ShadowCaster/Flooded Palace

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Items Acquired
Skull	Located at Ⓐ.
Potion of Power	Located at Ⓑ.
Magical Sword	Located at Ⓒ.
Maorin Armor	Located at Ⓒ.
Statue Head	Located at Ⓓ.
Boulder	Inaccessible / Unused
Enemies Encountered
	Ceiling Stalker
	Piranha
	Skeleton

The Flooded Palace is the second level of ShadowCaster.

Synopsis

To be Added

Illuminations

"If times had been gentler, he would have been a great king. Already he had earned his place in the immortal histories, and he was still young. Not yet fifty, he had ruled the land for seventeen years. The tribes had been brought together under his banner, and even the river-nomads came when he called council. But times were not gentle. In fact, they were over. Instead of the greatest of rulers, he would earn the silent title of Last King.

He saw the final guard fall. The crumpled forms morphed in death from Maorin fighters to the more familiar faces of his lifetime comrades. There was no time to mourn them, however, nor would there be opportunity later. His face was lacerated and ruined, but impassive, as the warrior-ruler fought his way back to his throne room - only his remaining eye showed any feeling at all. It glittered with hate and determination.

He reached his seat of power just in time. There was a covenant. He had listened where the priests had not, and he knew what all others had scoffed at was sacred truth. With his soul, he could summon the Powers. Neither gods nor spirits answered his call, but the very Essences of the sky and ground, oceans and abyss. His people were lost, but the world itself could be kept from Veste's grasp. He called on those wild forces to hide the entrance to the Otherworld Door and cleanse the palace of the unholy skeletons. He summoned creatures from darkness to defend the halls and Shiastra's Key from all intruders, and he bound those forces to the final task of sealing and flooding the palace halls.

It was a desperate action, and the cost was the absolute sacrifice of his immortal soul, a final solution to be brought to bear against the ultimate foe. What is left of the great man now abides in his ensorceled home, awaiting the next invasion with soulless patience."