After striking a deal with Midnight, the Goddess of the Weave, Aaron left Charlotte in Dweomerheart in Elysium and returned to the Lands Between to prepare his next move.
The young lady hated having to part with Aaron so soon after their brief reunion, but all Aaron could do was hug her. Charlotte had to inherit Tzeentch's power, and she had to do it quickly. Now that Aaron had exposed the true nature of his ascension, the Chaos Gods were certain to act.
He and Imoen immediately returned to Dorn Royal Castle in the Lands Between.
The young high priestess was intensely curious about Aaron's Divine Realm, but once inside, she felt a little disappointed. It had neither the glittering splendor she had imagined nor the tranquil or thriving natural landscapes of Selûne or the Nature Pantheon.
The sky over Aaron's Divine Realm, the Lands Between, was perpetually shrouded in dense, dusky yellow fog, with torrential rain pouring down. The sturdy, unadorned Royal Castle stood empty, with everything still waiting to be rebuilt. It lacked both petitioners and a Divine Realm army. If anywhere could be called lively, it was the Holy Trinity Succubus Nun Academy outside the vast castle's southeastern corner and the Absolute Good Palace to the southwest. The Little Auspicious Grass King had moved almost the entire Absolute Good Palace from the Sunset Lands into the Lands Between, bringing considerable vitality to this land.
If there was anything else, it was the Age Oak rising from the center of the Royal Castle.
"My storehouses hold over eighty million gold coins of various kinds, a million units of Chaos Divine Favor blessings, two hundred thousand templates for granting low-level divine magic, thirty Heavenly Tribulation Spells, and countless pieces of Chaos equipment." Aaron patted Imoen on the shoulder. "Go