Zorian also couldn’t help but take note of the clothes the seven mages were wearing: scarlet red robes that hid their faces behind a veil of supernatural darkness. How very familiar. This was exactly what Red Robe had been wearing. The leader of the ritual also had a stylized golden dragon embroidered on his robe.
Aside from the core of the ritual taking place at the center, there were only two other interesting features about the platform.
One was a rectangular stone slab reminiscent of an altar. Several grooves had been cut into the otherwise featureless rectangle, draining into several stone bowls attached to its sides. The slab was completely spotless, but numerous red splotches could be seen on the ground around it.
Right next to the altar was a haphazard pile of dead children. Zor
