He worries his tongue against his teeth again, closes the box and slides it to place into his bag.
"Two potentials," he offers. "The first, murkier and less likely to work. Along with all the other strange artefacts, our party has collected two undead body parts. One is a tongue, in endless stasis of sorts, that we know can summon a kraken. The other is a heart, still beating, that was used to seal a deal with the undead lieges. The tongue we stole from a captain whose mind had twisted, potentially related to exposure to said tongue. The heart, our party was asked to retrieve when we forcibly broke the deal a city had with the undead. They were trading endless weapons to the armies, who were then using them to attack other cities, in return for their own safety. The Merchant sent one of our number to find it and dig it up. So, two essentially undead body parts. We know Irenia needs to anchor herself to a source of magic the undead use. Perhaps these organs could have enough of that, and perhaps we could find a way to essentially bind her to one. The risk being... we have no idea why they remain living, what they do, who they belong to, or if some insane cult is shortly going to collect all of them and do something terrible with them."
Wrathion frowns, gathering up his tools.
"Option two, more dangerous, more likely to achieve something: mirrors. Mirrors are a known source of power. Mirrors grant wishes. Mirrors cured Haiva, but also likely broke his mind. Mirrors were experimented on in Ellethia, and likely destroyed Ellethia and started this whole string of disasters we're following after. Mirrors likely gave Matthias, The White Wanderer, the power we suspect he has to control and create undead. Which means they gave, in a manner of speaking, the undead the power they used to raise and control Irenia."
He shuffles his tools into a box, looks up and lofts an eyebrow at the Doctor.
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"Two potentials," he offers. "The first, murkier and less likely to work. Along with all the other strange artefacts, our party has collected two undead body parts. One is a tongue, in endless stasis of sorts, that we know can summon a kraken. The other is a heart, still beating, that was used to seal a deal with the undead lieges. The tongue we stole from a captain whose mind had twisted, potentially related to exposure to said tongue. The heart, our party was asked to retrieve when we forcibly broke the deal a city had with the undead. They were trading endless weapons to the armies, who were then using them to attack other cities, in return for their own safety. The Merchant sent one of our number to find it and dig it up. So, two essentially undead body parts. We know Irenia needs to anchor herself to a source of magic the undead use. Perhaps these organs could have enough of that, and perhaps we could find a way to essentially bind her to one. The risk being... we have no idea why they remain living, what they do, who they belong to, or if some insane cult is shortly going to collect all of them and do something terrible with them."
Wrathion frowns, gathering up his tools.
"Option two, more dangerous, more likely to achieve something: mirrors. Mirrors are a known source of power. Mirrors grant wishes. Mirrors cured Haiva, but also likely broke his mind. Mirrors were experimented on in Ellethia, and likely destroyed Ellethia and started this whole string of disasters we're following after. Mirrors likely gave Matthias, The White Wanderer, the power we suspect he has to control and create undead. Which means they gave, in a manner of speaking, the undead the power they used to raise and control Irenia."
He shuffles his tools into a box, looks up and lofts an eyebrow at the Doctor.
"The risk there is obvious."