Extemporaneous Peregrination: (Book Three of the Pentacle Series) by Robert Harper

Author:Robert Harper [Harper, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-30T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

Even though they were not his own, Danny experienced the sage's memories like brief glimpses of the hilly countryside from a passing train. Playing in Danny's mind like a short documentary, the sage's memories came complete with a voiceover by the woman herself, but in third person for some reason.

Sage Bedelia Corundum had been born to a prestigious and honored dwarven family. Held in regard from the time of the Cataclysm, their secret training regimen placed warriors from their lineage above the others in terms of raw physical power. Strength being one of the hardest attributes to train, their family held political power by holding many high positions in the dwarven military.

Bedelia had been unique among her blood relations in that she had an exceptionally sharp tactical mind to match her family's strength. Despite their political sway, very few Corundums had managed to obtain a high enough mastery in the military ranks to reach the title of sage. The title of sage was only bestowed upon those dwarves who had entered the pinnacle of their chosen paths.

The vast subterranean realm of the dwarves, called the Crimson Caverns, had been the last refuge during the end of the great cataclysm. Before the Great Cataclysm, the dwarves had been strongly allied to the forebears of the elves now occupying the elven forest. When the Cataclysmic drove the elves and dwarves from their ancestral homelands and into the far outlands they now called home, the two races fled as one. Hundreds of thousands of elves and dwarves, vastly more dwarves than elves, traveled as one defensible force. Just as the two races believed they had managed to escape the alien creatures which had hounded their every step, they found themselves beset on two sides by the vast hordes of the Cataclysmic. With retreating back into Cataclysmic infested lands no longer being an option, the dwarven and elven races had raced ahead in a vain attempt to outpace the quickly encroaching doom.

Even with the dwarves' mechanical transports, they were unable to keep up with their swift elven allies. The elves didn't hesitate to throw down their prized possessions and artifacts in favor of their lives. Many dwarven warriors fell back in an attempt to stall the Cataclysmic, but it was all for nothing. In the end, even the elves' impressive speed could not save them from the closing Cataclysmic ranks. The remaining dwarves, regardless of their chosen paths, turned to fight for the survival of their species.

The story passed down from generation to generation of Corundums was that the earth lurched beneath the feet of all who were there that day. The sounds of battle had died as the ground beneath their feet began to move like the waters of the oceans. Those who survived that day say the elves had also made their last stand, but it was at the edge of the two waves of Cataclysmic. While the dwarves' allies fought bravely, their numbers dwindled faster than those of the dwarves.

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