"Legend of the Twelve Regions"
Fists of Rayje, Part 1
by Edward Bolme
This follows the events of The Battle of Naroom, Part 5, upcoming portions of The Unwanted, the fiction in Book of Ages #3, and the Nightmare's Dawn rulebook.

Bograth...

Olabra paced back and forth in her hut. "This is not going well," said she.

"Why not?" asked Eryss. "Everyone is saying we're doing very well in beating Paradwyn. They say we can march pretty well wherever we want to in the jungle."

"That's exactly the point," said Olabra. "When I assented to let him take the throne, I hoped that he would raise our people up, get us to be as proud as we act. But I didn't want him to do too well, so that he would be easy to remove once he'd served my purpose. If the war went okay, I could have surpassed him by winning a brilliant victory. But the war is going so well that any brilliance I might show would therefore be credited to him."

"Oh, I see," said Eryss, even though she didn't see at all.

"But this can work out, I can make it work," said Olabra, talking to herself. "But how? I can't just shove him out, because he's become a symbol to the people. I can't surpass him, because he's doing too well. I can't smear him, because he hasn't failed. Hmm." She paced some more, while outside a dreary fog rose from the ground as night fell.

Suddenly she stopped, and a smile broke across her face. She turned her softly glowing eyes upon Eryss and said, "There's no better symbol than a martyr, is there? And no one would question my leadership if I took over the grand designs of the All-High King in his name. Excellent! The problem remains, then, to find an opponent that the king cannot beat. But who?"

Read:
Arderial
Cald
The Core
The Sands of D'Resh
Kybar's Teeth
Nar
Naroom
The Orothe Deeps
Paradwyn
The Underneath
The Weave


What happens next? Read Part 2 "When will you Rayje?"