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The Dark Shadows of History, the Fall of Strength (Story).

Jenrak
24-04-2005, 16:43
OOC:Alright, for those who have RPed with me before, as my modern tech, they'll probably know that I a religious fanatic, and my country is technically a major theocracy, and there are usually vague references to 'Ascherach' the Living Empire, and the two gods my country worships, Nuir Enkur and Ciranaar Arkszen. I've decided, instead of writing a factbook or something about it, that I'll show the history of Ascherach, right from Enkur's beginning reign to the fall of Ascherach at the battle of Sasz Eren. You can Tag but please don't post anything else.

IC:

Echoes rambled out the hallway, with long swords gleaming amongst the statues of guardians that befell them. Sunlight crept past the pine trees that leapt high into the sky, and the clouds were thick and heavy rain, as the droplets of water were as clear as day.

Grass billowed around the building, as the giant fortress of Gurag-Das gloomed around the green natural world. Soon, in times ahead, there would be no green for the world, no bright sun to greet them in the morning. It would be dark, as black as his heart, as poorly seen throughout as his eyes, and the empire he would create would be as alive as his evil purposes would take him. For he, as dictated by the prophecies of older than him, that his power alone could afford the ancients glory.

Stood amongst the giant fortress, in his glorious tower, was a tall man, a tall powerfully built man, a man of massive strength, and great armor covered his entire body, where a long robe sashed around his metal woves. Through a thick iron mask, as heavy as the stones themselves, laid two empty black eyes, and no hair, but a dark motionless face, and a creeping intent. In his left fist laid a long barrage of spikes, and in his right were an array of blades, as the hung and shined with the blood of many victims of his strength, alongside his back bearing giant blades that shook the earth, and rattled stone foundations. On his robes, laid the tourney of his pain, a giant claw of red fire, and a bleak sunsetting world that could have laid beyond.

For he, as he called himself, was Nuir Enkur, the one who would unite this barbaric land, and under his fist, his strength and testaments of will, shall his power instead steadfast. His armor made no sound when he moved, but the giatn echoes of his footsteps followed him around whenever he walked within the stone hallows of his castle. Large is was, almost as strong as he was. It was, to his design, undefeatable, and he was sure that is was so. Entire layers, and a network of tunnels miles afast, laid underneath the castle, and the burgeoning towers screamed at night with pain and sorrow of his victims.

Down the steps he took, towards his empty hall, was within the stone room there laid assortments of many weapons of torture. Nuir Enkur walked apast, and took a massive blade, and with his test of strength, threw his blade onto the grass outside. It flew a long journey, until it stabbed itself defiantly into the dirt, and a dirty water spurted out of the grass, as if the earth itself bleeded under his command. War was coming, and if the Muruns would not submit, then he would take their city down piece by piece with his army.

It was already three days, and he is an impatient man. Gathering up his strength, he left his empty castle to rally his men at the edgecombes of the silver mountains within east. Every step he took aboard the grass made a grey mark, as no more grass no longer grew there, as if his spirit was salt to the earth. He was determined to show everything that defied his will the death that awaited him. He would not stop until he unified every single shred and assimilated it unto his own, in his tongue, 'Ascherach', the Living Empire.
Jenrak
24-04-2005, 18:09
Long, ardous, painful the journey felt to him, with the beating sun basking over his armored back, but he kept giong, so strong his endurance. Over mountains and valleys he trudged, unwavering, with his swords and his weapons at his back, and wrists, until he laid his black eyes upon the shivering city of Murun, a breath of battle within the infinite war that would follow.

Commanders and legions awaited his every command, as they groveled and bowed lowly to his feet, ignoring the essential motives of war and battle. Whispering within the confines of his cruel soul, as a black wind forges around the city, he spoke carefully to his foremost captain. "Is this the city that cannot be fallen?" He asked warily to his captain, his cruelty and malice at full circle.

