"Yurtrus! Why haven't those damned betrayers fallen ill, wailed, and died in heaps?"
The Orcish chief god, Gruumsh, glared furiously at a massive figure whose entire body was covered in rotting flesh, pus-filled sores, and maggots. Only his hands remained pale and whole.
There was no need to ask. This was the god of plague and death in the Orc Pantheon, and once one of Talona's greatest rivals.
Since they had both been Lesser Divine Powers at the time, each regarded the other as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, yearning to destroy, devour, and merge with the other to become an Intermediate Divine Power.
Unfortunately, the struggle between their similar portfolios had always remained on the verge of eruption and had never truly begun.
The reason was simple: most of the time, they had to obey the chief gods they served.
Yurtrus had submitted to Gruumsh ever since the day he was born, while Talona had served the God of Murder, Bhaal, for a very long time.
Later, however, after Raymond appeared, Talona successfully completed her transformation after enduring a series of painful trials. This infuriated and enraged the Orcish god of plague and death, and he came to hate Raymond as well.
Thus, when Gruumsh decided to move against Raymond, Yurtrus became the most enthusiastic participant and the one who offered the most advice.
In particular, it was this fellow who had devised the vicious plan to use corpses to create plagues and diseases, overwhelm Ilinwuer, and kill Thrall and all his followers.
The foul-smelling flies and maggots amid the mountains of corpses, along with the Undead Creatures that rose under the concentration of Negative Energy, had originally all been intended as part of the means to wipe them out.
Unfortunately, under the