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The Mystic cabal grew more militant under its new avatar, Malenfaler, who
aided demons to enter Serin that they might shed some light on his silent
ambition. As was to be expected, the three generals of the Material Abyss
brought chaos upon Serin, the same chaos that ruled the lands they came
from. Even given the enormous disadvantage in numbers they faced, they
proved difficult to destroy, save for a strange reaction to Serin's cabal
items, which were deadly harmful to them when present. Seeking an answer to
the riddle of the demons plaguing Serin, the new immortal leader of Legion,
Resatimm, deliberated what to do. He noted how Malenfaler and the rest of
the Mystics continued to be obsessed by the gem of souls, but the key to
finding it eluded them. Thus he decided to find it for himself, knowing
that whatever power it held would be something for the demons to reckon with
in his hands, and fateful if the Mystics were to find it first.
Resatimm traveled to lands undiscovered by even the Mystics, to an island
discovered by Davairus before his ascension. He found within the forests
that a set of gems were held by a group of ancient undead mages, and gave an
order to his army to obtain them. Though the secrets of the island had
eluded Malenfaler, rumor of it quickly reached him, and a race for the
possession of the gems began. A race that each cabal had at some point come
close to winning, but was always sabotaged by the demons managing to get in
the way. Eventually, the dark lord Resatimm seized the gems from their
holders himself, tired of the blundering of the mortals. With the last gem
touching his hands in the center of Seringale, a beam of light shot skyward,
encasing his undead body and renewing it for a brief moment with its youth.
As prophesied by the Mystic shaman Ug, the gems themselves did combine, and
a great power was unchained. The gem of souls took form quickly, and then
just as quickly it cracked apart, and a new figure appeared. Beginning with
a fine mist, it solidified into the skeletal appearance of a lich. As this
haunting prisoner of the gem regained its awareness, it spoke. A tale of
hate, madness and bloodlust, and a deep desire for revenge against his
captor. Soon after, the lich proved to have powers that matched the
immortals themselves, and with the aid of the ultimately triumphant
Malenfaler, the lich began the summoning of his hibernating army of fell and
abyssal minions through the portal that the Mystics had opened. He quickly
discovered the demon's strange reaction to the items of power that rested
within Serin's cabal temples and set his dark army against them. The
scourge of the lich Zaikkra had begun.
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