Legacy, Book II of the Corruption Trilogy Options

[Zalphon]

Prologue
4E 512

I knew they were coming. To them, we were bloodthirsty heretics. “May the Aedra and the Daedra aid us,” I prayed. “We have stood against the Kalinians for five years; give us the strength to survive.”

General Quick-Strike walked into the Courtyard. “Prepare to fight the Kalinians with all your might men,” he shouted. “Some of us will die, but they will be remembered forever when the last priest of Kalian Broodikus is slain!”

We were ready to die on the battle-field. We knew that most, if not all of us would die here. Emperor Gregory Matius had sent a battalion to devastate us here at the Ruins of Chorrol. General J’skooma walked in, “J’skooma knows that the above spirits will aid us.” We jogged to the main gate, ready to die for our faith.

“Leave no survivors,” the black-robed High Inquisitor ordered. “For each survivor I find, there will be ten men executed.” The gates burst open and an army of black chain-mail clad soldiers walked in. The chaos that followed rivaled the day that the Kalinians invaded the Imperial City. We were the last survivors and we were about to become extinct.

The High Inquisitor walked to the center of the battle. The Great Oak Tree that once stood here was gone. He muttered under his breath and then a nova of ebon-colored light burned into each of us. I watched my comrades scream in madness. They started killing each other and themselves while they screamed, “Help me, I’m surrounded!” or “They’re all over me.”

Everything went black when one of the Kalinian Clerics hit me in the back of the head with a mace. I awoke sometime later in a cave. “G-General, is that you?” I asked someone standing over me. “I-I-I failed you.”

The Argonian shook his head, “You didn’t fail me, Kelatar; it was I who failed you and everyone else there.” I could sense the despair in his voice, which was rare for an Argonian and almost never seen in the General.

“Where’s General J’skooma?” I asked inquisitively.

“J’skooma nearly died in the fight, but he’s alive. He’s sleeping. Also, you don’t have to call me General anymore…”

“I see, Gen—Quick-Strike.”

“Ashur, get your rest… In the morning we set for the Skingrad. When we arrive, stay close to me,” Quick-Strike ordered. “I have an old contact there that may be able to help us.”

“Hmm,” I thought. “I hope the General knows what he’s doing.”

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