ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Definitely. "These are the fangs of Sargares's personal felhound turned into daggers and haunted by the ghost of their previous holder" is gonna be a fun conversation to have
Taking My Turn With the Matches (RWBY/Warcraft)
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serra2
Himouto! Sylvanas-chan
So, remember that the afterlives we see in Shadowlands are not all of them, meerly the big ones involved in making Death work. Basically, 95% of everyone who dies is going to go to whatever afterlife fits their culture/species, while only exceptional individuals will be judged as worthy of going to one of the big ones.
Now, that being said, Maldraxxus for the funnies. Skelly Blood Knight Summer in full zombie gothic chic visiting the kids and the hubby.
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Yes, but that isn't as fun as Summer being in one of the big ones so Ruby can reunite with her. Short of Ruby (both of 'em) running around asking if people have seen their mom, there's more story to be told in Summer being in one of the big afterlives.
I'm honestly torn between Maldraxxus and Ardenweald
Imagine if she pays Raven a visit at the bandit camp.
Chapter 6
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
"You want to secede Valen territory to an unknown nation?" Glynda winced at the tone in Councilman Gray's voice.
"Forever Fall stretches on for miles," Ozpin said without any reaction to the anger, "you know as well as I do that we only nominally control it. I'm not saying to give the entirety of it to them, but a few acres in return for guarding it is far from unreasonable. Especially after the White Fang's most recent raid on the SDC trains through the area."
"And we'd be giving this Alliance a base within spitting distance of Vale's walls! We might as well give them Mountain Glenn so they can burrow under the walls and launch an attack that way!"
"You're being histrionic," Ozpin said, "I severely doubt a single garrison of troops will be enough to take Vale, especially if this camp, as they said, is a glorified boot camp."
"Which leads to the next question, what are they fighting, that they need to train soldiers?" Gray snapped, "Soldiers, not Huntsmen, Ozpin."
That was a good question.
"Netherlord Rose did allude to a war she had no desire to fight, as did Prince Greymane," Ozpin admitted, "though neither said against who beyond calling them a horde. Just that it was a threat that the Alliance government may need to go into exile on Remnant if things came to the worst."
"So we could be dragged into a war because we helped this Alliance," Gray said, "and yet you still want to do it?"
"Yes," Ozpin said bluntly, "If we don't, they will likely petition Mistral, Atlas and Vacuo to allow them to build their garrison within their territory and, if that fails, travel to one of the places we do, truly, only nominally control and build it there. Beacon does regular training exercises in the Forever Fall. It will allow us to monitor the Alliance."
"You don't trust them," Gray huffed.
"I have no reason to trust them," Ozpin said, "Which is why I am going to ask that Prince Greymane remain at Beacon even once we give them permission to build this garrison. Though I also admit I don't know how much the others will be traveling to Vale and back.
"Hmp, fine," Gray said, "let them build this garrison, but if this backfires, it's on your head, Ozpin."
—
"So, why are your daggers made of bone?" Valeera blinked at the question as she sat down to eat. Ruby was looking at her in curiosity, big silver eyes blinking at her expectantly.
"They're called the Fangs of the Devourer," Valeera said, grabbing a haunch of meat and tearing into it, "they're made from the teeth of Goremaw, the personal felhound of Sargeras."
"Didn't Rose say he was the leader of the Burning Legion?" Ruby asked.
"Yep," Valeera said.
"And you made his dog's teeth into daggers?"
"I didn't, a dreadlord, a powerful demon, did. I just took them so we could use them against the Legion. We needed powerful weapons against them, so we collected them. Every order on Azeroth did."
"Orders?"
"Groups of what we call Classes. Like the Council of the Black Harvest for Ruby, or the Uncrowned for me and Tess. Though I didn't tell you that second one."
"Is it a secret?"
"Very, I'm only telling you because you're a younger Rose, and I trust her."
"Cool," Ruby breathed, "are you, like, spys then? Like James Pond?"
Who?
"We're rogues. We work in the shadows to protect Azeroth. Bribes, blackmail, assassinations of bad people, things like that."
