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// On our antagonist 
// Story: A Wayfinders Guide to Equestria 
// by Ellery Quinn 
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Later after I had sufficiently explained my-

Pardon the intrusion but I felt It would be a worthy use of my magic to intrude upon the narrative to explain myself more than just a "Cloaked figure with a skull hilted dagger with an obsidian blade and reptilian hands" maybe I should start at the beginning, my beginning. (Arvax, you aren't getting the story back until the next chapter.)

If you insist...

I'll just drop the bold text.

My name is Meerak. Kobold Wizard, Lych , and leader of the last fantastical monsters on the planet earth. There are not many of us left. Ettercaps, extinct. elves,  (drow I mean) endangered (oil drilling has an effect on the underdark you know!) Dragons, only one left (Saint George actually didn't slay the dragon, he made a deal to let it go in exchange for a fortune) . Vampires, werewolves, and ghosts are thriving  (Vlad the Impaler has held that over my head for decades.).  There are about 3,000 of us left compared to billions of humans. and dont get me into history, we didn't expect the Spanish inquisition. 

Eventually we sought out some gods to help us, a  an ascended lych that was killed by his top lieutenant with a sword he had made for him. A.K.A. Old one eye, one hand, god of forbidden secrets, guy who acererak kissed the *** of for several centuries, Vecna himself. He told us that our chance for salvation would come if we were patient. Same thing with the ruinous powers, so we waited...

Eventually I was doing a bit of light reading on monster summoning in a public library when I get a whiff of magic, the good stuff, old magic, and I see this immature boy, with a excited look on his face, along with some girl who seemed to be looking at him with a mix of trust and concern (probably about his sanity now that i think about our later encounters.) 

He was holding a sword with a strong aura of portal magic, so I decide to bring along my shadow bodyguards as I went to steal borrow the sword to bring my friends of this stupid rock of a planet, than he went through the portal, so I moseyed on through with him, though I did make sure to make myself invisible upon arrival and discreetly gated in my spellbook in an unoccupied corner of the crystal castle we had just been dumped in.  But I'll let my friend take back the narrative now.

To be continued...

Sheesh I hate that kobold.