I've been hearing that toward the end of that <font color='#660000'>Ceremony of Blessing</font>, {@LinkCreature:16#2305#blood mages} came out from the castle's underground levels.<BR><BR> And supposedly...supposedly they have <font color='#660000'>blood stones</font>. They're power sources that ought to be in our hands, not theirs. Just look at the size of this stone... Countless lives... sacrificed for this stone...<BR><BR>The Blood Stone is a horrendous relic from evil vampirs of the past. As the name might suggest, the stone is essentially solidified blood—a powerful magic weapon wielded by vampirs of a bygone age.<BR><BR>I can't explain what the blood mages were doing with this stone, but it's important that we find out. If they've tapped into the Blood Stone... I don't even want to imagine.