-Shalis and Willow Windborn are living in peace in a remote part of silverpine forest. They are lovers.
-Something is approaching from beyond the treeline, and the couple gets to their feet ready to fight.
-Demons reveal themselves, and a wild brawl results in the capture of Willow, as Shalis is left for dead.
-Shalis struggles to get to a nearby eternal fountain, healing her wounds.
-As soon as she is healed up, she hurries to the Temple of Elune, in order to seek the priestess council.
-The priestess, Felore Moonray, tells her about the burning legion, and its due invasion.
-"The legions invasion will come eventually, there is no stopping it, but before it does, you may have a chance to save your beloved Willow." Felore said.
-Felore further advices you to recieve a scroll from her library, which contain the instructions to summoning a small impling.
-The impling will be able to provide you with valuable information about how you can travel to the outland and find Willow.
-Shalis sets out to find the neccesary materials for the summoning, and returns to the temple.
-Felore brings Shalis to her private chambers and revelas a passage to an underground cave, where the summoning will take place, out of harms way for anyone else, in case something woud go wrong.
-The summoning is completed, and the imp Nox appears. Before Shalis and Felore have time to react, he breaks free, and disappears through a small hole in the wall.
-Felore tells Shalis to catch him swiftly, before he brings havoc to the lands above. Felore grants you what she belives is an essence cage to imprison him in. SHe also sens out her owls to search the area for Nox.
-An owl locates Nox, and Shalis hurries to the location to find Nox torturing a racoon, and she swiftly moves to imprision him in the essence cage.
-Nox laughs, as he sees what she tries to do, and does not make a move to avoid being captured.
-When the essence cage fails to imprison him, he tells her that an essence cage cannot imprison anyone unless its target have agreed to it. "I will agree to be captured, if you best me in a contest. If you win, my soul will be bound to your little trinket there. However, if you lose, you are the one who will be imprisoned. Deal?"
-Shalis agrees to the deal, and asks what the contest shall be.
-"I will best you in any area for sure, little Night Elf. Take your pick! You've already lost."
-Shalis thinks about his words, and realizes that the demon is indeed much stronger than her in many ways. However, she comes up with a plan.
-"There is a grand silvery oak in the east of those lands. The one who touches it first will be victorios, and the loser shall be imprisoned in the essence cage."
-"Very well."
-Nox reach out to touch the essence cage, and spoke a few demonic words. The cage lit up with a green glow.
-"The cage have now been infused with the rules. Its magic will make sure the loser will be imprisoned.
-"When the racoon here (Nox indicated to his claw where the racoon was still hanging helplessly) reaches the treeline after I release it, the race shall start, alright?"
-"Let's get this over with, Demon."
-The race begun and Shalis dashes away with her night elven nimbleness. Nox on the other hand, did nothing. Arrogant, and confident in his speed, he gave Shalis a big headstart. Just as Shalis had thought he would. She had an ace up her sleeve. The special technique she was taught by Willow, allowed her to move faster than the wind, and she intended to keep that secret as long as possible.
-Drawing closer to the tree, she saw that Nox lift off from the cliff where they started. He kept a calm pace, but he was moving way faster than Shalis had anticipated. She focused on her breathing, and kept her gaze focused in front of her. The wind felt lighter and less dense around her, and her steps quickly picked up speed.
-Nox, watching from the air, saw this, and felt a small pike of fear pierce his stomach. He started beating his wings all he could, and booms of broken air echoed over the forests.
-Shalis, not taking her focus away frm the path ahead, felt her heart race, and was carful not to lose her flow. She was going to make it!
-Not ten seconds later, she leaped through the treeline surrounding the great tree, looking upon it. She gasped. Just next to the tree, Nox was floating in the air. He taunted her, holding one finger a few centimeters away from the stem. An extreme grin twisted his face into a grotesque grimace.
-Nox watched as Shalis shrunk to her knees with tears in her eyes. "Forgive me Willow..." She lay down on the ground, elbows supporting her upper body frfom touching the earth, but with her head hanging low. Nox watched her sob, and felt joy twirling inside his stomach at great speed. Success! "Oh, you little pathetic waste of matter, did you bring the essence cage? It will certainly be interesting to see how we can fit that fat body into no more space than an owls beak."
-Nox listened to her sobbing, capering at its sound, a melody for his ears, soft and beautiful. Suddenly, the music changed, and a grim tone of laughter broke the sobbing.
-"Hey! What are you laughing about, Night elf?"
-Shalis laughter grew louder and more joyful.
-"She's lost it for sure." Nox thought ot himself.
-Shalis craned her head upwards to look at Nox with a baleful gaze. A wide smile was dancing across her lips. Nox looked at her, intrigued by her strange reaction to her soon to be loss. She put her right arm to the ground, and lifted herself to stand at all four.
-Nox eyes nearly popped as he saw, that with her left hand, she was patting a root. She had won.