"So Rose hangs out with the bad guys?"
"If you wanna call us bad guys. We do the dirty work to protect Azeroth. We can't all be Knights of the Silver Hand. Those are Paladins, they use the Light to fight evil."
"And you're close to Rose?"
"Yes."
"Is she… Is she a bad person, for using souls and making demons slaves?"
"I wouldn't say so," Valeera said, "Rose… took the Battle of the Broken Shore hard. We both did, we lost a friend there. But Rose, she feels like if she was stronger, the invasion could have been stopped there. She feels the invasion is her fault, I think. So she would have done anything to fix her 'mistake'."
—
Ruby decapitated a doomguard in a flash of Shalamayne and a scattering of rose petals. The next second, she was dodging around the attack of a wrathguard, weaving in between the flurry of blows from the eredar before driving Shalamayne into his heart. Kicking the body off the sword, she surged forwards and decapitated another two in a single swing.
Behind her Varian was making progress with his half of Shalamayne and his shield. The blue gem in the sword seemed to shine brighter with each kill as fel blood stained the blade. Next to him, Uther batted the head off a demon with each swing of Deathbringer. Jaina gestured with her hand and a group of demons froze solid, a heavy rap of her staff on the ground shattering them.
Genn was tearing demons apart with his bare claws, the white furred king of Gilneas having lost his jacket long ago, except for tatters barely clinging to his body. Mekkatorque had arrived, firing missiles from his mech to blow up another group of demons.
But as well as the heroes of the Alliance were doing, the soldiers were struggling. Impaled by wrathguard, hacked in two by felguard, torn to pieces by doomguard. Hordes of imps leaping onto them and tearing them to pieces with fel enhanced claws, felhounds chased down mages and tackled them to the ground, ripping out their throats through barrier spells, felbats swooping down and picking up anyone who strayed from the pack, before dropping them in splatters of gore. They were doing their best, but for every hero killing scores of demons, demons were butchering the Alliance.
Across from them, Gul'dan was casually gesturing, groups of soldiers exploding in felfire as he did. At the same time, portals tore into reality, small at first, just letting through imps that threw small balls of felfire but growing in each second, letting through bigger and bigger demons. The largest were spitting out doomguards, but Ruby didn't doubt they would be spitting out pitlords before too long. And that wasn't counting the giant portal in the Tomb of Sargeras, spilling more and more demons out every second.
They needed to end this. Now.
Ruby disincorporated into rose petals, rushing through the demons to reach Gul'dan. Reforming with Shalamayne pulled back for a thrust into the warlock's thoat. Suddenly, Ruby felt something focus on her through the portal, her heartbeat speeding up to dangerous levels. The next second, she was blown back as if by a swat from a god, felfire burning along her body as she smashed into the ground, her Aura shattering and several bones snapping as she did. Jaina immediately poured enchanted water over her, putting out the felfire as a pair of footmen helped her sit up.
"What was that?" Varian asked, and Ruby responded with the answer she knew in her gut.
"Sargeras," she gasped, her broken ribs causing her to spit up some blood, "He's on the other side of that portal. He's watching us."
"Finally," a demon rumbled, several Eredar stepping from the portals, then nathrezim and pitlords, "We return to conquer this puny world, and see it burned to a husk."
"Gelbin!" Varian called, "call in the Skyfire, we're going to rain down hell on them! Jaina, teleport Ruby onto the ship as soon as it arrives, she's in no state to fight! Genn, tell Sylvanas to clear the sk-"
Before he could even finish the order, a horn sounded and the Dark Rangers began to retreat from the ridge.
"That traitorous bitch!" Genn howled, "I knew we couldn't trust her, I knew it! Varian, we have to leave, we can't win this without them!"
The next thing Ruby knew, she was on the deck of the Skyfire, leaning against the cabin. She watched Tess fire her wrist mounted crossbow into a felbat. The Gilnean princess turned, catching sight of Ruby and gasped.
