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For the Naga explorers, life began to take a new and interesting turn. They had not expected for these new creatures, which eventually explained to the Naga, over many attempts to cross the bridges between their languages that they were called Shlievek, to be both peaceful and welcoming. The small party of Naga warriors quickly set up their own small community, in a series of both underwater and air bubbled tunnels. Eventually Captain Vurkul sent back a small number of Naga to relay the events over the last few weeks of the time with the Shlievek, and to send his recommendation that they become sos-fron, blood-kin, the highest form of friendship the Naga could offer, and had not had reason to offer since the time of the separate city states.

Though this message was indeed relayed to the Emperor Kaluas, it was later that day intercepted by the Master of Might, who was outraged that his suggestion for conquering the Shlievek was ignored, Kaluas had fully accepted Vurkuls suggestion of open peace and the messengers were to send this word back the exploration party, who were attempt to find a place for a Naga colony amongst the sub-terrain people. The Master of Might gathered together two hundred of his loyal followers, for in truth he could find no others who he would trust enough to betray the rulings of the Emperor and set out just a day after the messengers. However, even this number had some semblance of loyalty to the Emperor, and so the messengers were warned of the attack and swiftly carried the news back to Vurkul.

The captain knew there that his small group of only 60 warriors were no match of the Master of Mights far more elite force and he quickly went to the Shlievek for aide, for if the Naga explorers were killed and the Master survived, he would return to the Empire with a tale of the Shlievek slaying the explorers and the race would be plunged into war. Realising the threat for as great as it truly was, he attempted to with as great speed as possible warn the Shlievek as much as he could, before the Master arrived for battle.