A huge reason why it took Scargill so long to get through Gorum and finally move forward towards His Destiny in Kapanga, was the fact that while Empress Gorum was indeed problematic and was every bit able on a physical-sense, in, a physical-sense. To stop Him and His Plane-Companions if that is what it came down to.
   Was the fact that she'd truly done a great job of expanding Gorum to the point that unlike Beslet, which was bordered by Her Enemies and always in some sort of peril from one direction or another.  

Empress Gorum The Last had done what Her Predecessors had failed to do, which was actually a huge deal for Scargill and a huge problem for anyone who honestly wanted to topple Her. The Gorum-Line of Kapanga had been banished from the Kapanga-Queendom after losing a civil war for the Right to Rule. While Her Ancestors could have been executed on the spot, Their Execution, would have caused further unrest and worse than that Their Line had already Usurped the Original Ruling Family to even gain the power they now had. And at the time there was still plenty of supporters of the Original Ruling Family that wouldn't have missed out on the chance to destroy them all and retake the Throne and restore the Rightful Ruling Family back to power.
​   So it was because of this very real threat that Queen Kapanga's Ancestors went on to curse Empress Gorum's and then banish them from the region with any and all who would follow them!

This would settle matters for the moment and each successive Kapanga-Queen used Their Birthright to spy-n-scry on the roaming Gorum-Line until they finally saw something that they did not expect to happen. 
   Aside from the fact that the Gorum and Their Followers were able to successfully get out of the entire central-region of the 9th-Plane. They eventually began making Their Way around the 9th-Plane where at first it appeared they were searching for a new place to call home. And time-n-time again the successive Kapanga-Queens saw the Gorum, and Their False-Claims of being a queen. Go into one queendom after another, begging.
   Begging for food.
   Begging for shelter.
   Begging for clothing.
   Begging.
   Until around the End of the 2nd-Age when the Last Kapanga-Queen of the 2nd-Age saw the fact that the Then Gorum-Queen, was DIRECTLY LOOKING BACK AT HER AND WATCHING HER, watching Them...!
   This of course revealed that every since they'd been booted out of Kapanga, they either had ALWAYS BEEN WATCHING THE KAPANGA-QUEENS, or worse, they DEVELOPED THE ABILITY.
   To watch the Kapanga-Queens.
   This revelation caused the Last Kapanga-Queen of the 2nd-Age to STOP. Watching the Gorum, which allowed for the Gorum to either accomplish Their Objective or They'd already accomplished Their Objective.
   All of the roaming and begging and such was nothing of the sort, which Gola-Jun revealed to Scargill almost from the onset of meeting Him. 

What the Gorum had actually been doing.
For literally... Thousands of years...!
In an...?
Almost ironic sort of way, things of this nature.
Is, and are, what earth's Counterstrike and its member-nations, fear the most, because...?

   Humans...?
Human-beings, don't live thousands of years, where literally the very first Gorum-members who'd lost and been banished!?
   Were now walking with and working with, entirely new generations of Gorum! Not just passing down fables of how they'd been banished, how they'd been, defeated!
   But these were the actual. Fuckin. PARTICIPANTS!!!!!
So they weren't giving Their Heirs, Their Children, Their Descendants, NOTES! NO!? They were giving Them first-hand, live-accounting, having lived the Life and Lived Through the Loss, which is completely unheard of no matter how it is attempted by human-hands. It's not even close!

   And it is things like this, something as simple as the History of the Gorum-Family of Kapanga. That pushes Counterstrike to have to admit that every possible measure must. Be. Taken!
   To keep any further intrusions from Underworld-Realm or any fuckin place else!

