"Summoned," Ethlyn replied. It was disturbing, not least because of the lurking of robed cultists that seemed to be underpinning the disastrous events in her homeland over the past few years. "It had worshippers--they kidnapped people from the town and did terrible things to them to bring it forth."

In the dark, it wasn't so easy to think about the events of that day--with the specters laid to rest in front of them, it came back too clearly to the mind's eye. "I can't conceive of why they would even want to call such a ruinous beast down upon the town."