the funny thing about dracul i have noticed? we have never truly lied to our followers, our enemies and those we KNOW just by looking at them...and giving them...misleading...information, but never a true lie. ironic don't ya think, that a being of darkness is more truthful then the lady of the lake herself?
I read it and I mean why everyone is murder happy ?
the grail mages are literally the only magic force we are going to get for now. I don't mean capturing all of them. I meant 20 , or so so we can try to convert them like the dragon lord , their are bound to be disillusionment among them.
the fay is a slim shot I admit, but from the lexicon ,and wiki she died of old age multiple times so she knows that the lady is an elven goddess and is is ultimately manipulating her. the lady is the only thing keeping her alive at this point .plus she is the strongest human mage alive at this time period except the ones in china. and japan maybe .
that is mainly my reason of favoring capture conversion after this battle her hold and image will be broken in the heart of all who fallow her . some would be desperate to fallow some one its better us then the other gods (except sigmar ) so we can reap the benefits of the foundation she built .
I read it and I mean why everyone is murder happy ?
the grail mages are literally the only magic force we are going to get for now. I don't mean capturing all of the I meant 20 , or so so we can try to convert them like the dragon lord , their are bound to be disillusionment among them.
the fay is a slim shot I admit, but from the lexicon ,and wiki she died of old age multiple times so she knows that the lady is an elven goddess and is is ultimately manipulating her. the lady is the only thing keeping her alive at this point .plus she is the strongest human mage alive at this time period except the ones in china. and japan maybe .
that is mainly my reason of favoring capture conversion after this battle her hold and image will be broken in the heart of all who fallow her . some would be desperate to fallow some one its better us then the other gods (except sigmar ) so we can reap the benefits of the foundation she built .
i can follow that, especially since Lilieath is pretty damn naïve for a goddess, like she really fucked over almost everyone during the end-times to try and "restart the cycle", which was both idoitic and completely unnecessary. also even if we do manage to get them on our side, which while unlikely, i would say that IF we do so, the morgan would probably get some form of crazy longevity, most likely draconic traits from us or something.
I read it and I mean why everyone is murder happy ?
the grail mages are literally the only magic force we are going to get for now. I don't mean capturing all of them. I meant 20 , or so so we can try to convert them like the dragon lord , their are bound to be disillusionment among them.
the fay is a slim shot I admit, but from the lexicon ,and wiki she died of old age multiple times so she knows that the lady is an elven goddess and is is ultimately manipulating her. the lady is the only thing keeping her alive at this point .plus she is the strongest human mage alive at this time period except the ones in china. and japan maybe .
that is mainly my reason of favoring capture conversion after this battle her hold and image will be broken in the heart of all who fallow her . some would be desperate to fallow some one its better us then the other gods (except sigmar ) so we can reap the benefits of the foundation she built .
Again, like I said before, i don't think we have anyway of keeping the mages from using their magic so even keeping 20 would not be a good idea. If there is a way we are able to keep them from using magic after we capture them and I have just missed it then I will add to capture some of them if that way is pointed out to me. Which you have not done yet. So I still think having 20 or so mages captured is a security risk.
MRoy they either join or die they aren't VIP , The Amber Trance then Abulla's Snare and other spells from mages or the old fashion way blunt trauma to the head .
MRoy they either join or die they aren't VIP , The Amber Trance then Abulla's Snare and other spells from mages or the old fashion way blunt trauma to the head .
Yup which is why I'm hoping we can have the forest dragons remake the woods...even if they will be a bit...darker...of course we should strive for best quality wood we can get.
Some things are better left buried and forgotten - Lauren Oliver
There are things man was not meant to know - H.P Lovecraft (and many others)
Name: The Preachers
Aliases: [REDACTED]
The Preachers are those tasked with guarding all of forbidden knowledge, such as those whispered by the dark forces of chaos the location of the main headquarters of the Preachers is located in an unknown section of Mousilion. Information about the organization such as the locations of their bases of operations and more importantly the vaults which the things best left forgotten by all are located is kept under severe secrecy and known to only the Illuminated and the some high-ranking members of the Church.
