Whispers in the Dark

June 26th, in the 28th year after the Dark Portal was opened Ebon Hold, Eastern Plaguelands

A scream of unbearable sorrow echoed throughout the lower levels of Ebon Hold. Sir Roam Loreth, Knight of the Ebon Blade, could not stop himself from flinching. No matter how many times he heard her scream he always flinched. He would ALWAYS flinch he knew. For though he was dead he was not without emotion and none with any soul could help but feel the anguish of the person before him now. Not even an Ebon Blade. ESPECIALLY an Ebon Blade... for who else could better understand her pain?

Once again Dame Faylian Lanstryde screamed. He knew she could go days standing there in absolute silence. Then abruptly and without any apparent cause she would scream like she was now. He'd timed her once and her record was two hours straight without pause. It still made him shudder to remember.

Then just like that she was silent.

The sudden silence was almost as unnerving as the scream itself had been. Her eyes were open, she seemed to stare right through him as if he were not there, and she took no notice of the room around her at all. She appeared to him to be trapped in a world all her own.

She had been a powerful weapon in the Highlord's arsenal once. She had kept a tight reign on the Revenants of Lordaeron, a temporary unit of Ebon Blades, until the living could trust them enough to integrate Death Knights into the Alliance's elite: The Retribution of Arathor. She had identified the person who was the most outspoken against such integration; a man named Rhune Astherion, and had manipulated events to eliminate him as a threat.

Rumors spoke of an alliance between her and Malygos the Spellweaver and the kidnapping of Rhune's wife who was nearly broken as a result. Some said that she had used this event to create mistrust between Rhune and the Retribution. Others stated that she had stolen an artifact of great power from Rhune's Violet Eye allies and that she had betrayed Malygos after he was no longer useful and had destroyed his servants in the Sapphire Circle.

Only the Highlord knew for sure.

With the successful completion of her primary objective Faylian was thought to be a rising star in the Knighthood until something unexpected happened: the Scourge had destroyed her mentor and close friend, an Ebon Blade by the name of Alanus. Rumors were rife about that as well: that the two had been far more than teacher and pupil. Whatever the truth of the matter Faylian had been found just as she was now at a mailbox in Stormwind and holding the very letter that informed her of Alanus' death.

And so she had remained for the last four and a half months. Until now.

"She is to be taken to New Avalon at once. There a potential new ally will prove himself by making this weapon useful again and gain a uniquely qualified liaison with the Knighthood in so doing. Or he will fail and prove that he is useless," Roam said as he gestured and four ghouls stepped forward and surrounded Faylian.

"It is time that you once again suffered well Dame Lanstryde."