The Shattered Forces

[Jokinghills 825]

The Shattered Forces

~Imperial State Army scattering after battle~

 

 

The battle went on, brother against brother, families broken and children butchered. The Imperial State Soldiers stood bravely against the enemy horde, but mere bravery and will did not prevail against the blades of the enemy.

 

 

As such, the forces shattered.

 

 

Wounded and tired, the men scattered all over, the battle lost, the war lost, their cause in vain.

 

 

Blood flowed through the streets of Providence and the ones remaining alive moved just to survive, to not perish in this tragedy.

 

 

As the sounds of battle cleared, as the bodies lay on the cold floor of the city, the soldiers of the Imperial State Army marched away from the hostile lands.

 

 

A bird sent, a call heard, have the imperial forces perished or do they yet still endure?

[Cjmate 1270]

As Kristofer Vuiller sat on a wagon with his family, fleeing oren, visions of corpses pervade his mind, strewn across the countryside. 

 

For many, it should seem that the land was now at peace, and Oren would mend itself; but between the countless deaths, and the mass exodus of citizens from the countryside, Kristofer Vuiller wondered what would become of Oren, once a bastion of might, with its population nearly halved. And then, he shed a tear: what was the point of fighting Haense and the Dwarves for 15 years, only for Oren to destroy itself at the end of it?

 

Wasted years, he thought, missing his childhood when Oren was stronger.