Any other how have found the organization are either killed - reserved in extreme cases - or made to forget about all of it, their information taken by the Preachers and destroyed after everything has been accounted for and the securities and secrecy breaches plugged in.
History
The Preacher organization was founded during the year of 2062 IC by order of Dracul, this organization has the objective of guarding and protecting dangerous knowledge not meant to mortals and that can cause severe ramifications at any cost. To aid them in this task a new type of undead was created a superior version of the grave guard, nicknamed as the Custodes these undead guard the many vaults which an uncountable number of dark scriptures, tomes and statues are located.
While the organization is completely separated from the Illuminated and the Church it works closely to them as it is them that will take the dark and fell objects discovered by them and keep under lock and guard. This is not to say that there are peaceful relations between the three organizations, the Illuminated have spy rings all dedicated to keep watch on them, and the church keeps tabs on their locations as well ready to send the Holy Judges, the churchers military arm, in case something foul happens.
These measures are yet to prove necessary as there have not been no treachery on the organization, and more importantly no attempt at rebellion. This is because all members confirmed to have 'fallen' so to speak are all hunted down and killed before any information about them is discovered by the spies of both the Church and the Illuminated.
Organization
The organization of the Preachers is organized in several bases and vaults spread across all of the territory of their lords domain, some places have only bases other have the vaults which the things they were created to contain are kept, each of these vaults are heavily guarded especially the more high level vaults, in those it is very likely that not even a single fly can enter them as the secrets kept in there can shake the very foundations of reality.
OOC: Here is the sheet about the organization that keeps the horrible things made the terrible things in the dark contained.
@Alucard Vampiry did you know that the lady became this bitch because of her subjects that made her that way yes and in the beginning she was actually what her promises were real things that help people but now that's changed because of people's veiw of her
[X] [X] Plan of Attack
-[X] Cast call of vanhel on our undead forces and Birona's timewarp on our dragons and our knights. If any of our wizards or necromancers have buffs that we do not possess have them apply them to our forces.
-[X] Demand their surrender.
-[X] Have our undead and dark beasts charge while our flying beasts and dragons provide air support.
-[X] Take out the majority of the grail mages and knights using the hands of karkoa and then use the curse of ages on their army.(Leave some of the grail knights and mages alive for capture.)
-[X] Have 3 of our dragon knights along with 5,000 grave guards go to engage and try to capture any grail knights that are left in order to convert them later while the other 3 dragon knights along with 5,000 black knights go to try and capture any grail mage stragglers in order to convert them later.
-[X] Cast eyes of truth on yourself then transform into a dragon and fly to where the green knight is and turn back into our armored form, try to convince him to betray the lady by pointing out her failings but if he attacks then engage him in combat. Try to capture him by casting Abulla's Snare. If the Fae enchantress is there, kill her to. If she does not go after her next.
-[X] Heal those who surrender.
-[X] Cast invocation of Nehek after the battle and after all the peasants have left the battlefield.
It was already morning in Couronne but the dukedom was already awake thanks to sounds of war, Beastmen raiders ravaged its territory plundering and defiling all they came across with the symbols of the ruinous powers. The knights tried to stop the menace but the Beastmen were natural raiders they knew exactly when to raid and when to retreat from a battle they would lose.
They were all failing miserably to purge this threat to their home and it certainly pricked at their pride, and since they didn't had the insight nor the courage to blame their leaders they blamed the peasants and so inflicted untold cruelties upon them and the rage on the psyche of the peasant population of Couronne.
