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[[Harukita]] brought the chalice before the other gods. "I have sipped from [[Zek]]'s Chalice and gained the power to create undead. But I have not sipped overmuch, for I have learned from the past. It was foolish for one god to try to protect such a power. If I dank all of the Chalice, [[Vol]] would hunt me down and eventually destroy me. But if we ALL drink from the Chalice, we shall all have the power of undeath. [[Vol]] will never be able to destroy us all. We shall be bonded in evil, a partnership that shall span an eternity. Are you with me? Drink from the chalice!"
[[Harukita]]'s brothers quickly drank from the chalice. [[Ormorek]] drank too. But when the chalice was passed to [[Ilth Hale]], [[Harukita]] stopped her. "There is one condition," he said. "While you may be the master of this realm known as [[Acur]], I am the master of the Chalice. We shall all have a say in how the world is destroyed, but my voice shall call out louder than all others, including yours. Is it agreed?" With a shrug of her naked shoulder, [[Ilth Hale]] wordlessly agreed and drank the bitter power. A few sips remained in the Chalice, and so [[Ilth Hale]] flew to find [[Talerra]]. The goddess of depression was too weak to move most of the time, but on certain days [[Talerra]] would awaken and move with great power. [[Ilth Hale]] loved her and wanted her to be part of the covenant. Finding [[Talerra]]'s body lying face down in the muck, she parted [[Talerra]]'s lips and poured some of the power into her mouth. [[Talerra]]'s eyes fluttered open and she screamed, "no!" but it was too late: she had become part of the brotherhood of undeath. In a moment of rage, [[Talerra]] tossed the Chalice aside and began yelling at [[Ilth Hale]]. "How could you do this to me? You defiled the purity of depression! You marred me forever!" While the two gods argued, a lone figure sought out the Chalice. It was [[Zhia Lian]], the newly made goddess of whimsy and unpredictability. The door to [[Acur]] is unpredictable, and against tall odds [[Zhia Lian]] had been able to perceive the entrance to [[Acur]] and sneak in uninvited. She drank the last drop of power from the Chalice and then fled, giggling, out into the real world. And so [[Zhia Lian]] secretly joined the covenant, bringing a drop of whimsy and unpredictability to the undead. In time [[Harukita]] took the empty chalice back to the world, where it once again began collecting the souls of those show died under dark emotions. And the members of the covenant - all save [[Talerra]] - began creating undead to walk the world and spread darkness across the planet.
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