After a long delve through Azj-Kahet, the hunt for the fugitive leader of the self-styled Church of the Stars’ Embrace has finally come to an end. Promising lost and disenchanted Forsaken a ‘cure’ to undeath, Mother Leona and her inner circle oversaw the transformation of many Lordaeronian citizens into k’thir - and took great interest in the dreaded Black Blood for its potential as an agent in metamorphosis.
By means of
brutal, violent interrogationa little social engineering, the Irregulars learned from one of Leona’s men that the congregation had travelled to the Maddening Deep seeking the Blood’s gifts. Then they were approached with a second lead by a purported spy for the Severed Threads - who lured them into a cavern for reaping by an assassin from the Shadowguard, in retaliation for previous escapades.
Lieutenant Rotwild survived the attempt on his life, albeit slightly insulted about the small taskforce allocated to it, and resumed the hunt for the cult at once. By the time the Irregulars arrived in the Deep, the rest of the congregation had vanished - lost to the horrors of the Unseeming they had joined forever.
At last the unit cornered and confronted Mother Leona at the old Ascended harvesting grounds, minds wrestling the clutches of the Black Blood’s power. But the will of the Forsaken knows no equal, and though she began a horrific transformation, she was struck down before another soul could be claimed by the Unseeming.
With one of the Irregulars’ two targets in Khaz Algar eliminated, a second remains at large back in Hallowfall. For now the merry dead will leave Azj-Kahet behind, having procured new information on those instruments used to extract and harmonise the Blood.
They might have taken a couple of samples.