Upon the castle which he ruled centuries ago the Green Knight saw all of this and did nothing but pray and pray for the peasants to a goddess that will never care for their plight, in some way he did know this but the faith he has in his goddess is the only thing that makes him not fall to the ocean of guilt that has accumulated inside his mind. Him and the Fey Enchantress have been on Couronne for some time already, he did not know why he had not been ordered to act already after the… last order.
That's when he felt it deep inside his bones and soul, looking towards the horizon he knew it. That the god of dragons and his gigantic army of undead who numbered in the literal tens of millions.and this sheer size of an army had not been seen since the great coming of chaos, according to the Lady. He suspected how she knew that since she spoke like she was there, thought it was probably nothing.
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The first battle between the forces began with the leaders of the attack forces encountering the spread out armies of Couronne and demanded their surrender, some did surrender and the nobles were not immediately killed, others did not and the knights in them were impaled and left to rot until they were to be resurrected as undead later, their rich armors and weapon confiscated.
But the true battle began when the hordes of undead start approaching the capital of the dukedom which was named after, in there the six dragon lords confronted the ones which once they happily called brothers in a battle that slowly but surely turned in a siege, with several of the grail knights and their magical variations being captured or killed, brother killed brother as the principal city/castle of Couronne started to burn.
The dark beasts caused untold destruction as well, as they repeatedly tried to either climb or destroy the walls with the flying beasts causing mayhem as they took their prey and devoured them in the skies or dropped them from the thousand feet height and when their victims hitted the ground became splatters of meat and even dragons burning large sections of both the walls and the city itself.
The Green Knight wanted to fight against his brothers who had forsaken the Lady of The Lake but the Fay Enchantress held him back saying that the time was not yet right for him to act. That was the moment when the skies turned dark, the onslaught of undead, beasts, and dragons briefly stopped and all of them including their leaders looked towards the sky and kneeled. Moments later a titanic dragon came from the dragons, the term 'flying mountain' being a apt description of the being who is the God of all Dragons, and made a beeline towards the castle resident in the middle of the capital, before crashing into the ceiling of the castle he turned into the midnight clad warrior that has been gained quite a amount of dread.
Taking his first steps into the castle where all of the Bretonnian kings lived, Dracul ignored all of it and started walking towards the location of the one he came after.
Stopping a green blade that would have definitely tried and failed to pierce his divine armor - Well at least I don't have to look for you now do I? - Dracul thought looking at the mightiest of the Grail Knights and servants of Lileath, goddess of the Asur.
The Green Knight finally makes his appearance, and the predestined encounter between Dragon and Men has finally started.
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Kneeling in the destroyed part of the castle the Green Knight huffed in exaustation, yes it was actually incredible him the first of the kings of Bretonnia and of the Grail Knights the survivor of a thousand thousand battlefields against hundreds of different foes was finally feeling the limits of his blessed boy, the funny thing? It has only been three whole seconds and he could already feel the strain of fighting the god of all dragons.
But he must still fight, for The Lady, for chivalry for- "Justice?" The god shakes his head after discovering his thoughts -"The World is a cruel place, so to hell with the lady and her so-called "justice"" - He starts to walk towards him.
Seeing him not speaking he continued - "Open your eyes...for everywhere you look in this world you will find in it cruelty in some form or another. She promised that she would protect you, She promised that her protectors would be chivalrous, honest, and foremost the defenders of bretonnia. Yet, not everyone it seems deserves to fall under her protection. Instead she preaches that the lowest of the low is to be ignored, stomped upon, and sacrificed to the altar of her champion's ambitions. Each of you knights attack the peasants, the people themselves for simply wanting to worship her, honor her, and beg for her protection." - Citing the falling of The Lady and her knight servants in their treatment of those they swore to protect.
He continued to stay in silence as the god finally reached him and used his sword to lift his head - "Yet instead of this, you focus on wiping out any dissent from your ideology, never allowing even a hint of progress to go without the local lords say-so. How much could you have advanced if you had not crushed your people under the weight of your sins?" - The knight thinks about it and finds that they could have advanced so much in military, civic, and diplomatic areas.
