleisha told us of a spawning pool where he creates his vile minions. We stole 6 of his eggs as a bargaining tool as he wants them back. His rage was tangible. Sir Kerithar stood up to him and Scarpa destroyed him with a look...

...the redskins are attacking us now. They seem to think we are going to use the device to destroy their world. We have tried to explain but they just attack, it has been a glorious few hours. The Knights of Justice are impressive fighters, as some of their numbers fell it seemed to encourage the others to fight harder. At the end it was only Leto and Sir Morgoth left standing, he was so enraged he cut the enemy in half with just a single blow!...

...We have prevailed. Our mages have been freed from Scarpa's stronghold and we held back wave after wave of the redskins. They have fallen back, as we left through the gates we saw the remains of their camp, they must have numbered in the hundreds but they dare not face us again. For the first time for years we can make our own way in the world.

I have received a note inviting all to attend the 1st Council of Duvonius at Filanstadt. I will go, it could be very interesting...