So after thinking about doing a quest to keep me here more regularly—what with school hopefully done with—I got slammed with a bunch of ideas all at once. Dunno if there is such a thing as good replay value in quests, but if this goes well there's too many fun things I'd love to do to not consider a second (maybe on SB too?). Anyways, time to get on with it! (Title will change upon Prologue 2)
"War never changes."
You'd heard it before, though whether from some historical class or the rambling of an idealistic opponent you're not sure. Not that you ever cared to give it much thought. Whoever had said that never fought more than one enemy—and it's the opponent that determines a war's course and outcome. You know that all-too-well now.
There was a time when mankind had their own wars to fight...
[X] ...where you fought to make the world safe for those you cared about, though you'd like to think those days might be over. Indeed, the road to world piece was bloody and misleading, and you yourself did not come away unsullied in your efforts. But at last, the world was at the brink of peace—and with your requiem, the final cornerstone of its foundation would have been in place.
As the climax approaches, perhaps it is too late to stop...
[X] ...when you knew exactly who your enemy was. Cursed—though most claim chosen' by some quirk of fate to end his reign of terror, it was a simpler time; you knew what you had to do—you knew the path of light.
How naïve you were...
[X] ...when you had been victorious in war in order to bring peace to your lands, but in the end all was for naught. Yet now as you live again in this war of magic to change your past, you began to find yourself swayed by the man who fought side-by-side with you.
Alas, the future remains as uncertain as the past...
[X] ...when the enemies of war had pride and valor, or better yet the will to win regardless of the tricks they had to pull. Indeed, your greatest adversary once declared that, "The ends justified the means," and though you wouldn't go so far, there was a certain honor in the fighting nevertheless...
Man or Machine...?
[X] ...when mankind would create their own enemies to bite them when they least expect it, wars that would ravage worlds and leave barren wastes behind. You had wished to prevent these conflicts, and bring about the peaceful joy that you now experienced everyday.
Yet even you could not predict everything...
[X] ...when you and your friends came together to end a hundred-year war and bring peace to the world, thinking the world would find peace anew. Perhaps you simply knew your enemies well enough...
Or was it your friends...?
[X] ...when the thought of war brought you to your knees at the sadness and losses it brings. You had believed you could grow strong enough to defend those you cared about this time, though looking back the war that had taken those lives had been but a scratch on the surface of war against a true enemy...
Justice or Freedom...?
[X] ...long ago—a forgotten era that some thought would never return—where the world struggled to unite together. Alas, you were among the naïve and solitary, just a child playing with his armadillo; how could you have known the world might one day stop spinning?
Again and again...
[X] ...when even little-old-you were drawn into a war across worlds, in a multiverse where planetary conflict was the norm...where war still had heroes who knew responsibility.
No matter the challenge...