"Yet even then, those that speak out, those that are different from the norm, they are either banished, crushed, or executed...thus wiping out all the knights who dared to speak out." - He did not refute this as he has been ordered by the lady to execute them himself for the simple crime of caring for their nation and its people, all of their people not just the nobles.
"There is another crime however...this arrogant apathy is far greater, then crude genocide. Awaken oh child of Bretonnia to reality, for nothing goes to plan in this cursed world. The truth is so cruel, so you hide in the lies that someone must be kind, and so you reached out for her when she presented herself to you, however her kindness is a naïve lie." - At this point the ocean of guilt started to finally drown him as he finally saw what the so-called goddess did to all of them.
"I want you to understand the future my children have seen of this once proud and noble land, for only pain and misery awaits the days when I had not been here." The god said as he put his clawed armored hand upon his head. Showing to him what could have been if he never arose in Bretonnia and the plans of the goddess he once worshipped to the lands he once ruled.
"There would have been no hope for this nation, at its state obsessed with the organization, obsessed with her ideals, obsessed with her chivalry, obsessed with lineages." - The God spoke the truth, he watched the plans of the lady as the obsession towards her ideals started to achieve even worse levels then now. Lords burning entire villages because they simply could not pay the exuberant taxes imposed on them. Truly good and honorable lords and knights being killed by either other lords and knights or their own families.
Lineages of kings and dukes thinking that they are gods on earth simply by their blood that runs through their veins, he saw it and a dozen other atrocities inflicted upon the people be it peasant or noble it did not matter if the latter had compassion towards the ones which he ruled over then he will be hunted down and killed. But the worst wasn't this, it was his own destiny he would butcher thousands of peasants and nobles, like something completely out of a horror story. And that's when he understood that all of them have been lied to.
"A grand compulsion that enslaves you and limit's your capabilities leading to fear of what you don't want to understand, relinquishing your potential to not only better yourselves but also robbing future generations unbalancing progress, unbalancing life itself revealing her true nature as nothing but a foolish parasite, almost on the same level of the abominations that rule the north!" - The visions continued showing him how they lived their lives like machines who followed a set pattern, not allowing them to advance their type of area be it political, military, or civilian and feeding upon their misery.
"You who completely gave your selves to her are all the same focusing on the trivial issues, things that should have been solved by the local knights and lords lost to their corruption! Instead you lost sight of what is truly important, change is impossible in this fog of ignorance." - The visions continued showing the clear stagnancy of the land of Bretonnia upon the centuries that could have been if the God all dragons never existed.
The visions stopped but the god continued to speak towards the numb knight, who had finally seen all of the lies of the lady of the lake - "How can you change oh nobles and knights and grow further still when this ridiculous regulation of all knowledge, awareness of the world is forbidden to you and hampers your abilities? Knowledge itself is connected to everything we do and use, for we use it to build our own individual world and call it reality."
"You call her a monster, but are you any different from her?" - The knight finally speaked stopping the long speech of the god, who looked at him with a tilted head. "If being a so-called monster is the price of wanting a better future then I will gladly bear it." - He looked across the room with his arms spread out - "So here we are at the crossroad that will impact the world...you have sworn to protect the people, but your goddess oppresses them and treats them no better than cattle, if not worse then the vampires themselves! But this farce of a nation, of an ideal, of a reality has gone on long enough!"
The god looked straight at him and he felt like everything that made him him was laid bare in the gaze of the god - "So what will you choose at this moment? Surrendering now to save the soul of this nation? Saving not only yourself but millions out there fighting for their lives against chaos, greenskin's, or perhaps even worse things? Or shall you continue this fight with nothing to show for it but the dead? Oh Green Knight...no...Gilles Le Breton" The god said, making his eyes widen as the ancient name all but forgotten in the depths of his ancient mind.
