A Family Hunting Trip

[Mike the Pike]

Dearest reader, do allow to introduce to you the Lady Ereth Helbane, known variously as the Ereth the Spiteful, or Ereth, Mistress of the Frosts, dread general of the forces of His Majesty King Malekith. Accompanying Mistress Ereth is her younger sister Anethra, a devotee of the arcane arts, whose skill with the winds of magic is said to be second only to Morathi herself.

As befits war leaders of such stature and power, Ereth and Anethra arrived in the Old World in no less a vessel than the ‘Oblivion’, one of the much feared Black Arks of Naggaroth. Mistress Ereth has also brought along some of her recently acquired ‘pets’, Balefire, a young War Hydra, hatched a mere two decades ago and as yet inexperienced in the ways of war, and the manticore, Seradahn.

The motives for The Helbane sisters' voyage are threefold. Firstly, to blood the beast Balefire and their other pets on the battlefields of the Old World. Secondly, to acquire slaves, to work in the plantations, mines and beast pens of the sprawling Helbane estates. Thirdly and perhaps most important of all, for sheer pleasure. Nothing is more pleasing to a Dark Elf, let alone a pair so vicious as Ereth and Anethra Helbane, as the thrill of battle, the clash of steel on steel, the screams of the dying, the despair of the vanquished and the ecstasy of victory.

So, pray to what Gods you hold dear, for the Helbane sistersr landed. There will be no mercy, no quarter given, none spared her attentions.