As the Nations advanced upon them, Honor sung Glory’s Song.
(Folded into the book’s leather cover is a pressed sheet, penned by a different hand than the writings contained within… It appears to be a page torn directly from the journal of some General’s private notes.)
“The Gods stood atop the hill, the Faithful at their side.
Hope had been lost the prior eve,
And Courage the night before.
As the Nations advanced upon them, Honor sung Glory’s Song.”
“The stars themselves mourned that fateful day,
The passing of an age.
The beginning of the end.
Had we known, would we have still marched?”
“The Shield, broken.
Mortality, victorious.
Yet the war machine, unleashed,
Will continue to destroy our World.”
“Once united against a common foe,
Old rivalries remembered,
Old slights magnified,
Our focus lost, we proceed to lose ourselves.”
“Hidden behind the revelry, the victory,
As Leaders saluted their peers,
Others, alas, unsheathed their daggers,
And new Kings were made under that Mountain.”
Apparently Tahln and a few others had separated themselves from the Divine Crusade some years back, initially travelling with the Host to help alleviate the cost and penalty of war to the mortals caught within its reach, and then later leaving as the Host fractured within from infighting – continuing to aid and assist the innocent and victims as they could, even while being hunted by the Soulless.
- Grand Marshal Vincenio
Victory +3 days
