SHANNON HOWELL

Zaylekai had noticed something was wrong with the balance. He had felt it a few days ago and the pull to travel to a small town outside of Wortham. He had tried to ignore it, but he knew this was his calling and that innocent lives may need his help from the evils of the land.

There was only one thing that could disturb the balance in this way, however. Only a forceful tear into our plane of existence would cause this. One that he had felt and dealt with before and was still dealing with to this day.

The Prime Evils were forcing their way into our realm again and the Priest of Rathma were duty bound to put a stop to it and restore the balance.

When Zaylekai got to the outskirts of the town Tolmir which was silent, eerily silent, he could feel the disturbance stronger in the balance of life and death. The only sound coming from the town was a shutter beating against the side of a house or the crows perched in the trees cawing, looking for something to eat from high above.

Zaylekai resurrected a fallen warrior from a long past war in hopes he may have some information and to help him out in case he did encounter what brought him here. The only movement in the town though was a cat that walked on the handrail of a now silent and empty home

As Zaylekai entered the graveyard he saw skulls hanging from a tree and bones scattered the walkway of the cemetery. Not something you normally see in such a quiet town.

“What had happened here”, Zaylekai thought to himself as he carefully walked through the graveyard allowing his senses to spread out searching, listening, waiting for any sign or sound of what may have happened or if anyone survived that needs his help or could give him any information on what took place in the small town of Tolmir.

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This image is based on the games Diablo, Diablo 2, 3 and Immortal. If you are not familiar with the Diablo games, a Priest of Rathma is a Necromancer in the game.

Just a fun fact, I created Zaylekai's name by combining the Diablo necromancer Zayl and Star Trek Deep Space Nine's religious leader, the Kai with my own artistic license Zaylekai was created