#124 - The Blooming of the Grave Cinquefoil
The bud shall bloom With petals five But petals all shall fall. When petals reunited are Then blooms the grave cinquefoil. * * * Huge piles of fresh bones were heaped over the steps of the Obelisk of Self-Assessment. Despite himself, Elohiim the Ineffable licked his lips at the smell of fresh blood. The forces of the Hieratic Magistracy of the Revenant Chancellor had withdrawn into the shadows, though he could sense them nearby. He folded his wings and knelt before the Bone-tithe Nexus - it seemed a fitting posture, considering the honour about to be bestowed upon him. And so, human torso hunched over his monstrous lower body, the Vengorian Lord waited in the darkness. Elohiim, Primogenitor of the Cinquefoil, did not know exactly for whom or what he was waiting. What he did know was that Nagash himself had directed him to Ulgu promising that there he would 'find his son: Calyx V': The Fifth Petal of the Rose, the last remaining soul-shard of King Gulaab Kaphool, to whom Elohiim...