   Off of earth, because...?
What the Gorum had actually been doing...?
Was searching for anywhere.
And everywhere.
That were rumored or known to contain any kind of gate-portals.... 
   And what they did was.
   Come into those areas and queendoms, hat-in-hand and Their Tails-up-Their-Own-Asses.
   In order to verify if that place truly possessed a gate-portal.
   And while the Kapanga-Queens may have felt as though the Gorum were not of "Royal Blood". The 9th-Plane was and still is the Heart of the Quwari-Empire and the Great Betrayers for that matter as well. And even segmented, fragmented, disjointed and disarrayed!?!?!?
   News was known of the displacement of the Original Ruling Line at the Heart of the 9th-Plane. And more than enough of the ancient artifacts and arcane means to determine the CURRENT RULERS of the Quwari-Queendom still existed and still exist to this day!
   And each time these queendoms and chieftains tested the Gorum. They of course, passed these tests and verified that indeed They Were and Are, banished members of the current queenship! 
   And with each time they were then able to gain the trust of said queens and Her Royal Court and those chieftains and Their Advisers and Landladies! And each time they accepted the Gorum in and lowered Their Guards and every single time. Without fail. Without falter. And without hesitation or a hitch!
   The Blue Whore Demon of Gorum-Family was unleashed at the perfect appropriate hour.
   And none survived....

   Whatever means of interdimensional and dimensional-travel they possessed was utterly obliterated. Along with those who lived there so that none could send words of warnings to any others whom the Gorum would visit next. And the Blue Whore Demon of Gorum-Family would ride out and lay waste to every town and every village and any city that had escaped the destruction of Their Queenships Capital-City.
   The Landladies of Their Chieftains found themselves burned alive in the blue flames of the Blue Whore Demon of Gorum-Family. And she cut down women, children, elderly, innocent, obnoxious and ignorant alike!
   And so Gola Jun had to warn Scargill that if He was to stand any chance of defeating and destroying Empress Gorum!? Then He would have to find a way to either kill the current Blue Whore Demon or find a way to win Her Over to His Side. But Gola Jun warned Scargill in no uncertain terms that if He did NOT find a way to deal with Her!?
   Then she would most definitely deal with Him and His Ilk.....

One of the biggest hurdles in Scargill's journey was getting from the 10th-Plane to the 9th-Plane where the former heart of the Quwari-Empire awaited Him and His Destiny. However the gate-portal city to get from the 10th-Plane to the 9th was under the control of Gorum. And this was one of the few times that Scargill had ever encountered any queendom or empire that ACTIVELY RULED BOTH SIDES OF THE GATE-PORTAL....
   That he needed to pass through.
   Gorum, was actually ruled by Empress Gorum, who was actually part of the Ruling-Line of Kapanga who'd lost its battle for the throne. Thus it would be Empress Gorum who would be anxiously awaiting Scargill as a member Of The Blood. Where she fully expected His Support in leading Gorum to ravage across the 9th-Plane until they reached Kapanga and removed the False-Empress and placed Him on the throne, with Empress Gorum acting as His 2nd.
    Needless to say, Scargill didn't agree to any of this and eventually found Himself struck in Gorum until he was finally able to find those who would help Him in REMOVING Empress Gorum. And then acting as His Regency until He returned to reclaim the place.
    He eventually found the perfect person to help him get rid of Empress Gorum;
The Regent of Gola-Province, Lady-General Gola Jun.

