The Rise of the Survivors

"But Divinius's brother Kingsley survived. And he rallied the races of the land against their foes, slowing but not stopping the spread of Death. It was then that Kingsley started gathering the warriors that legend calls 'Survivors'" Further rants of the Mad Bard, Ahmed.

Doom gripped the land. Hope was buried eneath the shattered bones of ten thousand warriors. The Deadlands grew a few yards every day, despite the best efforts of the unified armies of the land. And the armies were getting weaker.

Kingsley Mont-Callahie, the only survivor of the fall of Castle'Mont-Callahie West and the driving force behind the present Alliance knew that something had to be done or all was lost.

The answer came to him in a dream. He was to gather under him a force of warriors that had the courage and the will to enter the Deadlands and take the fight to the Lords of the Dead. These warrior he would know when he met them, and they would be drawn to him by forces beyond understanding. Kaleb, Numa, Ayame, Mestipen, K'Wash and numerous others over the years. Tjhough he was made to wathc many of the die in his dreams, he also saw the victories that their sacrifices bought; The difference that his small band of Survivors would make. And he knew his dream was true and it brought him hope.

And then he dreamed of Lazarus and the effects this man would have on the course of the world and the sacrifices he would force everyone to make; the final outcome of the war. And, for the first time since the death of his wife at the hands of the dead, Kingsley wept....

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