"How did you-"
"To be fair I wasn't completely sure that you were actually him but you reaction says everything that I needed to be sure that you are him" - The god answered his question - "But you did not answer my question will you fight on from now knowing that your goddess betrayed the single oath she made to you...to protect your people? If so then, let this duel bring an end to this tale as your true self...the king of Knights, facing down The Father of Dragons in one last confrontation between the Old and The New."
For a moment both said nothing, the god took the cue to continue speaking - "If you wish to secede, to save your people and the true pride and nobility of this nation, all I ask is to be tested, to let me show you through my actions that i shall save this nation from corruption, both from within, and without." - The God proposed to the still not moving knight.
"The Beastmen shall be burned to ash, the green-skins threat crushed under-foot, the monsters that plague the lands either slaughtered or driven off, and the forest-kin tamed of their fury either by word or force. Merely ask of my knights, ask of my followers, ask of my wizards, ask of my children, ask of the people of my lands. If further proof is what you need then go walk among the people of my homeland Mousillon, look upon my works, look upon the fruits of my labors and judge whether or not I have the best interest of my lands.
What do you Say now Gilles Le Breto, King of Knights and Lord of Chivalry?"
The Green Knigh- no Gilles Le Breton looked at him and said - "I am no king a king does not do what I did, it was me opened the door to her'' - The last word is said with a hiss - "And you do not need to prove yourself, I saw what you did the people you take in your care are cured of their wounds and diseases, the nobles who are spared and have a good heart to are spared and healed. Your knights are Bretonnia should have been, they walk on the streets and the people cheer on their passage with genuine happiness that they are there and look upon them with awe and no fear"
He looked towards the God who was truly worthy of being worshipped - "All I want is a second chance"
No words were exchanged between the two for no words were needed, the darkness of the realm of the God approached the soul of the King of Knights and started to change, expunging the influence of Lileath also known as the Lady of The Lake. The others are the champions and protectors of my children, but you will be different…
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You Shall Be My Blade
Upon her domain the elven goddess of dreams felt the connection she had with her greatest knight be snuffed out of existence, and felt confusion.
You Shall Be My Champion
In their domains all of the gods felt the birth of something that could cause equal amounts of destruction and salvation towards the entirety of realty conquering large swathes of the universe in the name of his god, The Great Dragon God Dracul.
You Shall Be My Herald
Tzeentch watched with interest as the birth of the greatest champion of his little project, the birth of the dark armored being causing shifts in the timeline of this universe finally turning it something completely different than before, it did not matter if chaos won Tzeentch knew that everything would never be the same and he would have it no other way.
The Green Knight is Dead
The gods of the empire and the dwarven ancestors watched the birth of the being destined to bring both ruin and salvation in the name of his god as he leads the armies of darkness through the universe.
Giles Le Breton is Dead
The Fay Enchantress rushed towards the room where the battle between the two happened, but feeling the birth of something dark and new she knew that she had arrived too late.
You're Now Bahamut
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The siege lasted for only a few minutes after the arrival of Dracul upon the battlefield the defenders lost their faith and were quickly overrunned by the tide of death, Couronne the capital of Bretonnia was now in the possession of the army of death and word quickly spread out to the other dukedoms. But the most pressing matter was the birth of another champion of Dracul but while the other six brothers were protectors of his children the seventh named Bahamut would be the gods personal champion.