Gola Jun along with a host of others would assist Scargill and His Plane-Companions in defeating Empress Gorum, although it would cost Him a century of time before he could finally accomplish Her Removal.
   Gola Jun would prove time-n-again invaluable and Her Province would serve as His Primary support as He was "consigned" to Gorum-Proper and its capital-city castle of Gorum-Prime. 
   In the End with Empress Gorum and Her Bitches defeated, Scargill made Gola Jun the new ruler of what she called the former Gorum, Shujin. Which is Scargill's first name.
   Gola Jun then became the First Queen of Shujin and she was placed in charge of maintaining Scargill's territory until he returned triumphant after taking the throne of Kapanga. Gola then changed Her Family-name to Shujin and has ruled the region ever since. Whether Shujin and Her Queen still exist is unknown at this time as Scargill has been bogged down in the heart of Old Quwari-Imperial Land and unable to maintain any contact with Her.
     However it is of note that it was because of this very possibility that Gola Jun was chosen to rule and remain Their instead of becoming one of His Plane-Companions and journeying onwards with Him. Her province of Gola was on the outskirts of Lower-Gorum on the 10th-Plane and often had to contend with invasions and limited support-supplies and even communications from Empress Gorum and Her Royal Court during Gorum's existence. Prior to Scargill's departure, she accompanied Him on a number of campaigns to conquer and destroy threats bordering the newly founded Shujin. Gola Jun was or still is, a skilled milpol-expert and able to hold her own on the military and political battlefield.
    Like Empress Gorum she is an Elder-Quwari, making her powerful enough to fight Scargill Himself along with His Best Two-Bitches, Kanesha and Shaquita-Star. Unlike Empress Gorum however she was not ruled by obsessively-arrogant ego. And thus she knew when to break-off a fight when she saw, sees, that she's in danger. Like Kanesha and Shaquita-Star when they were whitewashed in Beslet by the Zuren. Gola Jun found herself being used strictly as a powerful borderguarding-bitch. Where Empress Gorum forgot that She would be the first to ever encounter ANY who were Of The Blood. And centuries of non-recognition and neglect would be the basis for Gola Jun to easily opt to follow ANY Of The Blood, if They Decided that Empress Gorum needed to go. Gola Jun is also believer of the Destroyed Vudune-Sect, but NOT a practitioner. This would play a massive role as well, as the Last Vudune Sect Leaders were able to make contact with Her and aid in convincing Her to abandon Her Loyalty to Empress Gorum....    

A former lead-general and Adviser of the Thezben-Family of Beslet. Svarda is the Wife of Svardi and is a Zuren Whore Demon who first came into contact with Scargill after Him and His Parents forced their way through the gate-portal of Volta to reach Beslet without permission. Causing Volta to pursue and ultimately attack Beslet's gate-portal and Beslet itself.
   While Scargill's parents died, Scargill survived and was conscripted into the Beslet-military as repayment for the damages done by Volta Forces in pursuit of Him and His Parents.
   Svarda was consulted by Her Mytama, Lady Thezben Reka. Who was desperate to find a means to survive a surefire death-march that the Beslet-Royal Court was about to hand down to Her and Her Army. To face off against The Illama-Family of the Queendom of Kuvara, where Lady Thezben had been repeatedly defeated by Illama-Family. But due to the fact that Her Thezben-Family Army was always larger, the exertion of getting through Them always left the Illama-Family and its famed married Ma-Generals of Gentara and Greta!?
   Exhausted from battling through the hoardes of Lady Thezben's mass-number of trashwhore-troops! 
   Gentara, a far superior Lady on all fronts and all terms in comparison to Reka. 
   Had developed an insane obsessed-hatred for Reka and Her Family. Because of the fact that Beslet itself was like Reka herself. A queendom that only existed due to the fact that it held large tracts of land and an overabundance of high-endurance Whore Demons who really couldn't fight for shit! But could certainly fill up the ranks-n-flanks as pure-D cannon fodder!
   Gentara saw Reka and Beslet itself as a prime example of a bunch of unworthy-bitches who had an abundance of drones and access to resources that they'd been able to steal their way to during the inception of Their Queendom. But in all actuality they were a bunch of talent-less, spineless, cowards!
   Who used waves of Whore Demons-n-Devils to hide behind and were only able to exist simply because they could outlast Their Neighboring Queendoms. But could not actually defeat said queendoms because they were too fuckin incompetent to mount effective offensive campaigns against them!
   Svarda, along with Her Wife Svardi, constantly spent the decades trying to find superior talents to fill out the Thezben-Family Military-Forces with quality commanders, to no avail. The simple fact of the matter was that Beslet was a massive queendom filled with Zuren who enslaved any and all that they could and then used the enslaved as a means to power Beslet, or at least... keep it from falling.
   Svarda realized decades before Scargill's arrival that a few centuries of existence had pretty much put the word out that Beslet was not the place to be or to go. And since it sat on the edge of the plane and was surrounded by its smaller rival queendoms. They could not get out to recruit superior-talents from beyond the encircling queendoms. Thus they had to maintain good ties with Volta and do Their Best to recruit from Them.
   Svarda had attempted to warn Her Mytama Reka that the Volta had only agreed to carry out raids and assistance on the Their End. Because they'd been using Beslet as the cover for Their Own Raids of those around Them and then BLAMING THEIR RAIDS on Beslet. 
   Reka's failure to address this within the Beslet-Royal Court prior to the court turning on Her and Her Family. Would be the catalyst and cause for why They were ultimately assigned the task of defending against and ultimately taking, Kuvara-Queendom. 
   The Fact that Reka had continuously failed to heed Svarda's counsel, had undermined Her Faith and Trust in Reka, a problem that would never be able to be solved once Thezben-Family fell out of favor with the Beslet-Royal Court.

