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When I awoke, there was no light.
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Days passed before I could pull myself from that wretched darkness. I emerged,
ragged and bearded, from the ruins of our home, The Citadel. Only then, finally,
did I understand.
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All was lost. Our Enemy had won.
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It was impossible to tell how much time had passed. But my people were gone.
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All the lands had been emptied of civilisation. Roads collapsed back into nature.
Villages returned to scattered rock. Fields were already mere suggestions between
the woodlands.
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Now only one path remains: the path to the Enemy. I reach out with my mind to where
the great evil is still abroad - insane, and gloating amidst the ruins of our
world.
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I must summon my strength. My mind, fogged by years of unnatural slumber, reels at
this reality. Can I regain the distant powers that I wielded long ago? I failed my
people once. Would I do so again?
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#Chapter,1,2
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Desolation. Everything abandoned. And yet… there is a figure on the road ahead.
Brother, oh brother, let us meet and speak of what misfortune has befallen our
sweet Mercia!
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Something snarls beneath the ragged hood. If it had once been human, then it is no
more. This poor creature is hollowed out by a malign power. With a grim
determination, I remember my purpose.
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That vanquished creature had once been a son of my people, I was certain. A
descendant of one of these peaceful villages, dehumanised by the hand of the Enemy.
I was resolved now. There must be blood.
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#Chapter,2,1
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I mourn my lonely road. What I would give to see a friendly face, or to receive a
kind gesture. Yet I take solace in nature: the sound of running water, the flicker
of birds, lively among the blossom.
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Over and again I reach for the moments before the end. How did I come to be trapped
beneath the ruins of our home? Why would the Enemy leave me, the most implacable
defender of my people, free to walk this Earth again?
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Thoughts flick around me like insects in the light. I am missing something, but
what?
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#Chapter,2,2
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Alas, not even our natural world remains untainted by the Enemy's hand! Even now
the creature hungers and loathes the human form. I must fight to protect myself, as
I once tried to protect these lands!
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#Chapter,2,3
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My heart tremors. We once visited these places on the festival days, bedecked with
garlands, my lover's hand in mine...
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Priests and sorcerers once communed with the living world and drew both power and
wisdom from the fabric of the universe. Perhaps I too can gather a splinter of what
remains.
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#Chapter,2,4
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Yes, a little power remains in these sacred places! Magic abides and I must draw on
it, taking from this world the last drops of strength, just as I wring the last
fragments of will from my own shattered body.
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Perhaps, if I can find enough of these places of sacred strength, I can be the man
I was, so long ago.
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#Chapter,2,5
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More of these ravaged creatures await me! They are scavengers, which gives me hope
that I might meet one of those that they scavenge upon...
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#Right,None

#Chapter,2,6
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Another antagonist blocks the road ahead of me. A hulking, swollen form that I
recognise as once having been a Fey creature - one of the spirits of the deep outer
forests and mountains.
#Left,Text
Once such beasts helped us in our struggles, but its form has been corrupted, and I
will receive no aid from its like now. To battle!
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#Chapter,2,End
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There is little better sign of the awful method of the Enemy than the corruption of
beings like the Fey. They were once gentle, strong creatures seeking to heal the
rift between man and the natural world. Now - nothing more than monsters.
#Left,Text
I once glimpsed the Fey and their great Stag God, travelling through the deep
wilderness. The Enemy's grim power has cut all that away, leaving this world a
hollow place. Perhaps, in time, it will find a way to heal, and to return.
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First though, I must cut out the rot.
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#Chapter,3,1
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I remember the bloody day I marched down these time-worn paths to take the fight to
our foe, my family at my side. This time, I walk them alone. Already I can hear the
evil at the end of this road, a harsh, distant voice echoing toward me.
#Left,Text
I knew this village! It was filled with life and love. Now strange, hulking things
stalk the misted valleys, without even the cry of a bird to pierce their silence.
#Right,bandit3
#Left,Text
There is humanity here, but it is a broken thing. These mindless bandits, unable
even to utter their demands, and the twisted creatures that prey on each other in
the woods... All shall fall to my blade.
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#Right,None

