I Assumed There'd Be Evil

Now I know you are probably a smart ass and wondering why I said I was bringing torches with me yesterday (if you are not a smart ass then this will be a regular explanation without indignation). Yes I can conjure fire, but maintaining conjured fire enough to keep a cave system well lit is about on par with those clowns in the park who balance an object on a thin pole (if those people have been eliminated in your time thank the gods this reference went over your head).  Its just difficult and entirely unneccessary when torches are built for this exact thing.

Anyway semantics aside I had my torches lit and started to make my way into the big scary cave of doom.  Which looked like a regular cave, albeit it with some weird markings outside in a language I didn't understand (though I did try and duplicate them as best I could with some paper I had available, what can I say I'm a scholar of evil). Once past the intial mouth of the cave (which looked recently unearthed, so apparently Valrym either neglected to tell me he closed the cave anyway, or nature had done it for him), it was a tight squeeze getting inside, but once inside it was fairly open and easy to navigate. I mean wide open, this cave was gigantic.  I could see the remnants of battles past as Valrym had informed me of, though they looked very ancient compared to how they looked when he'd seen them last I'm sure.

Outside of the ancient rusting weapons though? Nothing. A huge empty cave thats all I saw.  I was constantly expecting my torch to come across some new ancient horror only spoken of in madness tongues! Only to not find any of that at all, there was nothing in that cave except empty.  I felt on edge as I ventured deeper in waiting for this darkness city I'd seen in the thralls mind, but as I delved deeper and nothing was there I started to wonder if Valrym had made up this ancient enemy or something. I mean I'd fought the creatures, so they were at least partially real, but why had they not attacked after defeating the earth gods and their people? Who kept this threat at bay? It was the question on my mind as my first torch burned itself out and I lit up another just as I came across the entrance to the city.

It was as I had seen previously a massive stone thing underground, covered in the runes I'd seen above it looked like it had been molded from the earth not constructed.  I was on a cliff overlooking the structure and it was staggering.  Though again I noticed nothing down there, I know it was technically "the darkness" that was my enemy, but you'd think they'd show up in the light right? So there I was decending into a city of the darkness not actually being able to see the enemies I'd set out to destroy and starting to wonder if I hadn't drunkenly dreamed the whole thing up to begin with. Or as I like to call it, tuesday.