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The Quorum's Bid for White Spire

With Momma Eeb dead and the non-aggression pact apparently gone with her, the wizards of Weeping Rose set about acquiring White Spire through other people.

The Quorum offers J'Muy refuge with White Spire as the price.

The story

With dead and the non-aggression pact apparently gone with her, the wizards of set about acquiring through other people. offered much to bend the knee and betray Eeb's wishes, and he means to show them what he thinks of the offer. It made J'Muy's asylum for his dark trolls conditional on helping deliver the city, and J'Muy, hoping to consolidate power in the , ran into how territorial is.

Not every dark troll priest followed him to Weeping Rose; some stayed to start a new life. Asylum was sought, service was demanded, and White Spire was aspired to. Whether the Quorum ever held the city, J'Muy got his refuge, or Hobgen delivered his answer, nobody in White Spire says.

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Another telling follows the four rivals seeking Momma Eeb's place after her murder leaves White Spire without its old authority.

The Succession of White Spire
Connections
  • The Quorum of Weeping RoseRivalryWhite SpireDota UnderlordsOnly in this telling

    The wizards want White Spire delivered to them and are buying help to get it, now that the non-aggression pact seems to have expired with . Ambition, not possession: the city is not yet theirs.

  • HobgenRivalryThe Quorum of Weeping RoseDota UnderlordsOnly in this telling

    They offered him much to bend the knee and betray Eeb's wishes. He means to show those wizards what he thinks of the offer.

  • J'Muy the WiseBargainThe Quorum of Weeping RoseDota UnderlordsOnly in this telling

    Asylum for his people, if he first helps deliver to the Quorum. Asked, not granted; demanded, not done.

  • J'Muy the WiseSet inThe WarrensDota UnderlordsOnly in this telling

    He hoped the Warrens would be a safe place to consolidate power.

  • J'Muy the WiseConfrontationEnnoDota UnderlordsOnly in this telling

    He had not accounted for how territorial Enno was.

  • HobgenServesMomma Eeb

    Momma Eeb's most feared lieutenant while she lived, and one of four claimants to her place now that she is gone.

  • EnnoRulesThe WarrensDota Underlords

    King of the scavengers' makeshift community, by a route the game states plainly: he poisoned the water supply.

  • The WarrensSet inWhite SpireDota Underlords

    The Warrens are the city's warrens and slums, where 's people scavenge.

  • The Quorum of Weeping RoseRulesWeeping RoseArtifact

    Weeping Rose governs itself and answers only to the Quorum. Few rules, obeyed without question; the is what failing to obey means.

  • EnnoAcquaintanceMomma EebDota Underlords

    Enno never stood at Momma Eeb's right hand and brought no business and no demons to her table, yet she respected him. He means to remind the city why.

  • Momma EebRulesWhite SpireDota Underlords

    Momma Eeb held White Spire's underworld from a throne the city still calls hers. She knew someone would come for her life and left instructions for whoever wanted her place; her death set off open gang war in the streets.

The game's own words about this cast
  • The Tyler Estate · Valve text

    Most of the magical world acknowledges the authority of the . But in we govern ourselves, answering only to , a senate of 31 powerful wizards. And while Weeping Rose is not home to many rules, the few we have are obeyed without question. Because to fail to do so is to be sent to the .

Sources
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  • Underlords loreDota Underlords client, dac_english.txt: DAC_Challenge_Streetfight_golems_Lore, DAC_Challenge_Streetfight_mage_warlocks_Quote, DAC_Challenge_Streetfight_warlocks_dark_trolls_Lore, DAC_Challenge_Streetfight_dark_trolls_Lore, dac_unit_neutral_troll_dark_frost_lore
  • Artifact loreArtifact Classic voice intro DCG_VO_dark_troll_chieften_intro: J'Muy leads his tribe toward Weeping Rose
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