“That was a mean trick Abbathor.”
Without furniture or other creatures to create a frame of reference for scale comparison, the two ‘men’ seem like normal… normalish Dwarves, talking to each other in the gloom of an endless void. To a casual onlooker, it would be impossible to comprehend the colossal size of these two squat seeming figures.
“You needed an agent. I just made sure a suitably appropriate one was available to you, in the right place and at the right time.”
The first speaker glowers. The huge war-hammer held tightly in his large, clenched fist, glowing red hot.
“You possessed one of my high-priests and subjected that child to a horrific ordeal!”
The second Dwarf, larger but by dint of fatness rather than muscle, rolls his sunken eyes and smiles greasily.
“Relax my Brother; It was all just for show. Nothing actually happened beyond a little light exposure. No innocent little Dwarf boy was harmed in the making of this… escapade.”
Stroking his thick white beard with his free hand, Moradin considers his Brother’s weaselly words.
“Your cleverness is often useful and what you say is true; I did need an Avatar in the Fey realm, but your methods turn my stomach. You corrupt the good for your own nefarious purposes and leave your victims lessened or broken ever after.”
Jaundiced eyes flashing with a spark of indignation, Abbathor answers quickly, barely disguising the bite in his retort.
“I merely revealed your high-priest’s previously hidden and distasteful predilections. I didn’t create them. As for the child; I wiped all memories of the event from his mind. Only your pervert priest remembers what he almost did.”
The near Molten glow of Moradin’s war-hammer dims a little.
“And Banaal. You damaged his faith in me, even as I need him to do my bidding.”
The fatter and paler of the two Dwarven deities merely shrugs.
“Your young priest already had a strong connection to where you needed him to be and he was already searching for an excuse to leave the mountain. For the sake of saving the whole world; Good, Bad, Dwarven, Human and Elven, I’m sure he’ll find a way to overcome his exaggerated trauma.”
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