MMP1 - Rathos: First Encounter

The past "The pleas of the unforgiven echoed up to the heavens above. Begging, no demanding to be relieved of the system they had so diligently forged over the last millennia. So the kind souls listening to their screams did. They gave them their solution." The first to be struck from the face of the earth was the monument to their delusions. A tower daring to compete with the heavens, daring to be seen as equal, daring to even exist in the presence of what it desperately tried to emulate. A tower which had been a monument to human resilience, would now become a memorial to its downfall. A lightning strike turned the cool summer night bright as day. The ground around the base of the tower split into a million pieces, the cracks rippling like the disturbed surface at the basin of a waterfall. Spreading fast and wide, leaving no trace of level ground to stand on. No foundation to be trusted. Within an instant the once proud city standing beside the looming tower up above had been levelled. Each body laid to rest incinerated to fine ash. The stench of burned flesh rising as the debris settled below. The present A vast expanse of lives forgotten, history buried under the rubble of a once central point of the empire. The eerie feeling of insignificance keeping the onlookers away out of fear to be truly confronted with the pity and shame to realise ones own voyeuristic tendencies. A graveyard to not only its people but to its pride as a nation. Once undefeated now slowly turning to nothing, as erosion took its toal, returning what had been hers to begin with back to the earth. Its greatest fear becoming reality. Meaninglessness. Neither god, nor man nor nature ruling the deadlands. A war fought for a land nobody wanted. Just the certainty that the promise of change was a lie. No gods or master changing the future of these cursed lands. To cross it, is to accept certain death. Insanity taking a deaf kings place. Giving orders, but receiving no pleas. tI-I3 Fv+Ur3

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