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| - Raest has driven two of the black dragons away from the battlefield, while two others still circle around in the sky. He has Silanah on the run and he knows that she is injured and hurting. Raest exults in the power that he has and the destruction he has wrought. As he tracks Silanah, he destroys a stone guardhouse containing creatures taller than Imass (presumably humans) so that they won't be a distraction, then a man and his horse who happen to be riding close, just because he is irritated by their presence. By now, Raest's body is completely shredded to pieces but he is surrounded and held together by his Omtose Phellack sorcery. He expects Silanah to ambush him again beyond the next hill's summit but finds her regarding him from some distance, steadily, without the presence of her War
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| - Raest has driven two of the black dragons away from the battlefield, while two others still circle around in the sky. He has Silanah on the run and he knows that she is injured and hurting. Raest exults in the power that he has and the destruction he has wrought. As he tracks Silanah, he destroys a stone guardhouse containing creatures taller than Imass (presumably humans) so that they won't be a distraction, then a man and his horse who happen to be riding close, just because he is irritated by their presence. By now, Raest's body is completely shredded to pieces but he is surrounded and held together by his Omtose Phellack sorcery. He expects Silanah to ambush him again beyond the next hill's summit but finds her regarding him from some distance, steadily, without the presence of her Warren. Thinking it to be her surrender, he moves towards her. As he does so, the landscape in front of him changes and he finds himself in a vision before the time of even the Jaghut. He meets Kruppe, who proclaims that Raest has not aged well and that this is his, Kruppe's dream. Raest attacks but Kruppe appears in another place to the side tutting him. Hearing a sound, Raest turns around and finds himself attacked by Tool who ripps the Tyrant's shoulder away with his flint sword, the blow slicing through ribs and sternum. K'rul then appears and confronts Raest, telling him that he is not invulnerable. "You are a fool, Raest. In this age, even a mortal can kill you. The tide of enslavement has reversed itself. It is now we gods who are the slaves, and the mortals our masters- though they know it not." ―K'rul, trying to convince Raest of his vulnerability K'rul offers Raest a choice, to fall by the sword of the First Sword of the T'lan Imass empire, or accompany K'rul to the gates of Chaos, both a better fate than to meet death at the hand of Silanah's master. Raest, however, chooses to transfer himself to another body that he has already found, evading Kruppe, Tool and K'rul.
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