"Get a healer!" She ordered, rushing to Ruby's side and uncorking a potion.
"That bad?" Ruby joked, doing her best to ignore the red stained ivory poking through her pants leg.
"Don't even joke about this," Tess ordered, pouring the potion down Ruby's throat, "That will keep you from bleeding out, but you need a real healer-"
"I'll take over, Princess Greymane," a familiarDraenai woman said, the Light shining around her as she crouched down next to Ruby.
"Xyrella, how's your daughter?" Ruby asked.
"Don't speak," Xyrella ordered, "You'll just make your wounds worse-"
A giant meteor barely missed the Skyfire, before the hand of a fel reaver grabbed the ship, causing it to pitch and tumble.
"Varian!" Genn called, back in human form and reaching for someone over the edge, "take my hand!"
Ruby saw Genn give a solemn nod at something, and knew what was coming. Lunging forwards, Shalamayne clattering to the ground, she was left curling around her injuries and vomiting up blood as the ship righted itself.
"Get us back to Stormwind," Genn ordered, clutching a letter in his hand.
—
"Forever Fall stretches on for miles," Ozpin said without any reaction to the anger, "you know as well as I do that we only nominally control it. I'm not saying to give the entirety of it to them, but a few acres in return for guarding it is far from unreasonable. Especially after the White Fang's most recent raid on the SDC trains through the area."
"And we'd be giving this Alliance a base within spitting distance of Vale's walls! We might as well give them Mountain Glenn so they can burrow under the walls and launch an attack that way!"
"You're being histrionic," Ozpin said, "I severely doubt a single garrison of troops will be enough to take Vale, especially if this camp, as they said, is a glorified boot camp."
"Which leads to the next question, what are they fighting, that they need to train soldiers?" Gray snapped, "Soldiers, not Huntsmen, Ozpin."
That was a good question.
"Netherlord Rose did allude to a war she had no desire to fight, as did Prince Greymane," Ozpin admitted, "though neither said against who beyond calling them a horde. Just that it was a threat that the Alliance government may need to go into exile on Remnant if things came to the worst."
"So we could be dragged into a war because we helped this Alliance," Gray said, "and yet you still want to do it?"
"Yes," Ozpin said bluntly, "If we don't, they will likely petition Mistral, Atlas and Vacuo to allow them to build their garrison within their territory and, if that fails, travel to one of the places we do, truly, only nominally control and build it there. Beacon does regular training exercises in the Forever Fall. It will allow us to monitor the Alliance."
"You don't trust them," Gray huffed.
"I have no reason to trust them," Ozpin said, "Which is why I am going to ask that Prince Greymane remain at Beacon even once we give them permission to build this garrison. Though I also admit I don't know how much the others will be traveling to Vale and back.
"Hmp, fine," Gray said, "let them build this garrison, but if this backfires, it's on your head, Ozpin."
—
"So, why are your daggers made of bone?" Valeera blinked at the question as she sat down to eat. Ruby was looking at her in curiosity, big silver eyes blinking at her expectantly.
"They're called the Fangs of the Devourer," Valeera said, grabbing a haunch of meat and tearing into it, "they're made from the teeth of Goremaw, the personal felhound of Sargeras."
"Didn't Rose say he was the leader of the Burning Legion?" Ruby asked.
"Yep," Valeera said.
"And you made his dog's teeth into daggers?"
"I didn't, a dreadlord, a powerful demon, did. I just took them so we could use them against the Legion. We needed powerful weapons against them, so we collected them. Every order on Azeroth did."
"Orders?"
"Groups of what we call Classes. Like the Council of the Black Harvest for Ruby, or the Uncrowned for me and Tess. Though I didn't tell you that second one."
"Is it a secret?"
"Very, I'm only telling you because you're a younger Rose, and I trust her."
"Cool," Ruby breathed, "are you, like, spys then? Like James Pond?"
Who?
"We're rogues. We work in the shadows to protect Azeroth. Bribes, blackmail, assassinations of bad people, things like that."
"So Rose hangs out with the bad guys?"
