Valence bit his lip and silently prayed that he was making the right choice.<br/>"So we all know that anyone who breaks the kings rules is devoured by a knight or some such and never heard from again right? Wrong.  A good loyal friend of mine was devoured by that bastard Scorch... No trial no evidence, just plain devoured him one day...Some weeks later I'm standing guard over the mages building... and I see him there in shackles and marching off with a bunch of other prisoners to the mines... I'm talking about the mines that nobody was able to get to because of how dangerous it was... 85% death rate... Well now what I see is, somehow the mage is resurrecting 'criminals' and doing experiments on some and sending the rest off to the mines since he can simply resurrect them.  However that mage is performing some sick kind of experiments... I don't know who knows about what...And I'm honestly pretty scared right now..."