The winds blew freely between the spiralling trees and the down the winding rivers of this new world. It had been many hundreds of years since the Lord Drethes had usurped power on the Island kingdom and since then his empire has expanded to include this new world, this small settlement of Galavon which would bring new hope to the empire and new oppurtunities...

A dark cloud hovered over the southern hills some miles from the city, rain clouds that many would not see as an ill omen, though if any knew who they where about to greet into their city they may say otherwise. A Black clad figure stood tall atop the hills, his ruined black robes blew freely in the wind and about his spectral form as he extended an almost ghost like hand to point off toward the city, he then uttered a few words in a slow deathly voice "This city is the new bastion of my enemy..." A man stood beside him dressed in simple clothing and bearing a short blade at his side, he did not seem to fear the unearthly creature beside him but simply spoke "What is your bidding master?"

The spectral beast turned to the far shorter creature as his form seemed to shift, the black robes faded and the thin spectral form shifted until he seemed almost human, though pale and with dark eyes and snow white hair. He was now garbed in black clothing as he looked to the man beside him and spoke in a now more human voice, though not perfect "We go to the city, and we hunt our enemy..." The man nodded and knelt before his master before he spoke "As you bid, Master Karthaw..."