So even as Scargill was making His Way with His Parents from the Lower-Planes towards His Eventual Fated Meeting with Svarda and Her Wife Svardi. Svarda was wavering in Her Effectiveness while Her Wife was trying to convince Her that Their Mytama Reka had some grand scheme and understanding of the situation.
   Which ultimately proved to be wishful-thinking on the part of Svardi.
   And the nail in the coffin of Svarda, as far as Her Own Ability to be a skilled advisor. 
   Meanwhile the Beslet-Royal Court continued to force Thezben-Family to defend against Kuvara's Illama-Family. Where it was Gentara who figured out that all she had to do was keep attacking and eventually Reka and Her Trashwhores would be reduced to dirt!
   Gentara's Wife, Greta, correctly saw that Thezben-Family was on the outs with its own government and rulership. Because even though they'd proven to be only able to stop Her and Her Mytama Gentara. They always. LOST. 
   And it was only because of the fact that Illama did not have enough troops to risk continuing on towards Beslet, that they always had to turn back. 
   Kuvara?
   Was a small-queendom. 
    With Illama-Family being its strongest military-family.
    But part of the reason why Kuvara was able to keep going forward was because it was a queendom of Ma-Whore Demons. However they could only engage in ONE offensive campaign at any time and they often waited till news of the other encircling queendoms attacking Beslet, that they too moved against Her.
    Greta cooked up a scheme that was designed for the decades to wear down and wear out Thezben-Family with the intention of destroying Their Psyche-Spirits so that this way even Their Numbers would not matter! 
     Svarda correctly saw through this but Her Words fell on deaf ears both in Her Home with Svardi and within Their Mytama's House with Reka. And so the stage was set for what would be the end of Thezben-Family but ironically the beginning of Svarda-n-Svardi along with the survivors of Thezben-Family. When Svarda was able to use Her Last Ounce of Influence to get Reka to personally visit Scargill. Who'd been drafted into Thezben-Family's Army by way of Khana Greetly.     A general within Thezben-Family, but the head of the Thezben Sub-Family of Greetly. 
    Svarda correctly saw that Khana had come to Reka strictly for permission to bring in Scargill but solely for the purpose of saving HER OWN ASS AND THAT OF HER ARMY ONLY.

Whereas Svarda's Wife Svardi, is loyal to a fault.
Svarda?
Is NOT​. 
   While Svardi did not see what the point was for looking in on nor questioning why a low-ranking mediocre general like Khana Greetly was groveling for the chance to go check the conscripted-ranks for additional officers to add. 
​   Svarda understood that Khana was just like everyone else, including Her Wife and Their Mytama Reka herself.
   They all knew that they were about to march out to do battle with Gentara and Greta and this time none of Them were going to be coming back. And while Zuren-pride was keeping Them all quiet, it was clear to Svarda that Khana had decided that Zuren-pride doesn't undo the Fact that walking directly into death willingly!? When other options were available!?

Svarda correctly understood that Khana must have found someone that she believed would allow for Her and Her Bitches, to survive! And when Svarda began sniffing around she found Scargill with Khana. And Svarda, was sure that Scargill had caught Her snooping! But did not reveal shit to Khana, which got Her to wondering if Scargill was making it clear that he either had no faith in Khana or that he wanted to meet Reka or that He Intended to ESCAPE!
    In the midst of the battle and be about His Business.
    Svarda spent what would essentially be Her Last Time, honestly being an "Open" Advisor. 