"If you wanna call us bad guys. We do the dirty work to protect Azeroth. We can't all be Knights of the Silver Hand. Those are Paladins, they use the Light to fight evil."
"And you're close to Rose?"
"Yes."
"Is she… Is she a bad person, for using souls and making demons slaves?"
"I wouldn't say so," Valeera said, "Rose… took the Battle of the Broken Shore hard. We both did, we lost a friend there. But Rose, she feels like if she was stronger, the invasion could have been stopped there. She feels the invasion is her fault, I think. So she would have done anything to fix her 'mistake'."
—
Ruby decapitated a doomguard in a flash of Shalamayne and a scattering of rose petals. The next second, she was dodging around the attack of a wrathguard, weaving in between the flurry of blows from the eredar before driving Shalamayne into his heart. Kicking the body off the sword, she surged forwards and decapitated another two in a single swing.
Behind her Varian was making progress with his half of Shalamayne and his shield. The blue gem in the sword seemed to shine brighter with each kill as fel blood stained the blade. Next to him, Uther batted the head off a demon with each swing of Deathbringer. Jaina gestured with her hand and a group of demons froze solid, a heavy rap of her staff on the ground shattering them.
Genn was tearing demons apart with his bare claws, the white furred king of Gilneas having lost his jacket long ago, except for tatters barely clinging to his body. Mekkatorque had arrived, firing missiles from his mech to blow up another group of demons.
But as well as the heroes of the Alliance were doing, the soldiers were struggling. Impaled by wrathguard, hacked in two by felguard, torn to pieces by doomguard. Hordes of imps leaping onto them and tearing them to pieces with fel enhanced claws, felhounds chased down mages and tackled them to the ground, ripping out their throats through barrier spells, felbats swooping down and picking up anyone who strayed from the pack, before dropping them in splatters of gore. They were doing their best, but for every hero killing scores of demons, demons were butchering the Alliance.
Across from them, Gul'dan was casually gesturing, groups of soldiers exploding in felfire as he did. At the same time, portals tore into reality, small at first, just letting through imps that threw small balls of felfire but growing in each second, letting through bigger and bigger demons. The largest were spitting out doomguards, but Ruby didn't doubt they would be spitting out pitlords before too long. And that wasn't counting the giant portal in the Tomb of Sargeras, spilling more and more demons out every second.
They needed to end this. Now.
Ruby disincorporated into rose petals, rushing through the demons to reach Gul'dan. Reforming with Shalamayne pulled back for a thrust into the warlock's thoat. Suddenly, Ruby felt something focus on her through the portal, her heartbeat speeding up to dangerous levels. The next second, she was blown back as if by a swat from a god, felfire burning along her body as she smashed into the ground, her Aura shattering and several bones snapping as she did. Jaina immediately poured enchanted water over her, putting out the felfire as a pair of footmen helped her sit up.
"What was that?" Varian asked, and Ruby responded with the answer she knew in her gut.
"Sargeras," she gasped, her broken ribs causing her to spit up some blood, "He's on the other side of that portal. He's watching us."
"Finally," a demon rumbled, several Eredar stepping from the portals, then nathrezim and pitlords, "We return to conquer this puny world, and see it burned to a husk."
"Gelbin!" Varian called, "call in the Skyfire, we're going to rain down hell on them! Jaina, teleport Ruby onto the ship as soon as it arrives, she's in no state to fight! Genn, tell Sylvanas to clear the sk-"
Before he could even finish the order, a horn sounded and the Dark Rangers began to retreat from the ridge.
"That traitorous bitch!" Genn howled, "I knew we couldn't trust her, I knew it! Varian, we have to leave, we can't win this without them!"
The next thing Ruby knew, she was on the deck of the Skyfire, leaning against the cabin. She watched Tess fire her wrist mounted crossbow into a felbat. The Gilnean princess turned, catching sight of Ruby and gasped.
"Get a healer!" She ordered, rushing to Ruby's side and uncorking a potion.
"That bad?" Ruby joked, doing her best to ignore the red stained ivory poking through her pants leg.
