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Hidden in the bowels of Night Keep in the early days of Grobb
lay a tunnel leading to a small cave. No torches donned the walls of this place
and a small wooden altar was the only object within.
Those initiated into the order of shadowknights in Night Keep
knew this place as The Eyes of Cazic. It was here that the Warlord Grimgash,
after he and the Warlord Jurglash completed their clan's victory over the
residents of Innothule swamp came to give thanks to Cazic Thule for their
dominance. After three days of disciplined meditation in this chamber with
neither food nor drink Grimgash received a vision from the Lord of Fear. Through
his mind he foresaw a great order of disciplined troll warriors mixing their
natural fighting skills with the dark powers of Cazic Thule, spreading terror
throughout the swamps of Innothule and beyond. Grimgash ordered a keep built
around the cave. Thus began the order now called the Shadowknights of Night
Keep. The newly initiated troll shadowknights under Warlord Grimgash were sent
into this cavern to receive a vision from Cazic Thule thus setting the path of
their destiny. Through the guidance of the visions granted by The Eyes of Cazic
Thule, the shadowknights of Night Keep led several successful campaigns against
the Frogloks of Guk. The eyes revealed to Cazic's faithful trolls the hiding
places of the Frogloks and the Froglok advances on Grobb before they came to
pass.
As the years passed and the swamps rose beneath Grobb, water
and sludge began to swallow The Eyes of Cazic Thule. The shadowknights of Night
Keep tried to keep the swamp at bay but eventually the cavern became submerged
beneath Grobb, The Eyes of Cazic Thule lost to the new generations of
Shadowknights. Without the influence of The Eyes of Cazic Thule, the Teir'dal of
Neriak found it easier to persuade young trolls into the service of Innoruuk,
and Night Keep became an army divided between two Gods. It is whispered in the
shadows of Night Keep that should one of Cazics faithful reach The Eyes of Cazic
Thule beneath the waters and sludge of the swamp and survive, they shall become
the mightiest of all shadowknights and shall lead Grobb in victories
unparalleled by the great warlords of days gone by. |
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