Fragment 2 is “Dark Witness”, a short story made up of material edited from the novel Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead at some point in the endless writing process. It took the form of a flashback, but I felt it adversely affected the pacing of the novel, so I excised it, leaving only truncated scraps of it in the final text.
“Dark Witness” tells the back-story of Tanuul-Aridor, chief acolyte of Lord Worjaren Rehemon of Dagest-Yanu — giving insight into the forces that molded him and recounting the purge that took place when the monstrous Dark God servant Eblamthezaik came to the court of High-Lord Zarth in Vornarca. It also features a cameo from the main antagonist of the novel, the sorcerer Worjaren Rehemon.
This is its first publication.
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