The Rumors Prove True

The news of Cairo's fall first spread like a rumor, but quickly cemented itself as fact.

The mightiest city in all the western world, and the bastion of law and decency, did not fall to a barrage of ballista and trebuchets. It didn't get crushed under heel of the marching of armies, or from a barrage of spells by their enemies most skilled of mages.

Cairo surrendered. Cairo laid down its arms, and opened its walls.

Why? That reason, too, spread like a rumor, and most folks dismissed it as such but the most prone to gossip. "Impossible!" That was the reaction any reasonable person would have to such farfetched tales told in whispers in the towns since the news had traveled south.

It was true, however. The reason Cairo had surrendered was because its champion, Umar Law, the Invincible, had turned. Sir Law had betrayed his city, and turned his most loyal of paladins against the very city that trained them. Against this force, the governors saw no possible solution but the surrender to Noa Wei, once the King in Chains, now the King of Both Worlds.

Umar Law now served Noa Wei.