He is more powerful than the other six combined and is always by his master's side, no matter the circumstance at the moment. When the horn of war is sounded by his god he is the first being to answer the call of war…
Conquered Region - Couronne
Gain New Special Unit - Bahamut Champion of Dracul
[] Raise The Dead: All dukedoms are places where many battles were fought having so hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of known and unknown places where the dead were buried. Raises unknown amount of undead
[] Garrison The New Territory: Putting a garrison on your new territory is a wise decision. (Write-In Amount)
- [] Lyonesse (Existing Garrison: 150,000 skeletons, 150,000 zombies, 100 fire dragons, 100 storm dragons, 1 Doom Fire Dragon, 1 Great Storm, 10,000 grave guard, 10,000 black knights, and 10 necromancers)
- [] Artois (Existing Garrison: 150,000 skeletons, 150,000 zombies, 100 fire dragons, 100 storm dragons, 1 Doom Fire Dragon, 1 Great Storm Dragon, 10,000 grave guard, 10,000 black knights, and 10 necromancers)
- [] L'Anguille (Existing Garrison: 150,000 skeletons, 150,000 zombies, 100 fire dragons, 100 storm dragons, 1 Doom Fire Dragon, 10,000 grave guard, 10,000 black knights, and 10 necromancers)
- [] Gisoreux (Existing Garrison: 150,000 skeletons, 150,000 zombies, 100 fire dragons, 100 storm dragons, 1 Great Storm Dragon, 10,000 grave guard, 10,000 black knights, and 10 necromancers)
- [] Couronne
[] Next Target? (You Can Split Your Forces If You Want To)
- [] Montfort: Like its name would suggest a great part of the duchy is centered around the grey mountains, and what little fertile land it has has been totally devoted to agriculture, it is constantly being attacked by orcs.
- [] Bastonne: The dukedom where many a slayer of dragons came from, divided between the lands which are devoted between farms and pastures, it is said that Gilles Le Breton, the first of the kings of Bretonnia, was borned and raised here.
[] You Have gained Enough Already (Ends War Turns)
Current Forces
- Undead: 29,577,508 Skeletons; 28,427,508 Zombies; 14,999,380 Grave Guard; 14,047,090 Black Knights - Dark Beasts: 312,500 Fell Bats; 312,500 Dire Wolves; 175,000 Vargheists; 176,000 Varghulfs; 267,500 Crypt Ghouls; 252,500 Crypt Horrors; 600 Terrorgheists.
- Dragons: 24,600 Fire Dragons; 347 Doom Fire Dragons; 24,600 Storm Dragons; 347 Great Storm Dragons - Magical Forces: 12 Necromancers; 1 Fire Wizard; 1 Metal Wizard; 1 Beast Wizard; 1 Heaven Wizard; 1 Shadow Wizard - Special Forces: Bahamut; Nidhogg; Dragoth; Drakon; Galrkrond; Fafnir; Druk. - Leader: Dracul
GM Note - More than 3000 words I am suprised with myself, also about Bahamut: If the six dragon lords are your versions of chaos champions than Bahamut is your version of the everchosen of chaos. So yeah be free to write omakes about it concerning what happened.
GM Note - More than 3000 words I am suprised with myself, also about Bahamut: If the six dragon lords are your versions of chaos champions than Bahamut is your version of the everchosen of chaos. So yeah be free to write omakes about it concerning what happened.
An interesting Chapter and a nice change for the Warhammer World. I just wanted to ask you if you could maybe look over your posts before you submit them. Some Spellchecking would work wonders for the quality of your quest. Maybe look for a Beta-Reader for these larger parts, as i found myself distracted by things like:
"when their victims hitted the ground became splatters of meat", which just reads as nonsense. Some slower pacing could also help. A lot of things happen in every sentence and it gets a little hard to follow all of it.
" The Green Knight wanted to fight against his brothers who had forsaken the Lady of The Lake but the Fay Enchantress held him back saying that the time was not yet right for him to act. " <- This could have been a scene all on its own. You already had the Green Knight as the Center Piece of this Chapter, so you could have done it from his perspective. A longer fight would have been nice too, at least something better than just three seconds. (For the Story. Dracul could have toyed with him.)
You also described how the Lady lost her champion, but there was not even the slightest confrontation between them and the Fay Enchantress was suddenly somewhere else.
Just a few things i noticed. I do enjoy the quest, but some things could be done for the quality of writing.
