<div class="floatright">(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/legendology_dnd_article12_picMain_en.jpg)</div>The worm beast's face remains impassive, but it's voice is as harsh as the winds that surround you.<br/><br/>"Have you ever seen the world around you collapse, Minotaur? Everything you devoted you life to, swept away in an instant? I did, as did Aaq. Our God, the Father of Worms, was slain in his moment of triumph by mortals. The power to whom I'd devoted everything was torn away from me, the comfort and might that he gave me evaporating in an instant."<br/><br/>"Even though he was gone, my faith stayed strong. But this Faction, the Athar, they deny divinities have true power! They met their moments of crisis and allowed themselves to waiver. It is an insult to all those who have face a time of crisis and stayed strong, regardless of faith, regardless of alignment, to allow them to live. I have been reduced to a shadow of my former glory, I have been driven by the madness of this plane to worship a pile of meaningless dust, and I am doublely cursed to be fully aware of my madness in doing so! Then, this woman, who says she also saw Kyuss die, and will see us die too, has the audacity to attack and further profane our Lord's name with her foul ideology!"<br/><br/>"That, I will not tolerate. Should I wish to show her compassion, I could withdraw my curse in an instant. That is true power. To have your foes in your grip and just slowly squeeze. This is a slow, and very intentional, act of murder. She will feel her soul and body being eaten away around her, and she will know that she will rise again as a child of the God she saw die and hates so. You ask to give her a swift death and you are asking to deny me what little pleasure I gain from this foul existence, as well as another ally in my cause."<br/><br/>"I would not give either up for something as paltry as you piece of mind."<br/><br/>"Unless you have anything to say that is actually worth hearing, you may pass through my territory, provided you take no aggressive action towards me nor mine."