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Now his resolve for that decision grew with the news of what he believed to be goblins in the forest.
    How had they gotten so near without his knowing?  He would have to send out rangers with messages to his commanders at field, seeking answers to that very question.
    He watched his sons face, the emotions that were battling each other across it.  He would never be prepared for the information he had.  So it was now or never.
    "Dartein I need you to sit down.”  He waited to continue until after his son took a chair.  “After our conversation of the previous night I visited the Slumber Chamber to re-familiarize myself with the spells contained inside.  The spells are ancient, still original, and impossible to alter as the inscriptions have somehow protected themselves.  Now, I need you to know that I could add to the spell which would completely nullify the Noble blood inside your Chosen and her child.  She would return to human and the child would be human as well.  In those circumstances she would only undertake the normal risks associated with human child bearing."
    The Patriarch watched relief wash over Dartein's face.  "Father, that is amazing. I am so relieved that...."
    "Do not be relieved Dartein."  The Patriarch stood up from his chair, rose up tall and straight with a look that could cut through stone.  "I will not alter the Chamber."
    Dartein stood up and without fear yelled at his Father "I cannot believe you will not help me!  I cannot believe that you will let her die!  Let my love die!"  He turned to storm out the room, but found the door to be locked.  "Let me out Father!"
    "You WILL stay in this room and you WILL listen to what I have to say."  He had never raised his voice to his son in all the time he could remember.  And the shock of that was plain on Dartein's face.
    "Listen to me, son.  I have been using that Chamber for hundreds of years to swell the ranks of our race.  A race I created.  Created to battle unnatural creatures that threatened the lands around us.  Those creatures you found in the forest I believe are the same exact creatures.  They have come above ground again, and have found where we hid ourselves.  This is a day I always knew would come.  I have prepared for this for a long, long time."
    Mortul turned to the long shelves behind him.  He grabbed one very old book and laid it open on the desk in front of him.  He turned the book toward his son and began to turn the pages.  He paused at a drawing of the four original chambers on one page.  “We started with four.”  Then turning the page, the drawing changed to three complete Chambers and one that was melted.  “Here we journaled what happened to the fourth Chamber.”  Turning the page again the drawing now showed two complete Chambers, one chamber that was melted and one that was smashed to rubble.
    "I salvaged one of these two surviving Chambers after the war, the one I had created with my own hands.  The other is still buried far, far beneath the battle field near where we finished off the last of the hordes.  The way to that field has not been travelled in centuries.  And even if there were as easy way to get there, the Chamber could never be unearthed or moved."
    He sighed and continued.  "If I were to alter the spells in the Chamber we have then we could never again turn a human.  Those creatures will attack us someday again.  Maybe not in the next year or even the next few years, but they will as soon as they think they have an advantage.  I will continue to turn humans, I will continue to swell our ranks with Nobles and we will continue to keep their advantage over us from happening.  I cannot let these lands fall into war again!"
    He watched his son closely as the words all sank in.  He hated to disappoint this child of his Samana, this man who he loved with all his heart.
    "I am sorry, son.  There is no other way to undo what has been done by the Chambers spells.  Our sacrifices