>>5710409>>5710419>>5710508>>5710627>>5710747>>5710757The Serpent Queen immediately recognizes that she cannot pass this opportunity by. Bloodrise becoming the new centre for Reptilian activity in the north of the known world? This is an unbelievable windfall. If the upper echelons of the Priesthood do not come here, nor the hidden secret circles of the great houses of the other castes, that is no great loss—they cannot reveal their own bases of operation without compromising their own precious veil of secrecy. Nobody really knows how many Reptilians are alive in the world today—TRUE Reptilians, undegraded, of the Master race—but among her learned cadre it is estimated that there are as few as ten thousand, with less than a third in or below the Northlands; if hundreds are dead, and hundreds more come to the Serpent Queen’s kingdom, it will be a major shift in the balance of power!
And yet she cannot stop scheming against them.
Even as she plans to invite these Reptilians in, the one-time Novice Fleshweaver cannot help but plot how to turn them to her advantage—to cull the useless eaters among the dwarven population that her mate—led astray by his pathetic new human pet—would not. Maybe she could bait her greatest rivals into coming to Blodorise and bringing their followers with them, only to feed them flesh of dwarves, expose them publicly, and let the angry mob assert the oppressive regime of ‘racial tolerance’ which the king has proclaimed? It would reduce the number of mouths to feed AND eliminate opposition!
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Gods Below and Beyond damnit all, she can’t.
