“We were looking for a source of power that might shatter the Intercessor’s grip on stories, and we have found one.”

I was too early to be relieved, I warned myself.

“So what is it, exactly?” I asked.

“Night,” Hierophant replied.

I blinked. Was it really going to be that easy?

“More precisely, Night as it was first granted to Sve Noc by the Gods Below,” Hierophant specified.

Ah, and there was the pinch.

“I shouldn’t need to tell you that pretty much all Night has passed from some Firstborn body at some point,” I pointed out.

The drow had been very ardent proponents for centuries of murdering each other for that power.

“Some, yes, but not all,” Masego said. “The Sisters have administered the resource since the beginning, Catherine. They still hold the power they used to create their shared godhead, which was bestowed directly by Below.”

- Book 7, Chapter 40: Resolutions