#Chapter,3,3
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How the Enemy's magic relentlessly grips this land! The creature ahead of me, once
a peaceful denizen of the woods, appears scorched and transformed by deliberate
malice. It is with sorrow that I ready myself against its withered approach.
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#Chapter,3,5
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Grim echoes of the past reach me as I walk. I remember another journey, long ago,
with companions gathered from all across the realm. What bright prospects awaited
us! And then, into shadow...
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I stand under a scattered sky and think for a moment on its indifferent enormity:
the silent circle of the planets. The void beyond. I must endure, a guttering flame
amidst the clustering darkness. I alone remain.
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#Chapter,3,7
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Here and there, I see signs that this land is not defeated: the bud of a flower,
the whirl of a bee on the cold wind. There is intense beauty in these moments. A
beauty that will save the world.
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#Chapter,3,9
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Another pocket of sacred power lies ahead! Perhaps this will enable me to push
beyond the deepening weakness that gnaws at my bones.
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#Chapter,3,10
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Ghastly emanations, and a sense of horror engulf me. There is something ahead
unlike that which I have faced before. Not merely man, fey, or beast, but something
wreathed in tortured sorcery.
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#Left,Text
Behold, that servant of the Enemy! These grim beings are entwined in cursed magic.
It drags me in like a tarpit. I must not waver!
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#Chapter,3,End
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Now onwards. I am stronger still, and I am wiser, for all that I am alone. In my
mind I recall sunlit uplands and the healing presence of lilting music. These
fleeting memories are all I have.
#Left,Text
Once I cross the mountains, things will change. If the Enemy had power in the west,
then beyond that spine of the world, the forces will be concentrated further. I
must remain on guard. Resolute and steadfast.
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#Chapter,4,1
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Yet again I am plagued by doubt and mystery: Why me? Why am I not with my people in
the underland? How did I survive the terrible finale of our struggle? These
questions pull at me like threads of fate.
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I remember the councils of war. The warriors who relied on me to use my powers for
good. The brave souls who joined battle with the Enemy. All are dust now, in the
wind.
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Through the dread mountains at last, and down into lands which have always known
trouble. Ahead of me, swamps, and beyond that the valleys of abandoned kingdoms.
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#Chapter,4,4
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There are many paths on this slope of the mountains, where the people of the swamp
villages would ascend the peaks and hide their treasures, or pray to the sky.
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I walked among them once, and watched them tie bright ribbons to the last tree
before the bare peak. They fluttered in the wind, red and gold.
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#Chapter,4,7
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Ahead the swamp is vast. I remember fishing for eels here as a child. Watching the
black birds pick at a carcass. Perhaps that was a premonition of this reality.
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I shrug away these visions. I must remain determined. Onward!
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#Chapter,4,8
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The people of these marshes seem to have suffered a far grimmer fate than even
those in my own lands. Something, somehow, has sewn them up, piece by festering
piece, to fight again. They are violated in mind and in form. I will give them
rest.
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#Chapter,4,9
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These enclaves echo with the good intentions of the people who visited them. There
is a deep history here, and its vibrations have filtered into the very bedrock.
With my art, I shall draw upon that power.
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#Chapter,4,11
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The malevolent river is slow, but uncrossable. I can only hope that the bridge
remains intact. Even with my power there is nothing I can do to cross the plagued
waters which lie between me and the Enemy lands beyond.
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#Chapter,4,12
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I should have known that the Enemy would not leave a crossing unguarded. Even with
all my people in the ground, a lieutenant of evil awaits me.
#Right,Text
Welcome, brother. We shall dance together this day. And even if you defeat me, a
legion of my kind awaits you.
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Forgive yourself, slave of the night! I shall be your undoing!
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#Chapter,4,End
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The bridge stands. It will not stand much longer, but what remains will be enough
to get me to the far bank.
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#Chapter,5,1
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I dream of the land of the dead. A great black wall, and beyond it a gentle
darkness, in which twinkling lights abide. I should be with them. Why am I not with
them?
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I focus for a moment and feel the distant drag of my Enemy. That pull. I can feel
