>>5708415>>5708419>>5708428>>5708459>>5708492>Hug her. She’s back!>Catch her up on the situation. Postulate your own theories. Ask for her thoughts.You near bowl your master over you as you snatch her up in a hug. “Lady Sigrid! You’re back..!” You exclaim, eyes alight.
“Ugh–..! Snuff. Snuff! Let go of me!” The halfling hacks as you squeeze the air from her lungs. “If you grab me like that again I’ll use you as chicken feed. Now.. what’s happened since the knight took me for a ride? I don’t presume you’ve gotten everyone else killed in the meantime, have you?”
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“A demon lord made up of.. goblins? And you said he has your wand? That’s troublesome..” Your lady looks deep in thought as you close your recount of the events that led you here. “Hmm–.. let me think.. STREGA, STREGA.. I wrote a capstone paper at the conservatory on BARON VYNMARK, so I’ve some familiarity with the demon barons..”
“The demon said he ravaged the primordial sea with METEOR SWARM, if that helps?” You offer.
“Ah, that’s it–! The BLACK MAGE BARON STREGA of the 40th LEGION, the ETERNAL FLAME. His specialty was fire magic.” Your master rests her chin on her palm. “He wasn’t the strongest of the barons, all told–there were better spellcasters and stronger warriors among his contemporaries–but what set him apart was his impressive vitality. He was capable of returning full-force from the brink of death like a fire roaring back to life from cinders. Hence, the ETERNAL FLAME. In the end, that title was just a moniker. The adventurers eventually took his head all the same as the rest of his ilk.”
“But.. I saw him. That was definitely him, or at least his spirit.” You frown. “Could it be that his spirit has stuck around here after all this time..?”
