Huarti lowers the opened safeguard scroll and lets the wind rake his red toga. Beneath the stone, the blue brood stirs again, a faint pulse answering the nomads' uneasy silence.
He turns his arcane sense downward. The ward below is not asleep, it is listening. Its blue thread presses against his claim like a test.
Elder Three
If your law is real, red lord, prove it here. The stone should know your name better than we do.
The nomad elders stiffen. Annika Mal shifts at Huarti's side, while the bound scouts hold still, waiting for his answer.
Huarti
Huarti does not waste breath. He raises the scroll over the warded ground and channels his presence into the seal.
Red light sinks through the dust. The blue pulse below falters, then steadies under his pressure, as if forced to kneel. The elders see it clearly now, his dominion reaches beneath the spires, and the brood below must answer through him.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure the brood’s hidden seal
✓ Quest Accepted
Learn the brood’s true name
“I finish securing the full rite”
SUCCESS (Legendary Arcana, rolled -1)
Huarti lowers his hand over the kneeling blue ward, and the flare folds inward like a snuffed flame.
The sigil beneath the spires settles into a sealed hush, its light thinning to a hidden thread that answers to him.
Annika Mal
It holds now. The nursery is covered.
Nomad Envoy
The safeguard is bound. No stray power leaks from it.
A second pulse stirs under Huarti's palm, deeper than the ward, and it carries a name the elders were not speaking a moment ago.
The seal answers him first, then the buried name settles into place.
Elder Three
Lord Huarti... do you hear it too?
Quest Complete
Secure the brood’s hidden seal