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ADVENTURE PATH • PART 5 OF 6
Legacy of Fire
The
Impossible
Eye
Adventure by Greg A. Vaughan
New Fiction by Elaine Cunningham
moke and ash and cinders flew from the
forests charred by the Firebleeder, fires
that scorched soil into dust. Vast deserts
grew from lush forest in mere days. The
smoke turned noon to twilight.
Heroes rose to the challenge and set
forth to conquer the fire wyrm, but their
silk banners burned away and their steel
swords were reduced to slag. After
countless armies fell to the beast’s wrath,
a hundred arcanists and masters of ancient magical bloodlines
swore an oath as the Legion of Wands and set forth to test
their magic against the nightmare. The Firebleeder’s first blast
cut their numbers in half, sweeping the weakest away. This
bought the others time to bring their magic to the fore; freezing
storms, hails of icy spears, rains of hissing water, and thunderous
lightning transfixed the wyrm as bolts of force broke upon it in a
furious storm.
Magma spewed from the Firebleeder’s wounds, each injury
gushing like the eruption of a furious volcano, but the wizards
stood strong. Infuriated and confused, the fire wyrm summoned
a blast of flame to melt the mountains and boil the seas. Yet
as the abomination readied to unleash its final wrath, the
wizards spoke as one, shouting a single word of arcane might
that silenced all for a thousand miles, ringing off the clouds.
And breaking the silence, a great cracking sounded as the
Firebleeder’s volcanic blood cooled to stone and the beast
crashed to earth.
The Firebleeder fell, impaling itself upon a mountain made
pale by the bones of the thousands of heroes that died that day,
its hide shattering to cinders. A hundred lights glowed over
its corpse by night, and of the Legion of Wands, only a dozen
survived to rejoice in their victory and mourn rades.
Yet what none saw was that, at dawn, the corpse twitched and
stir