<div class="floatleft">(http://40.media.tumblr.com/6aee0ae9fa3f60b63f4a0b050b5c8ba7/tumblr_mh44xr4Jy91rdy3s5o1_500.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>R'sohn Barada (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=225035.msg11083429#msg11083429)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The dark streets of Florentia City => Hawk HQ<br/><strong>With:</strong>Everyone<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>Everyone<br/><br/>R'sohn follows Cid the twins, he is unfamiliar with the city and so he would unlikely remember any alleys or curves and turns, but he did memorize the entrance and the building which led to the maze. Once underground though he felt bit claustrophobic, not used to such narrow corridors or being underground in general. Lived whole life in outdoors he considers entire experience quite alien, and so his mind did not memorize the route but he memorized the wall of skulls and see how it was manipulated to reveal a far more welcoming area of the Hawk's HQ.<br/><br/>He entered along with others, R'sohn was silent as he did not know anyone in the room and was quite randomly thrown into the lot while at escape. Also others made questions about princess and the situation in the palace.....it sounds very dark, very dark indeed. As refreshments were brought he immediately focused on the juicy bread and cheese.....he grabbed eagerly a bread and cheese and nommed with good appetite, he had his rations but they were very dull to taste buds and so he had been<em>craving</em>for real food.<br/><br/>As the mercenary talked he replied; "Umh, back where I am from we have stories....stories which are similar what's happening around here. Stories which involve dark magic and radical change of behavior, one common element to all of them is though is one thing;<em>demons</em>. They reside deepest parts of<em>Darklands</em>, but heard some may be sealed in sort of tombs in other lands. Demons are most strong creatures of dark, or darkness this case. They are varied and are good in dark magic but they can teach it to greedy power hungry mortals. They can disguise look mortals or possess mortal beings....like with those runes you cut off looked like dark binding seals. Bind dark spirits, undead, demons or such, into living hosts.<br/><br/>This is just my speculation so do not count my words mean much....but this sounds very much similar to stories what I had been told when I was little. I cannot much offer in advice in regards how undo such magic as I know only pieces of such lore here and there. But it sounds like this Malik guy is drawing all high ups from other countries to attend in funeral....so perhaps hit them with dark magic to become his puppets or kill them off? Who knows. I am not local so I do not know stuff like you rest may know."