The Wild Hate

The appearance of the Dimar, however, was soon echoed by the emergence of a far more terrible beast, which soon became known as The Wild Hate. Once again Eldorin sought out Corbin - another act of initiative which, unbeknownst to Eldorin, gives him greater reality by acting on his own will. Finding Corbin, Eldorin asked him what he was up to... Grudgingly, Corbin admitted that he had made a spell. Draegon had given him permission to make his tormentors sorry, and so he unleashed against them the essence of his anger in the form of a spell, a song he had heard that described his fury much too well to be ignored.....

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“Something lingers in the dark, waiting in a pool of shadow. Something tainted leaves a mark in the place it lies unseen. Crippled magic left behind grows in strength and grows in evil And its casters now would find it has grown foul and obscene. “Lightning splits the angry skies - cat and serpent locked in struggle Come too near to where it lies, feeding on the lightning’s fire. Now it takes them unaware, molds and shapes and twists and severs, Till within dark magic’s lair something rises from the pyre. “Something new is born this night, born in hurt and fear and anger, Creature formed of magic’s might, born to hate and rend and kill, Hunger nothing can appease, for it feeds on pain and dying. Everything before it flees lest they be caught by its will. “Something more than mortal hate, spoiled like a thing long left dead. Feeding on its own dark rot, basking in its dreams unclean. Something lingers in the dark, waiting in a pool of shadow. Something tainted leaves a mark in the place it lies unseen.” (from Songs of ElfQuest, by Richard and Wendy Pini)