"Don't even joke about this," Tess ordered, pouring the potion down Ruby's throat, "That will keep you from bleeding out, but you need a real healer-"
"I'll take over, Princess Greymane," a familiarDraenai woman said, the Light shining around her as she crouched down next to Ruby.
"Xyrella, how's your daughter?" Ruby asked.
"Don't speak," Xyrella ordered, "You'll just make your wounds worse-"
A giant meteor barely missed the Skyfire, before the hand of a fel reaver grabbed the ship, causing it to pitch and tumble.
"Varian!" Genn called, back in human form and reaching for someone over the edge, "take my hand!"
Ruby saw Genn give a solemn nod at something, and knew what was coming. Lunging forwards, Shalamayne clattering to the ground, she was left curling around her injuries and vomiting up blood as the ship righted itself.
"Get us back to Stormwind," Genn ordered, clutching a letter in his hand.
—
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Also, I hope I did Ozpin justice. And what is people's opinions on Sargeras casually curbstomping Ruby (I mean, he is a Fel corrupted planet) Thoughts, questions, opinions? Good? Bad? Meh?
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It seemed reasonable, with all the talk Rose gave with limited context he is right to be concerned and also a forward base is mostly a minor issue. The Alliance has apparently the ability to teleport and create portals to Remnant, he can't stop them from establishing a base here, he can only make sure its somewhere he can see and observe.
As for Ruby? Ya the only surprising thing is that she survived a hit from Sargares, she just isn't in that weight class.
It's a miracle Ruby survived from Sargeras easily swatting her aside.
I have a feeling she ain't gonna be impressed of Salem when they meet.
Also I can't wait to see Ironwood's reaction at the Alliance when he pays a visit with his Atlesian fleet.
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
It needs to be established. Sargeras didn't hit Ruby. She would have absolutely died if he did. What happened was Sargeras looked at Ruby.
This was me translating an in game thing into a story thing. If you get too close to Gul'dan during the broken shore scenario, you get a debuff saying something is watching you through the portal and then drop dead. The only reason Ruby survived is because of her Aura.
Damn, that makes Broxigar a real badass for looking at Sargeras in the face and then managed to wound the Dark Titan with his battle axe enchanted by Cenarion.
Do you think Rose's Silver Eyes power would somewhat singe Sargeras at full power?
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Yes, they would.
Cool and also will Sargeras take notice of her Silver Eyes to be from a different light entity (Brother God of Light) that's not a Naaru or not?
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
Not particularly, the Light is the Light, no matter the form it takes.
Oh okay then. This does give a potential idea of a story where Ruby Rose is trained as Paladin of the Silver Hand where uses her Silver Eyes more effectively and end up inspiring Paladins to channel the Light to fire laser eyes like her too.
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It's interesting though, if the Silver Eyes are based in warcraft light their super effectiveness against Grimm implies that the Grimm are void based.
We know that there are old gods on planets without a world soul but I dont think the dark brother is an old god but a light and void god working together is exceptionally rare in warcraft.
Also not sure if Psycho is going to include the latest lore from RWBY about the everafter.
We know that there are old gods on planets without a world soul but I dont think the dark brother is an old god but a light and void god working together is exceptionally rare in warcraft.
Also not sure if Psycho is going to include the latest lore from RWBY about the everafter.
ThatOnePsycho
Tilting his Vanes and Ennobling His Spires
I feel it harmless to confirm that the Tree is one of the First Ones, the Super Precursors™ introduced in Shadowlands that created reality.
It'd be interesting to see Warlock Rose meet the Blacksmith and also deal with the Curious Cat.
Ozpin might be worried of the Alliance's military presence on Remnant as he did have the Four Kingdoms' militaries disbanded and replaced them with Hunstmen Academies after the Great War he ended as the Last King of Vale.
At least until Atlas remade the military and building up their strength that worried Vale, Mistral and Vacuo especially as shown when Ironwood's Atlesian fleet showing up at Beacon Academy unannounced like a foreign invader.