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[Bohandas]

Yet Another Parable of the Abyss

There is a story tody in the Abyss of a country ensnared by the devils.

The baatezu had insinuated themselves into a country and manipulated its economy to be reliant on slavery for food production and thus convince the populace to support slavery, therefore ensnaring their souls for Hell.

Representatives of the planes of Celestia, and Arborea, and the Abyss followed the devils into this land to stop them.

The Celestial Archons came to the corrupted nation and insinuated themselves into the government as the devils had before them, and began a long, slow, and inneffectual process of reform.

The Eladrins of Arvandor came to the corrupted nation and began a piecemeal and ineffective process of sneaking slaves out one by one.

Then the wise Demons came to the corrupted nation. They slew the masters, and slave catchers, and any other living being - man or beast, slave or free - who happened upon them during the slaughter. They cut them into hundreds of pieces, and strung the bloody flesh onto necklaces. Then they burned the crops and all the stores of food, and they sowed the land with abyssal brambles whose poisonous thorns would fell any mortal who touched them.

Thus by the forces of the Abyss was the land freed of Devilish influence.