The Verge Of An Empire

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I've disliked Arren el'Calyps for years. To put it mildly. He answers me the same. To put it mildly. El'Kalipsa has always been what I never was and never could be - a desired and respected thane, who is expected everywhere, and not endured through force. I, in turn, embodied everything that he despised and shunned - a dirty upstart who somehow climbed to a high and influential post. The genus el'Kalipsa was considered the second in antiquity and purity of blood in Mescia, only the imperial dynasty was more noble. The Tencris said that when the ancestor of the Emperors first emerged from the shadows to Silana, the ancestor of el'Kalips followed him and became the second. The Repentant saw my origin as so vile and unnatural that it could be equated with a crime.

Arren el'Kalipsa, like me, holds an important government position, running the Scoalt Yard's Department of Magical Crimes, and although the name of this department does not impress, people in the know understand the power and b