Forbidden Power: Cursed Waters by Games Workshop LTD

Author:Games Workshop LTD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Games Workshop LTD
Published: 2019-05-16T17:38:57+00:00

Each of the eels bore a rider upon its back; lithe and muscled warriors clad in ridged war-plate and sparkling, crested helms. Each carried a lance that crackled with lightning. The aquiline beast that Jedd had first seen charged at the head of the formation, and it bore the most magnificent warrior of all, both regal and terrible at once. His cloak was a shimmering cascade of iridescent blue, his armour shone like the sun sparkling upon still water. A strange sensation came over Jedd as he looked upon the wondrous sight; he felt his head swimming, as if he had drained a yard of moonale. Through the bleary fug of his vision, time seemed to slow. It was if he was caught in a daze, in the grasp of some waking terror, unable to tear his eyes away.

As the undersea king raised his glaive high and plunged into the storm of death, the spirits parted before him like a breaking wave. Blinding arcs of lightning blasted dozens of gheists into showers of spectral matter. The eel-riders followed close behind, thrusting their lances into the mass of spirits, their mounts snapping out with razor-fanged maws to rip and tear at formless foes. The death-tide rippled, and a great host of ghostly horsemen burst from its glowing mass and charged the crested knights, their fleshless mounts trailing balefire as they struck out with verdigrised scythes. Many eel-riders were torn from their mounts, tumbling down into the black depths below.

For a moment, Gulley Jedd thought he and his fellows had been granted salvation by these strange riders from the deep, and that they might by some miracle escape this nightmarish battle. Then he heard a thunderous splintering of wood, and the deck of the Jolly Lady rose into the air almost vertically, sending him and his crewmates tumbling into empty air. Jedd somehow managed to grab the nearest guide-rope, and he dangled there helplessly, legs scrabbling against the slick deck. Others were not so fortunate.

He saw Kobb thrown head over heels, to smash with bone-shattering force into the foremast. Other screaming figures rolled past him, scrabbling helplessly for a handhold before splashing into the freezing lakewater.

Something vast and dark smashed its way through the hull of the galley – an immense, shelled leviathan, ridged and scarred, and covered with slick and foul-smelling weeds. It bore atop its back a howdah of polished coral, and a gaunt rider stood braced upon the beast’s head; an aelf, Jedd saw, with skin so pale it seemed translucent. The aelf clasped a chain embedded in the leviathan’s leathery hide, muscles bulging as he guided his charge on.

The sea-beast reared and soared into the sky, stretching rudder-like limbs wide. As its great bulk passed him, Jedd looked across and met the eyes of its master. Pitch black they were, and as cruelly indifferent as those of any boneshark or skullcoiler about to snare its prey. Looking into those empty orbs, Jedd felt a fear no less profound than that which he had felt when the dead had swept across Lake Lethis.

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