Samudra's Journal

by vren55

Entry 66: Claiming to be Tethys?

Several decades ago now, as I have written in this diary, I killed a kelpie queen, just one of many. Albeit, she was an unusually smart queen, smart enough that I recorded her name, Tethys.

Today… she, or something claiming to be her led a number of attacks on our more remote outposts. I finally brought her into battle by setting a bait, gathering a large number of kelpie fry about to be culled. She took the bait, and very nearly succeeded in escaping with them, but some complicated tracking spells on the fry themselves allowed my forces to follow the kelpies and destroy them. It was a good thing I employed this tactic, because the tracking spells that we employed are quite short-lived

During the battle, I duelled the kelpie queen claiming to be Tethys. I cannot recall exactly how she looked like. But she… she had the gall to laugh at me as I fought her and declare there would be no way I could win, even if I killed her.

I doubt this queen was telling the truth. What is intriguing is that she knew about how I killed Tethys. Perhaps the survivors of Tethys’s escort managed to pass the tale on? Anyhow, she did her best to avoid being boiled alive, and tried to close in to use her fangs to bite my neck off.

I had to instead, use my hydromancy to prevent her from closing in and instead, use blasts of magic to batter her natural armor and concuss her. After that, I moved in for the kill and chopped her head off, just to make sure she was dead.

What is… slightly more worrying is the question of why. Why did this queen want to masquerade as Tethys? She has nothing to gain from it. To unsettle me? What a fool. Death is death, there is no coming back from it.

Comments

[nioniosbbbb]

I am inclined to believe each Kelpie queen devoured the last... But you said that didn't happen since they got the body who was unnaturally disintegrating. I suspect resurrection of some sorts tho I wonder how.

[TartarusFire]

Is it possible that the old god is using the ball of balefire as it's own focus? Just something to consider with all the unusual circumstances..