by The Kingpin » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:43 pm
Andruil struggled against the decayed limbs as they pooled around him, snarling as he looked up at what could well have been a fatal blow, until the blast of light froze the assailants solid, the booming sounds painful to his sensitive ears. As the Troll and limbs dissolved, the Knight shook off the remains, turning to face the source, eyeing the winged pillar of light through squinting eyes, raising a muscular arm in front of his lupine features to shield his eyes from the brightness of the being hovering before him in the distance. Sighing, he returned to his human form, fur shrinking and splitting as the sheen of metallic armour became visible, the Knight's familiar form appearing as the dark grey and brown werewolf dissolved, grey wisps of shadow swirling around his form. A sigh of relief escaped the man as he looked around at his comrades, and at the wreckage that surrounded them. It was a difficult fight...but at last...it was over...
The Knight Commander descended from above, moving down towards the battlefield, seeing the swirling grey wisps that engulfed his brother, undoubtedly due to his shift back from his Wolf form. Alex looked over his own body, his armoured body badly scarred from his opponents. Dents, metallic claw marks and sliced chainmail and leather covered his form, and he could feel his armour sticking to him in places from something more than sweat. His steed wasn't in much better condition. The young drake was covered in cuts and scorch marks, scars from larger beasts covering his hide all over, and his wing membranes tattered to the point they were only barely air-worthy. Had the battle continued much longer, they would've been forced to continue fighting on the ground. "Rejoice, races of Aster! We have triumphed!" he called out, the Valenhadian legions exploding into cheers of victory...
Antar meanwhile, stood among his mean, who had joined in with the calls of victory. His Manticore stood tiredly beside him, a broken wing hanging limply at its side, plumes of smoke coming from the leonine beast's fanged jaws in rattling breaths, blood spilling slowly from one of its arms, amidst scores of smaller wounds covering its hide. Antar's cloak was wrapped firmly around a particularly large wound on one of its forelimbs, the Dark Elven King having done some on-location first aid for his steed. He stood now with only a black sleeveless leather vest and chestplate protecting his upper torso, the material tough, but light and flexible. his two secondary blades were in their sheaths, his main scimitar hanging in one hand, blackened blood trailing down its obsidian edge as it shimmered menacingly. The elf sighed as he looked up at the sky above, revelling in the light of the sun, having never suspected he could be so glad to see the shimmering white disk. Victory had been claimed. And his men had fought valiantly. But there was no doubt the losses would be great...He would have to prepare for the funeral service once they returned home...He did not look forward to it...
Arashi breathed a sigh of relief as the weight of the battle was lifted from his shoulders with Eredar's destruction, the Stormweaver glancing across the battlefield, feeling peace once more. His first action however, was to search the sky and ground for Septimus, his psychic powers jumping between individuals across the battlefield in search of his son, calming once he saw, through one soldier's eyes, the young Hueilin flying over the battlefield. He survived...All was well. Around him, the assembled mages and warlocks of Valenhad, Zuppoland and the Desert Races sat, channelling their energy between them, to replenish those of them most heavily weakened, to even out the burden among them. his gaze softening, the Immortal reached an arm forward, wisps of bluish energy flowing from his arm and washing over them, recovering their energy swiftly, until they had regained enough strength to function, before ceasing. He knew he would require some for himself, if the sensation of fury he sensed in Septimus was from what he believed it was...
Bassunka twisted his blade staff in hand before putting it into its frame on his back, locking it in place diagonally as he glanced around him. Many of his brethren lay dead. As adept as they were in combat, they were not used to fighting on land, and had paid a harsh price. While the knowledge and experience of combat had been spread across all the troops in preparation for this battle, it still had not been enough to save the lives of the many that lay across the battlefield. Many a mother, father, wife, husband and child would stand in mourning at the Shrine of the Conch when they returned. But it comforted him to know they had fought fiercely and valiantly. Aster would again know the might and bravery of the Zuppolandian people, even 600 years after they had seemingly vanished. Looking over himself, he saw very little in the way of life threatening damage. the powerful Leviathan scale armour he had been given by the Council of Elders had served him well. He only had one wound across his torso, the result of a large Shadowreaver's talons tearing through it. The armour had scratches and grazes in it, but none aside from the Shadowreaver wound had penetrated. He only wished that Leviathans of this calibre were more readily available for armour smithing. It would have saved many lives...
Septimus watched in relief as their enemy was destroyed before them, the Hueilin's eyes narrowing, pupils narrowing to hair-thin slits as the explosion of light washed over the battlefield, Moria revealed before them. It brought up questions in the young Scholar, but at the moment, he found it hard to ignore the burning anger that filled him. This battle had brought with it a harsh reminder of the evil of his father's actions. And he would see to it the Stormweaver answered for it. He would have to watch his pace however. Looking over his own body, he saw how risky a direct confrontation could be for him. His tattered wings shimmered brightly with glowing, golden-white blood, even the cool of the air not enough to cool its temperature as it dripped from his countless wounds. Glowing electrical scars covered his hide in a shimmering web-like pattern, the result of his clash with his father's dark doppleganger. Hundreds of glowing wounds covered his body, and it wasn't hard to imagine him looking very much like Thurduunax in a millennia's time at this rate. Still, many of the wounds were shallow enough to heal without leaving significant scars, so perhaps he wouldn't be a walking tapestry of pain and suffering just yet. The battlefield below him however, was another matter. The ground was burned and rotten, mangled and disfigured from the effects of Eredar's power. Fires raged rampantly across the landscape, and wreckage was strewn across the site of the battle so numerously that it would take months to clear it all. Even if it were to be cleared of the debris of the battle, Septimus doubted that this land would be habitable for many months, if not years. He shuddered to think what would've happened to Aster as a whole had they failed...
"Ah yes, organised chaos. the sign of a clever but ever-busy mind. To the perpetrator, a carefully woven web of belongings and intrigue, but to the bystander? Madness!"
–William Beckett, Lore of Leyuna RPG