"You dare pronounce judgment on me?" Vordakai hisses, the skin peeling back from his bared teeth... then as sw

"You dare pronounce judgment on me?" Vordakai hisses, the skin peeling back from his bared teeth... then as swiftly as it came, his features fall still. "Though there is truth in your words. Curses strike harder if you empower them with the piece of essence of the one being cursed. And I put my very self in my name — the name of a ruler and a vanquisher! The name I was cursed with… I was blind back then, more blind than I am now. And I lost the greatest gift I ever received from my patrons — the daemons. Will I have to pay for such negligence?"