the power. The grim waves of it lapping on the shores of my mind. Soon we shall be
together.
#Left,Text
Fragments of the past return to me as I walk this dead road. The battles we fought
against the Enemy. The losses, my own family fleeing and then cut down! The pain is
dull, like axe blows striking my very core. I sag as I walk.
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#Chapter,5,2
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Despite this grim bog, I feel blessed. Some invisible but determined hand guides
me. Together we go onwards into these harrowed lands.
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#Chapter,5,3
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I thought I would never emerge from the waterlogged pit of this endless mire. Only
the wards I have fashioned against bog creatures have kept me safe as I slept.
Everything is swollen with water. Rotting.
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But I can see distant peaks now. The final act of geology before we reach the
desolation of the Enemy. I can feel the surging power beyond.
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#Chapter,5,5
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There is a stark beauty to these places. I wish there were some way to share it,
some spectator for whom I could express the lonely majesty of these wilds. Alas, I
walk alone.
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#Chapter,5,7
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A holy place of great antiquity. These perfect shrines were visited by people from
so long ago that their only trace in our world is held in stories, and in stones.
If only we could be so remembered.
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#Chapter,5,8
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A deep, sombre forest swallows the meagre sunlight. Around me, dark beasts make
unfamiliar cries in the gloom.
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#Chapter,5,10
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#Left,Text
My senses have returned such that I can feel the ambush before it occurs. I cannot
see my foe just yet, but their being is like a dark song on the evening air.
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#Chapter,5,11
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I search for other memories to guide me - my beloved teacher telling that virtue
would always be attacked more by the wicked than loved by the good. Oh, how little
he knew the truth of it.
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#Chapter,5,12
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The air changes. Where before was simply the humid air of these restless valleys,
now something else arises, a creature from the past.
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We must fight. I cannot do otherwise. Forgive me, gentle mage.
#Left,Text
Like the boars and other creatures I had seen, it is colonised by fungus! Oh, what
a piteous fate. I forgive you, cursed one. Let us end this.
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#Left,Text
Once again, I have cleared the path ahead of me. Once again, I feel the pull, like
a current in deep water, towards where the Enemy awaits me. I pause, for a moment,
and wonder if there could be any other course of action.
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#Chapter,6,1
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The power of the old world, untapped by anyone save the monstrous parasitic
leeching of the Enemy, lies beneath the surface of everything.
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I recall something my teacher once told me: that we are here because the world
needs a witness. It needed eyes with which to see itself, and a heart to break.
#Left,Text
That is why we cannot be extinguished from this universe, no matter how grim the
challenges that befall us. We were meant to be here, or there would be nothing at
all.
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#Chapter,6,3
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I pass the fallen in the forests and the bleak places. Here a skeletal hand between
ferns, and there a skull among the bog flowers. A lily for a tongue.
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#Chapter,6,4
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#Left,Text
No shadow can cross my path now and slow my progress. Faith that the old powers
must be restored rushes through me, inevitable as the summer sun.
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#Chapter,6,5
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Our Enemy was not always this way, of course. It slowly became a creature that saw
the world as a challenge to overcome, when in truth it is a garden, which must be
allowed to bloom. Here and there, I sense that happening.
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Alas, I must face another of those beings which the Enemy has corrupted. I am
sorry, friend. It can be no other way.
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#Chapter,6,6
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Nature can go down two paths: one of temporary balance, and one of fleeting
imbalance. The imbalance always leads to a correction. Perhaps I am the correction
in this place of corruption.
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#Chapter,6,7
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My own path led me away from the occult and out into the landscape. It was there
that I found true power. In the healing strength of the world beyond the walls of
our libraries. Study is merely a precursor to raw appreciation.
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#Chapter,6,10
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A tumbling rock. Is there someone there? No, something. I sense it before I see it.
Another denizen of the shadows, warped and colonised by the power of the Enemy.
#Left,Text
I would give anything to be able to lay down and not fight this creature. Yet I
must. I am sorry, old friend, but our mutual foe leaves me no choice.
#Left,None
#Right,None