Beyond his eyesight, laid the trappings of the city of Murun, a vast system of castles and fortifications, all lines along the edges of mountains. Bleak air followed the castle, with arroheads jabbing through the windows of the peering, lumbering barracks now and then. Snipers with bows watched intently, and bolts of crossbowman awaited under the slanted armouries outside. Stone figures contracted the river nearby, making naval assaults impossible, as the lake at the back of the city glimmered sorrow for the nearby war that follows. Murun was imporant to them. If the city falls, then it is inevitable that a string of surrender would follow, so strong and powerful the city is, and so small and dainty the force Enkur rallied to his will.

"We cannot defeat them, great lord." The captain whispered dangerously in his ear. "We must surrender." It was a mistake to have whispered tidings of surrender in the ears of Enkur.

"No mistake, captain. Your work is not needed." Enkur replied. As he spoke those words, he grappled the captain's neck, and with a great lunge of strength, threw his mangling body at the city below, arrow fire zooming up from all places in the forts. Not only did this rid him of a frightful captain, a heretic fool who did not know how to show power, but also it revealed the locations of the archers.

"Deploy the Swarms." He murmured, as a straw haired and sickly captain heeded his orders, and yelled loudly to his reigments.

"Activate the trebuchets!" He yelled, massive plates of metal swinging up around the ends of the plains, fiery stone slabs across the stockhold. Glaring at the sun, the clouds frightful of the fire that smoked around, the Swarm was a long line of trebuchets, thought to have been built personally be Enkur himself. Strings fired off into the distance, and heavy rock followed their path. Arrowfire attempted to sway the directions of the fire, but it burst into the rocks and the stone forts of Murun.

"Keep the siege lasting." Enkur commanded imperiously, walking down into the city's centers, where arrow fire bounced harmlessly off his armor, snipes unable to pierce his defensive robes and his massive swords, many feet long, stained with blood of previous battles, shook into the stone walls and shattered life and rock itself. Soldiers came out to engage him, but a swipe of his sword sent a legion flying, as archers could do nothing from afar.

He swiped again unto the ground, and a shaking feeling wracked the nearby soldiers when moved onwards towards him. Chunks and slabs of stone slipped out whenever he slashed the soft underbodies of the castles, and panicking yells were heard when Enkur's men followed. The siege had begun, and alone, Enkur was doing much damage to his enemies. He was sure his actions would have placed an effort into his meanings.
Jenrak
25-04-2005, 00:15
Fire blazed like ribbon, and the sky teared out rain to try and quell the everlasting bloodlust for power. Enkur rallied throughout the once thought unbreakable fortresses as they laid crippled, only a fragment of their former majesty, the many towered pedestals of the city of Murun crumbling under his feet, the giant fortress unable to withstand his onslaught.

Stone danced off in the distance, and the clouds smoked up the cities as the fragrant grass pilfered the pain that existed. Enkur, with all of his malice at his disposal, wracked a great damage to the city, with pieces in ruins, when he suddenly gestured his metal fingers for his legions to flood in, impossibly unrelentlessly. What happened next was not in his favour.
Jenrak
30-04-2005, 16:41
Barbarian warcries yelled out briskly amongst the dew that laid itself on the grass, and the sun rose like a great weapon of their strength. Enkur turned his malicious head around to peer deeply at the marauding militia, as they rammed themselves foolishly into the ends of his trebuchets, strings ripping off and the metal slipping into pieces.

Drawing upon his strength, the giant beast ran towards the outer chasms of the city, preparing his srivue stance, and leapt across the bridge towards his foes. Barbarians, as idiotic as they were, could not contemplate their great foe.

Heads flew in every direction, oceans of blood glimmering off into the river behind them, arrowheads falling harmlessly off Enkur's steaming and massive armor. His swords slashed down relentlessly, and the cries and yells of many barbaric warriors echoed off as they retreated. Something was wrong; barbarians did not move such as this - they had organized into an army.

Enkur took his thoughts off the fleeing legions for a while, and refocused the siege of Murun. It would not be long before it fell.