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    Fable - Ask Under The Desert Sun

    "Perhaps it is so," he nodded at Vica, lost in thought for a moment, "Perhaps it is also so that you remain a slave because you have not tried hard enough to earn your freedom." Ishak flashed a rueful smile. "Destiny can be cruel." Before he could say anything else Narsis interjected. Not for...
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    Open Chronicles Hunting Gods

    "Then I will show them the light of the sun." Ishak ibn al-Athir drew his sabre, falcata-edged blade gleaming as it caught the light. He murmured a righteous prayer and the weapon spontaneously caught fire. It was a supernal flame, seemingly unaffected by the ice mage's chill or necromantic...
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    Open Chronicles Hunting Gods

    "Templar? I know of this." Alaric was the first templar ibn al-Athir had met in the flesh, but many Cortosi crusaders were trained for a time by Radiant Church devotees. He knew of the templars by their fearsome reputation as exceptionally skilled warrior monks although the word Pariah meant...
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    Open Chronicles Hunting Gods

    "A northerner," comprehension slowly dawned on the Ragashan's face although he knew the Gulf of Liad only by name, "My forgiveness." The sword hand slowly eased from his pommel. Alaric's ignorance seemed genuine, he had a knack for that sort of thing, but it was the northerner's inquiries that...
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    Fable - Ask Under The Desert Sun

    "If that is Annuk's will," his voice was calm, measured, "Then it shall be so." Ishak's expression remained serene. He did not seem to mind the slave's venomous words. Were their positions reversed he too might harbor some bitter resentment towards the hand of fate. He coaxed his horse along in...
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    Open Chronicles Hunting Gods

    "I am but a humble servant of Annuk," his words were guarded around the stranger, "I go where he wills it." Ishak took his first proper look at this pale wayfarer. He didn't seem like a thrall of the dark goddess but appearances could be deceiving. Certainly his pallor reminded the Ragashan...
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    Open Chronicles Hunting Gods

    Vellim marked the farthest Ishak ibn al-Athir had ever journeyed from Ragash. Weeks ago he'd put a death cult to the sword in the desert wastes and sworn an oath to Annuk that he would find and destroy their dark master. That investigation had led him deep into foreign lands with strange...
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    Fable - Ask Under The Desert Sun

    Ishak ignored the slaver's curses, utterly assured that he was under no mortal threat. Narsis was as much a prisoner of Imperial decree as the nobleman. He would not dare risk the vizier's rebuke nor ibn al-Athir suspected was he keen to test his mettle against a truly capable warrior. He...
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    Fable - Ask Under The Desert Sun

    "Escorting slaves?" Ishak scowled, "This is beneath me." "No task is beneath a loyal subject of the throne so long as it serves the Empire." He glared daggers at the elven vizier but bit back his venomous retort. The unspoken accusation was clear. Emperor Gerra's magistrates still did not...
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