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Sorry toots, I can't be present in the orb all the time, so I can't always be here to make sure everyone else is giving you the full story with nothing left out.
Anyway, where to begin? So you'll want to consult Faer about this, because there's a LOT of history (and religion) involved in this. You know what Imps are, right? They were these tiny little creatures that the gods used for this or that. Well at one point a large group were transformed en masse into what are now called Hobgoblins, though this is a LONG time ago and for the most part they've all died out by now. Except some, one of whom now goes by the name Warpath. He's an ancient being that's been around before the Fall of the Giants, and he even had a hand to play in their fall. Since then he's taken up residence in Orc country, desiring nothing more than combat and challenge, but orcs being less than clever, eventually he's run out of sport and the orcs eventually just learned to keep away from where his keep is, thus he fell into legend. Legend even YOU have heard some of. However, due to the new exploration of Ution (and other things we're not fully aware of), Warpath's interest has been rekindled, and he once again seeks to have the best champions the world can offer face him. In order to do this, he seeks to invade Ution, killing thousands in the initial assault, pretty much just to show what a threat he is. He then aims to set up his own dungeon lair and believes that there will be a few wars which he will win, but eventually there will come a time when, rather than large military battles and campaigns, both sides fall into a sort of stalemate, and THAT is when he hopes individual 'adventuring parties' made up of talented individuals such as yourself will try to make their way through his dungeon undetected to challenge him. THAT'S what he wants. He wants to have these specific challengers that are competent enough to infiltrate his lair (where full-scale attacks by armies have failed) and fight him, where he seeks to live or die. But for the common peasant or soldier? He's willing to throw away thousands of their lives in the invasion and wars just to achieve that challenge for himself. To him, that's okay, because it builds up a reputation for himself and attracts the sort of hero like Samon the Barbarian that he wants to come to face him. And he'd rather have them come to HIM than take the effort to search them out and challenge them himself. He has no delusions that his goal is just or anything other than completely amoral, but perhaps if granted another chance we might dissuade him from his intended path... But we can't count on that, and besides it might be too late. From what we've learned just now, he's somehow 'placed' his half-orc daughter into some kind of scrying stone he uses to communicate with his Watchers. The Watchers are those individuals in Ution that he has given those Eye Amulets to, which allow him to gauge the defenses and potential enemies withing Ution from afar. In return, he 'advises' his Watchers for their service. I would recommend interrogating/questioning (as thoroughly as you deem necessary) about how she came into possession of her amulet and the nature of her relation to Warpath. She seems quite 'stricken' that she's separated from him now. She may be the daughter of a very influential guild mage, but she herself is nothing but a rogue mage who has been aiding fugitives and criminals in the outlands. Anyway, his half-orc daughter, Pain, is coordinating various forces using the system of Watchers while Warpath himself is in a meeting with his generals, whoever they are. The brief glimpse of information we initially received when coming into contact with Pain revealed that she was currently working with another Watcher who wears a Plague Doctor mask and who in all likelihood is leader of a mercenary group (due to Mark's prior encounter with him at the kobold ambush of the goblins), and she's tasked him with keeping the High Knight unaware of the movements and intentions of Warpath's invasion. This is technically a plot against him, because as Paladins and defenders of the good, any plot to pull the wool over your eyes and keep you blinded from the oncoming invasion that will see the deaths of thousands is indeed something that goes against everything your order and the High Knight do/should stand for. Thus it is in your best interest, and the best interest of the world, that you bring all this information to the High Knight as soon as possible, as the success of their invasion may depend on the inaction of your order, or the alarm not being raised ahead of time.
Of less importance is the silly whims of Warpath and Pain. As said, they both are in it for the sort of battle-lust that can only be achieved by primitives, and so having no concern over the numerous lives cost by the upcoming wars, they are more interested in finding potential challengers. Warpath himself has professed interest in Mark and the girl Tinata, while Pain has expressed her desire to face you in combat. This is not at all pertinent or important, but you said you desired to know everything we did. You may not be pleased with being specifically 'tied up in all of it' but don't be so selfish as to place yourself higher than anyone else being threatened by this external menace.
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