#Chapter,6,End
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#Left,Text
I lay you to rest at last. No more will you be enslaved to evil. Fly now, over the
wall, and out into the land of your kin. They await you in the dream woodlands of
forever.
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#Chapter,7,1
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In the distance I can see the tower, looming. It takes everything I have not to
make straight for it. For the tower is death.
#Left,Text
The tower was our Enemy's first act: a beautiful siren structure to which people
would flock in awe. And then: to corruption.
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#Chapter,7,2
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Fixing my gaze on the horizon I head out. Perhaps I can cross the river to avoid
the tower's abyssal pull.
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#Chapter,7,3
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Ugh, the grim drag of the tower is like a hook in my mind. I feel the world tilting
towards it, like water rushing down, into the Earth.
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#Chapter,7,6
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Hello there, you lost soul. Did you know that once, when I was a boy, I was saved
by creatures of your kind? It is I who save you, now...
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#Right,None

#Chapter,7,7
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#Left,Text
It was the Enemy's way to build traps for the mind, and for the heart. Before they
had the power to lay waste to the land, they laid waste to the souls of men. That
is how it begins.
#Left,Text
If anyone tells my tale, then they should remember this: evil, like water,
flourishes because it knows how to get in through the cracks. Do the work, and do
not let it find a way.
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#Chapter,7,9
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I stop for a moment, thinking that I hear music on the wind. I make towards it,
lights in the woods ahead of me! But then, nothing. A mirage. An after-image of the
world we lost.
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#Chapter,7,10
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Another blessing: sacred stones lay off into the woods. I can feel their connection
to me through the very earth, pulsing beneath my feet.
#Left,None

#Chapter,7,12
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That song again. And suddenly I understand the source. She sings to me through time
and space. Her magic interwoven with reality like poison through blood-vessels.
#Left,Text
I hear your call, fate's bride. But my power is returning, and there shall be no
stopping me here. I will put you back in the tower. Be ready!
#Left,None
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#Chapter,7,End
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#Left,Text
The scream and unearthly singing fade. I must push forward, although each encounter
like this is a notch in my own fate. Will the world forgive its power being used
for such grim vengeance?
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#Chapter,8,1
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#Left,Text
Now, as I walk, league upon thankless league, I am beginning to lose myself.
#Left,Text
My thoughts rush down to places I would not have them go, and I struggle to keep my
bearings. I stop, trying to be certain. Silence among the dripping trees of the
north.
#Left,Text
Something is terribly wrong in this place.
#Left,None

#Chapter,8,2
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Sadness wells up in me, like cold groundwater in the pitiless dark.
#Left,None

#Chapter,8,5
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#Left,Text
I see spectres, left and right. Figures off in the trees, and then they are gone
again. This path chills me.
#Right,Harrowed1
#Left,Text
Suddenly one of the many spectres fails to vanish, and I face peril again. Another
denizen of the tower. Perhaps this time I shall perish! Blade, do not fail me now.
#Left,None
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#Chapter,8,7
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#Left,Text
Unnatural powers like those wielded by my Enemy are often rife with trickery. Let
us hope that what lies before me is no foul illusion.
#Left,None

#Chapter,8,9
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I cannot shake the feeling of being watched. It is intense, like a terrible light
from nowhere, bearing down on my heart. What is this eldritch feeling?
#Left,None

#Chapter,8,10
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#Left,Text
Terrible thoughts pursue me. A nightmarish, unknowable presence is upon me. I feel
as though some vast skull trails just behind me, lurking, uncanny, beyond my field
of vision. If I could only turn fast enough, I could glimpse it!
#Left,None

