A Forsaken Land

Later taking his break, Cephas thought that the best way to get out of a forest without a map would be by climbing a tree. He never had that experience. So he mused that since he's probably gonna fall off a few times he might as well put a teleportation rune on the ground to avoid losing any bones.To his astonishment he only slipped a few times on the tree's moss but other than that he reached the treeline without any problem. He gazed around and saw that the forest was quite vast and he could not see the edges but again his eyesight wasn't nearly as good as it used to be. While scouring the woods he saw ruins in the distance, it wasn't civilization per se but at least it was something and maybe it had a better vantage point.

Feeling optimic for once he fell lazily from the tree before teleporting back to his rune. He thought that since he already used his legs for fighting and climbing he might as well use them for running. He could not call on his steed anyway not if he wanted to burn the forest, not that he cared about the trees but more about not burning himself.

Cephas rushed for about an hour but then feeling a bit under the weather from this exercise, he broke into a fast walking pace. Two hours later, he reached the limit of the growth and could see the ruins. Unfortunately there was a thirty feet wide chasm surrounding the ruins.

"Inconsistent luck's her name, pissing me off's her game". he sighed "I hope there is bridge of some kind not too far." Cephas said while starting to circle moat. After an hour or so, he started to lose hope to cross the chasm and of exploring these vestiges. However following his heavy sigh of wavering expectations he tilted his head back up and caught sight of a bridge. He ran to it and observed it was in quite a pitiful conditions but that didn't worry him at all. Being an adventurer always had meant slaying dragons and crossing derilect bridges.

While crossing the bridge, Cephas contemplated the ruins and guessed that it must've been a small fort with a watch tower. As the undead reached the doors that seemed in pristine condition when compared to the rest of the ruins which were in shambles for the most part. When he entered he laid eyes to a room with large and numerous broken windows and saw that even if the walls were old and covered with moss they stood except there was no roof at all. He gazed back to the center and contemplated with curiosity a twelve feet structure. It was a pyramid supporting a socle that was holding a cylindrical formed with five arms and a small boulder at the top of it. Even though it wasn't very impressing, Cephas had never seem anything alike. Its width and height suggested a fountain but there was no basin around it. He then considered it to be an alter but usually those would either be small and with a flat top to give offerings or otherwise much taller and much more sculpted to give an idea of who or what it was supposed to worship.

As Cephas was inspecting from bottom to top the intriguing sculpture, he noticed something as he glanced at the sky since they was no more roof in these ruins. "The sun hasn't moved since I've been here!" he exclaimed with a small amount of fear in his voice."It's not possible, when I arrived It was at least the middle of the afternoon! This is..." as he was rambling in bewilderment the sun then promptly disappeared and the moon rose as suddenly.

He kneeled in total incomprehension. Did he enter another realm ? Cephas gradually regained his senses and started to hear a faint sound of horses trotting. He got up swiftly and proceeded by hiding behind the alter to quickly ponder on his next move.

"Only the Alliance would use horses. I doubt I have time to go back to the front doors and catch a quick glance of their number. I can't easily escape even if the windows are broken but the only way across the chasm is the bridge."

As the warlock hid and speculated, he felt a shiver down his spine.

"Great they have archmages..." he felt another shiver.

"So much power and they're not even in my line of sight. What in the Dark Lady's name are they ?!" he muttered with anguish.

He suddenly heard the door with force.

"It has been a thousand year sister and still I feel malice in this place." a strong voice spoke.

"Yes, and it will remain like this for a long time but the reason I wanted you to come back here was to confront one last time your past." a soothing voice

Cephas quickly glanced to identify who were the ones talking and whocould hold that much magical energy. As he scoured the entrance as steathly as possible he saw a tall deep blue horse with wings and a big horn. The second being he saw was the same except it was taller and it was white.

There isn't anyone in this room meaning that he wasn't in the presence of Alliance which he reflected in retrospection would be completely stupid. If he really is in another realm that he's never seen, that means the Alliance probably doesn't know of its existence either. Even if their power was as overwhelming as a Pit Lord's it didn't have any ominous and oppressing glow.

"Maybe they are more akin to the naaru." he mused silently while crouching back into hiding.

Well ok go in front of them and ask if they are. I mean really... creatures with that much power could flatten you easily and they probably never seen any undead but if you think it's a good idea to judge them just by gauging their power go straight ahead.

"It is weird however sister there is malice hanging over these remains but there seemed to be an accumulation of it around the structure that hosted the Elements of Harmony. The councentration isn't surprising but I would've thought that it couldn't taint this alter." said the booming voice.

"Yes it is quite peculiar indeed." said the appeasing voice.

"I am so toast." Cephas thought."Well here goes nothing..." he sighed as he rose back to his feet and sprinted at full pelt towards the nearest broken window while preying to Sylvanas that he wasn't found to quickly admist the darkness in the room.

He had jumped and was halfway through the window that he was held paralysed. He was so close to escaping and he heard saying : "Here is your accumulation of malice it would seem, Luna."