The Journal Of Nero Horen

[Kickstarted and Running 965]

Date Unknown

This land is strange... I know not where I landed, my men are all dead. The brave men of Pruvia could not weather this storm. Irony not intended... I hope at least some made it out. Taylor was a good Mayor, and a brave soldier...

 

It's warm, not unpleasant. My armor is lost down under at the bottom of the water along with the rest of our things. I spent a day diving under, recovering my Crown and my Blade, both gifts from Emperor Godfrey, my grandfather, to my father Alexander I, Creator rest his soul.

 

Let's see where we go from here.. I hear some shouting a good distance away...

 

Two days later

I've arrived in Abresi... Boiendl is same as ever, and owns a Tailoring shop. My uncle and adopted father Horen V greets me with as much joy as he can, and the Emperor hosts me in a room in the Palace, setting up a room for me but I'd rather live secluded.

 

I hear Ager is nice... Might live there.

 

14th Sun's Smile, 1429

I've been in Ager for a few days now. I've removed myself from Oren politics. It feels good, and I can finally settle now.

 

The people are nice, and I don't tell me last name, I'm simply Patrick to them. Lord Throdo and Lord Patrick are of course good hosts, and we often dine on good meals, and rustle the finest of jimmies late into the evening.

 

18th Sun's Smile 1429

I've taken to wandering the forests often. It's nice, and the ruins are always fascinating and filled with trinkets of ages long past. I hear the Teutonic Order has begun battle with strange beings in the North.

 

Strange times are coming...

 

7th Snow's Maiden 1431

It's been so long...

 

But I found something. Two skulls in a battered old chest turned over. I found two corpses by it, stab wounds were apparent, and looted of all valuables.

 

I feel a strange attachment to them... Hmm... Perhaps this requires investigation?

 

23 Grand Harvest 1431

Hah! I knew it... They're angeuls! The skulls are the forms of an Angeul and a Daemon to be precise. They know quite a bit... The interworkings of Oren, and my own history even.

 

Truly this is proof enough. They've taken up the names Octavian and Augustus. Interesting, they have the feel of Flay names about them since Prince the Bandit took up the name Augustus Flay...

 

15th Sun's Smile 1435

By the Creator... It's happened. They said it would! Octavian and Augustus! They said the Dragon would Depart and leave us all to burn...

 

Pertinax went mad and slew those he saw in the Abresi Square, not says after Horen V took his loyalist Nobles and Soldiers with him.

 

Who will be Emperor now? Are there even any left?

 

16th Sun's Smile 1435

Kais O'Shais Ishikwa is named Regent of Oren until an Heir is found, I suspect it won't be lo- What was that? I heard the screech of battle... I must go

 

19th Sun's Smile 1435

Undead assaulted Abresi, Shas O'Kais Ishikawa led the men and women of Oren bravely and we repelled the menace. And then shortly after, a day or two, William Horen III was named Emperor.

 

My dearest cousin and adopted brother always did deserve more. I am to be his escort up to the Throne. Octavian and Augustus said this day would come...

 

20th Sun's Smile 1435

He was crowned in the largest coronation in the history of Anthos, Asulon, and Aegis. Truly a landmark, he plans to end this silly war with the Dwarves. Vain as he is, I suspect he will do well.

 

Octavian and Augustus say he will fall but I believe they are wrong. Time will tell

 

I've also taken the name Nero, Patrick was me before, now I am Nero.

 

Dreams have been more frequent. I burn Abresi... It's glorious, the gates are locked and I hear the screams of the unworthy, the impure. I slay the courtroom, Daniel Kamura's head piked in front of me, Adorellan eviscerated, Silus has his face ripped off, and William is hung from his guts. The rest and torn limb from limb.

 

The dragon above the throne burns me to a crisp and I love it, the pain is... Different. Not like I've had any other time in my life. I laugh and wake up covered in sweat, smiling and laughing like I do in my dream.

 

I swear Abresi will burn...

 

14th Frost Fall 1436

Aha... Pius the idiot. He tried to take William's Throne. I've also been made Grand Inquisitor. In other words, as I predicted under the guidance of Octavian and Augustus, Pontiff Owyn, who was regent, split Oren. The damn traitor. Damn him to the Nether, he made himself King! His flesh will decorate my walls.

 

18th Grand Harvest 1436

He abdicated... Damn him. I'll live in exile then. William abdicated to Siegmund Carrion. SIEGMUND CARRION! The fool... I warned him... I told him... Oh how I told him... I will still burn Abresi

 

THE DEAD WILL RISE AND THE CITY WILL BURN.

 

STRIP THE FLESH AND SALT THE WOUND!

 

17th First Seed 1449

I've been allowed into Oren, Owyn's claims against me are false. I live with William. now Count and Chancellor. Horen will rise again, and soon the new Abresi will be burnt at my hand.

 

I've buried Octavian and Augustus... Their words are too much. They hurt when they talk... They spite me, even now I hear them but it's dull and it's so much more quiet. But the dreams still happen, every night for a decade. Will it happen? Yes. I know it, but the rest know th- *the journal entry cuts off into mad scribbles*

 

18th First Seed 1449

They know! I have to tell them... Absolution and Willaim! they have to! Octavian and Augustus scream into my ear... They taunt me and seek to break me but you cannot break what is not there! Or will they again and I end them all?

 

I will ride my horse, but even as I walk they send visions to me, the flesh of my enemies decorate my walls, a head with it's brain bare, as I dine on it.

 

The flesh is sweat in my mouth, the blood from their corpses black and bitter, and it fills my lungs, I gurgle and drink more.

 

William lay crucified upside down and stripped to the muscle, his crown on his head, nailed there and made of thorns!

 

HOUND OF FIRE RUN THROUGH ABRESI! THEY HUNT THE INNOCENT IN PACKS!

 

LEGIONS OF DEMONS FLAY THE DYING AND EAT THEIR FLESH!

 

And they all hold my banner... The Demon King... Nero the Mad...

 

My end comes...

 

*A sketch is seen below*

 

 

Notes made by Horen scribes

 

Nero was eventually killed, mercifully by Overseer Absolution, unsure of what he spoke of giving to Count William and the Overseer. It's assumed it was all a dillusion, but nobody could know with Nero. He abused his child Magnus Horen to the point where the boy of 10 years old now, was almost made a sociopath were it not for the work of Frederick Barrow, bastard of King Heinrik Carrion, and Lancel Hightower in addition to the Count William himself.

 

In the end Nero was mad, and his journal published as a side note in Horen history, and a warning to others the risk of Madness in all of us. Proof is seen by a copy of the will of Nero, with much of it oddly written with a sane hand.

 

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/103897-a-madmans-demise/

 

Stay pious, know the Truth and your fate is one of sanity. 

[Redbaron™ 690]

Lancel Hightower, now old in years, hears about one of the last members of old Oren pass into the seven skies.  He feels nothing but sadness, not for the man who died, but for the memories that are slowly fading and all reminiscent people of such a grand time slowly passing to dine with Godfrey.

[Birdwhisperer 1174]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.