When I came up with the Scargill storyline it was and is something where Underworld-Realm itself and its various parts are actually QUITE OLD. Since I invented the story-setting way back in 2003, but this realm and its inhabitants had been introduced way back in My High School days. 
   So when I decided to finally IGNORE any more distractions and get to work in turning all of these various stories and storylines into what you've been reading bits-n-pieces of now. It was time for me to introduce new characters into these old places, while also retaining some of the original characters from way back when.
   For Scargill to GET from where He was within HELL.
   To where He IS when the reader is introduced to Him.
   As I've stated before, His Plane-Companions would have to be a critical part of Him and His Journey. And just as the Minotaur-Matrons Kanesha and Shaquita-Star dominate the frontlines for Scargill;

The Zuren Svarda and Svardi assist Scargill with Their Ability to generate-&-manipulate massive amounts of arcane-energy;

This has allowed for Scargill and His Plane-Companions to quickly dispatch hordes of grunt-level Whore Demons and Devils and quickly force their way through areas that simply could not be bartered with for safe-passage. While at the same time areas with actual standing-armies and such that would not allow them to pass were quickly put on notice that even if they were to kill Scargill and His Group. The losses would be too heavy to justify not having trying to talk to them first beforehand.
   Svardi has made it Her Business to focus on large-n-small-scale landscaping-attacks! While of course Her Wife Svarda is skilled in large-n-small-scale aerio-attacks!
    Unlike Kanesha and Shaquita-Star who are Minotaur-Matrons from Beslet and were heavily discriminated against because of the fact that they are Minotaur-Matrons. Svarda-n-Svardi are Zuren Whore Demons who were the rulers of Beslet and both Svarda-n-Svardi were generals of the army that Scargill was drafted into when he had to repay Beslet after Beslet-Military had to repel Volta-Forces who were in hot pursuit of Scargill and His Parents when they crossed from Volta to Beslet WITHOUT, permission by Volta. 
   Zuren's by nature are haughty-n-arrogant, which tends to cause people to believe that they cannot fight or would not dirty their hands in combat. Nothing is of course further from the truth. Svardi, like Her Wife, can be a pain-in-the-ass due to Her Snobbish-attitude, however? This has become a CRITICAL RUSE which has come in handy throughout Their Journey. Because Svardi-n-Svarda have had to quickly learn that while among Their Own Kind, when they are in command-n-control, that shit might be fine then, but?!
   Zuren's aren't necessarily liked even amongst the rest of the Great Betrayers due to Their Stank-Attitude. Zuren's are especially despised by Minotaur-Matrons and Ma-Matrons, whom Zuren's have historically manipulated and usually find ways of gaining command-n-control over, even though Minotaur-n-Ma Matrons are actually stronger than them.
   Svardi was the first one to suggest to Scargill the fact that Zuren's are naturally persuasive and possess passive-abilities to ensnare-n-enthrall others in a multitude of ways be it; speech, eye-contact, body-language and even pheromones.
    Svardi has honed her tele-empathic abilities and merged them with Her Zuren-abilities and specialized in empathic-control. She's also learned to lace her arcane-attacks and physical-attacks with empathic-energies, thus!? She can deliver a blast of arcane-energy that inflicts damage while also attacking the target with depression!
    While Svardi initially started off as a manipulative-cunt! Who used to do shit to people strictly for shits-n-giggles!
   The Reality of travelling across HELL and seeing first hand the damage that a dysfunctional and disorganized HELL has done to ALL HELLIONS. She has come to the proper conclusion that their entire species was a bunch of assholes who used to waste Their Time fucking with other dimensions and those within them when they could have been perfecting THEIR OWN DIMENSION AND THEMSELVES the way that she has honed Her Own Abilities.
   Although she does have experience as an actual general, she has had to admit that she was not only a very shitty general. But it was her shitty disposition that magnified the failures of her troops. She spends her time helping keep Scargill abreast of battlefield situations and relays messages as needed. But she does not take command because quite frankly she isn't and wasn't very good at it. Her and Her Wife are always a direct indication of where Scargill is, MOST. Of the time. Since they rarely part ways with Him unless it is due to some scheme or necessity that they do so..... 