-Nox flew anxiously from side to side through the air, watching as Shalis raised the essence cage. What was he going to do? Without a second thought, he flew away from Shalis as fast as he could, but his efforts was no use. Pulsating tendrils of green magic lashed out from the essence cage at Nox, who screamed in pain as they latched to his body. He struggled for a few seconds, but was then merciessly pulled into the small essence cage.
-Shalis returns to Felore with Nox safely imprisoned.
-Felore tells Shalis to step outside, as she is going to "do things" to tun Nox into somthing more friendly.
-As much as Shalis would like to see the little imp suffer, she stepps out as she is still recovering from her almost loosing to Nox.
-After a day and a night, Felore emerges from her temple, with Nox floating gently by her side.
-"He is kind as a lamb now Shalis, and ready to serve to your hearts content. Find Willow and bring him back! I'll always be here if you need me."
-"Thank you Priestess. I am forever in your debt. Now, Nox, tell me what I need to open a portal to the outland."
-"Opening a portal is easy. A portal for a non-demon however, will not be a walk in the forest. First you'll need the Runes. Six runes should be enough, and you need to place them in a circle to create the boundaries for the portal. Next, You'll need a key. A key can be anything really, but it needs to be infused with the correct incantations in order to call the portal in the first place. And lastly, the most important part: you'll need a great amount of souls.
-"Souls?"
-"Yes. In order to open the portal, some kind of fuel is needed. Demonic magic runs on souls. This is needed for all portals between this world and the Outland. How do you think Felore managed to summon me? Bingo. The portal clamied a part of her soul! I must say she looked surprisingly healthy for reducing it like that."
-"Felore... I didn't know!"
-"Yes, yes. Her sacrifice was grand and all that. Now first of all, you need a container for the souls. A soul gem. It is a glowing blue crystal witch feeds of the death of nearby beings. They can be found everywhere about a trees length below the earth. However, Most are microscopic, so we need to go somewhere where a lot of blood have been spllied. A battlefield for example!"
-Shalis face went pale. "Would a graveyard do?"
-"No you dummy. That's where people are taken after they die, not when they die. Now, that battlefield..."
-"Shut up, demon. This is a place where animals of silverpine go when they are old, and die in peace. All beings who dies here are dying within the distance you can throw a rock."
-"That... should probably do it!"
-"Good. Let us be on our way."
-What Shalis had in mind, was a sacred grove in the east of Silverpine. She had heard about a soul gem being there before, and that it was guarded there by a handful of druids. Getting it would be a desecration for sure, but she could not stand the thought of not seeing Willow again. She was willing to do anything.
-Shalis approached the glade, with the plan to quietly go in, recieve the soul gem, and get out.
-She is discovered, and she is forced to kill the druids, in order to not be branded a desecrator, and banned from silverpine. "Don't worry." Nox grinned "The Soul gem will only grow slightly larger now."
-She goes underground, and finds the mountain chamber where the crystal have grown. It is much bigger than they aticipated, and she breaks a piece from it, and wears it around her neck.
-Shalis hurried out of the sacred grove, collecting the bodies of the druids with the soul gem. "Handy clean-up tool, isn't it?" Nox taunted her.
-With a heavy heart, Shalis return to her home in Silverpine, and collapses, crying over her crimes. "No time to rest, Shalis! Time to collect souls! With the four you have in there already being petty as they are, I'm pretty sure they won't do any difference. Worthless pieces, if you ask me" Shalis ground her teeth.
This is where all the submaps will take place. Shalis travels to various locations, collecting grand souls.
-When the soul gem is finally filled to the brim with pulsating soul energies, it is almost time to open the portal. The last thing that is needed to be done, is to recieve the key.
-Nox tells Shalis of a mighty warlock, that keeps the key as a collection item. He also tells her that his specialty is toxic words that corrupts and spellbinds any listener, so Shalis needs to cover her ears before engaging combat.
-After defeating the Warlock, and recieving the key, Shalis returns to Felore, where she offers her the soul gem. Felore realizes that Shalis is the one who killed the druid guarding it, but accepts the soul gem anyway, on the condition that she will Give up her moonblade, so she vcan never do something like that again.
-Shalis accepts, and a spell is placed upon her weapon, that when she returns to Silverpine from the outland, her blade will be teleported into Felores possesion for safekeeping.
-The portal is now opened, and Shalis goes through, guided by Nox.
-She arrives somewhere in the outland, and she manages to locate Willow by sending Nox to find him for her. He returns shortly, and tells her that he is imprisoned in Hellfire Fortress.
-She defeats the keeper of the prison and goes to release him, and they return to the portals location.
-Upon returning form the outland, they find themselves standing in the burning woods of silverpine, with demons running everywhere, and infernals descending upon the earth from rifts in the sky.
-Sneaking through the ranks of the demons, she makes her way to the Temple of Elune in order to find Felore, and retrive the moonblade so she can help get rid of the curse she brought upon them.
-Felore reveals herself to be the one who orchestrated the entire thing, making Shalis a puppet to carry out her tasks. Her goal was to open a portal all along, and bring the glory of the Burning Legion to Azeroth.
-Hunt down Felores four generals, to anger her, and fight her yourself as a final battle. |
