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Venath

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Venath Demons

 

This shout burst from him in shock – three enormous, hulking, black-skinned demons were on the road just beyond the dead horse.  One of them held a club of driftwood that looked like a drummer's baton in its huge hands, and was using it to pound down some more on a mangled, crushed corpse.  The other two followed the blows as if gauging the effects of each and every crushing impact.  Bluish blood had sprayed out on the road, along with other less identifiable discharges from the pulped ruin of their victim's body.

In a low voice Sandalath said,  "Your Nachts – the Jaghut were inveterate jokers.  Hah hah.  That was a Forkrul Assail.  It seems the Shake stirred things up somewhat – they're probably all dead, in fact, and this one was backtracking with the intention of cleaning up any stragglers – out through the gate, probably, to murder every refugee on that shoreline we've just left behind.  Instead, he ran into us – and your Venath demons."

 

 

"In a manner of speaking.  A geas, I suspect.  They're Soletaken … or maybe D'ivers.  Either way, this particular realm forced a veering – or a sembling – who can say which species is the original, after all."

"Then what do the Jaghut have to do with any of this?"

"They created the Nachts.  Or so I gathered – the mage Obo in Malaz City seemed to be certain of that.  Of course, if he's right and they did, then what they managed to do was something no one else has ever managed – they found a way to chain the wild forces of Soletaken and D'ivers. (DoD) 

 

.  The demons – Venath, who'd once been allies of the Jaghut.  Who gave of their blood to the Trell – and what a fell mix that turned out to be (DoD)