Shaquita-Star is the frontline partner of Kanesha;

And like Kanesha she is a Minotaur-Matron Shifter, which was another large reason behind why the two of them were being intentionally discriminated against by Beslet's military command-n-forces! This however would prove to be a MASSIVE BLESSING for when Their Myzama, Scargill. Was forced into military service in order to work off the debt incurred to Beslet when they had to save His Ass after him and his parents had blasted their way through the gate-portal of Volta! And Voltan Forces pursued and invaded into Beslet!
   While Kanesha is known more for Her Prowess to literally alter the battlefield by launching raids against enemy-CO's and VIP's and killing them! 

Shaquita-Star is known for Her Ability control the field of battle and create the openings needed for Kanesha to be able to launch her raids. 
   Shaquita-Star had made it Her Business to appear to be the more dangerous of the two and in some ways she is and in others she isn't. She has the capabilities to draw large numbers of enemy-VIP's and CO's to Her and effectively keep them tied up with Her. Which in turn allows either Kanesha to then raid other enemy-officers who would normally be rear-guard or support! 
   Thus cutting off any chance of reinforcements.
   While Shaquita-Star then has the backup of Scargill himself and the likes of Svarda-&-Svardi, who can quickly deal out death to those that had become entangled with Shaquita-Star.

Shaquita-Star is known for Her Endurance and Her High-Defensive Abilities. She is a shrewd strategist and is at her best in the midst of actual battle. Like Kanesha, she does not normally talk to or interact with anyone outside of Their Myzama Scargill's Plane-Companions. Unless they are placed directly under Her and Kanesha's command.
   Since she is a Minotaur-Matron she tends to hide the fact that she studies milpol-matters, mostly centered around ways that Her Myzama Scargill can gain control over whatever region He has currently landed in. She sees the retaking of Kapanga as Her Myzama's birthright and has been diligent in keeping Him from remaining in any place outside of what once was the heart of the Quwari Empire....

The last two-weeks at the dayjob have literally had me working a number of 24-hour shifts and leaving no room for anything else except for working there and getting things done. Then coming home, eating, passing out and then quickly going RIGHT BACK IN TO WORK!
   But now that things are FINALLY simmering down I can get back to work on Williams Works and specifically, the Scargill-storyline.
    So I've been up since 4am EST and I've been working on His Plane-Companions and as I've been doing so I've also been working out the intricacies that allowed for Scargill to pick-up these lovely-ladies and why exactly didn't His Parents have any plane-companions along with Him.
   As I was typing it all out and looking over both written and typed notes. It became obvious why His Parents didn't have plane-companions and it was because they themselves were powerful enough but also their race, as Hellions, was problematic enough too. A pair of powerful LOWEST-LEVEL Hellions who were TRAVELLING UP from their normal planes to the weaker ones was already troublesome enough. Adding plane-companions while of course having to traverse across tracts of land-sea-n-sky that was either held by no one or controlled by some bitch who was already paranoid trying to hold onto whatever she had.
   Then here comes some Lower-Level Hellions with a small band of handpicked Whore Demons that have the skill and power output to either wreck whatever the Land-Lady has or to aid Her Enemies in exchange for whatever Scargill's parents might want or need. His Parents decided against bringing anyone from Their Homeland as plane-companions because they knew it would simply make matters worse in too many ways due to the mass INSTABILITY that was spread all throughout HELL itself.
    But once they died, Scargill knew and understood he could not finish the rest of the journey alone, regardless of whether or not he was "more powerful" than those around Him. His Parents had wisely taught Him about how everything is relative. And while he may have more power, those around Him would always have MORE PEOPLE. AND, the lay of the land. Because of course, THEY LIVED THERE. So they would of course know about the tracts of terrain that he was ultimately JUST TRYING TO GET ACROSS!
    So when he ended up being forced into the Beslet-Army, it allowed Him to take in and learn not only about Beslet but the actual region around Him, but also!?
    It allowed Him to gain His Plane-Companions.
    Starting with Minotaur-Matron Kanesha.
​   And that is what I am working on now..........