The Dark Tower - Level The Second
Omphalos seems pleased to see you once more, swaying and dipping his head in greeting.
"I will pray that you are found worthy," he assures Tesseryn respectfully, not at all implying that if the Paladin is not his corpse will be disposed of in a manner befitting.
Aurion, Brindle and Leisha congregate in the doorway, choosing to give Tesseryn his privacy in what will undoubtedly be a very personal and private test of his faith.
Cogwitz immediately starts to follow after the Paladin ... but Wrukaog grabs him by the collar, the big orc being marginally less interested in what will undoubtedly amount to a lot of soul searching than he is in the Naga's answers to the questions posed.
"You have the amulet ? That was well done." That you had visited the White Tower was obvious to Omphalos by the manner of your arrival, but he is too polite to mention it, save to ask, "I trust all is well with the guardians of Mitra's sacred temple ?"
Alas the Naga knows naught of the dragon, though he is prepared to speculate. "No doubt an evil creature, lured by false promises. I have heard rumours, however, that in the Black Tower itself abide the Sons of Set, the bastard offspring of the evil god, bound by blood to his dark designs. Their appearance is said to be most strange, no two the same, their forms riven by the Chaos that created them."
"Berkam-Shem ? Again well done ! He only came this way once, but was driven back by the glyphs that ward this chamber. At that time he had with him a creature that seemed beholden to him, a small devil ... an Imp you would call it, I think ... whispering in his ear."
"The doors I have heard of," he smiles as Brindle corrects Aurion's naming of them, "their existence is somewhat disturbing. One is good, the other evil ... some have said that their squabbles merely hold a mirror to the larger conflict between ourselves and the minions of set, the diamond they strive for naught but a shining bauble upon which men place value."
"Though I cannot accept that. If we do not struggle against evil then we are no better than they."
If Omphalos hears Leisha's question, he does not comment.