#Chapter,8,11
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And so now ahead of me I see a shadow on the road. A mage, walking, endlessly,
alone in this wilderness. He turns and snarls. A familiar demon.
#Right,Text
We should turn back. We should sleep again. We should not follow the path in front
of us. We are making a mistake.
#Left,Text
A demon of my own making: a creature dragged from the Beyond by my own hand. Look,
this is the consequence of vengeance and abuse of power. Now it is my task alone to
overcome it. Let us become one!
#Left,None
#Right,None

#Chapter,8,End
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#Left,Text
The creature is vanquished and a tremendous weight is lifted. Ropes of confusion
fall away from me. I am free again, and filled with light. This road is mine, and
none other may walk it.
#Left,Text
And yet… a whispering in my mind. I strain as if to hear some barely audible sound
in the vastness. What am I missing?
#Left,None

#Chapter,9,1
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#Left,Text
I reach a tipping point, and although my stomach hungers for real, hot food, my
body scintillates with the breath of the world.
#Left,Text
The strength I am gathering from the hidden places and the holy sites now whirls in
my flesh, like great birds soaring in the currents of the sky.
#Left,Text
I fear that when this is over, I shall be a creature not of bones and sinew, but of
faith.
#Left,None

#Chapter,9,2
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#Left,Text
The enchanted inks in my skin are now filled with a life of their own. As I sleep
at night, I know they remain alert, watching and protecting me...
#Left,None

#Chapter,9,3
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#Left,Text
I don't walk alone to this place. The spirits of my people are all around me, just
beyond the edge of my sight. I stop and close my eyes to be with them. And then:
onward!
#Left,None

#Chapter,9,5
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#Right,Skeletal
#Left,Text
Again, a lieutenant of the blight finds itself in my path. Like my own memories,
they are the past kept alive. Kept alive through pure hatred, however, it is a
desecration.
#Left,None
#Right,None

#Chapter,9,6
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#Left,Text
Thoughts of the past travel with me like companions on the road. Foremost among
them the faces of my kin. Is there any more powerful moment than the look of
recognition in a familiar face?
#Left,Text
Out here, utterly alone, I do not feel lost or forlorn, because I carry with me a
bundle of treasures more vital than any other: my anchor to the past. While I walk
this path, those people still live.
#Left,None

#Chapter,9,9
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#Left,Text
At last, another place of power. I must draw on what little remains to push myself
to the final height of strength this world can lend me.
#Left,None

#Chapter,9,10
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#Left,Text
The landscape here becomes increasingly barren. While the Enemy makes puppets of
the living, it is anathema to life itself, and scars the world with its emptiness.
#Left,None

#Chapter,9,11
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#Left,playerready
#Right,Golem2
#Left,Text
Ah, my forsaken brother, what has this fate done to you? Once we were not so
different.
#Left,Text
Now though, we are two sides of an evil coin. Let us see which way it lands...
#Left,None
#Right,None
#Chapter,9,End
#Music,Atmos4Vista
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#Left,Text
The road is clear once more. I feel again as if a hand is guiding me. I look back
over my shoulder, expecting to see someone there. But I see only desolation.
#Left,None

#Chapter,10,1
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#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
Now I stand on the threshold of oblivion. The plunge will be downwards, as the
falcon falls upon the hare.
#Left,Text
I hear the Enemy's heart in the distance, ringing like a cold bell at dawn. It
shall beat its last unnatural rhythm on this day, I swear it.
#Left,Text
The road seems to resist me, as if I walk against the flow of an invisible current.
But I am stronger.
#Left,None

#Chapter,10,4
#Music,Atmos1Druids
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
My animal needs are now desperate. Hunger gnaws at me and I scavenge everywhere for
food.
#Left,Text
In a tiny grove, I found mushrooms and cold, white berries. They are a feast for my
ravaged and weary constitution.
#Left,None

#Chapter,10,5
#Music,Atmos6PrebattlePiano
#Left,playerready
#Right,Harrowed2
#Left,Text
Another escapee from the tower. Hatred and pain have transformed you, I know.
Perhaps I can convince you to change back?
#Left,None
#Right,None

#Chapter,10,6
#Music,Atmos4Vista
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
How long have I wandered now, in the wretched dark of this place? How long did I
slumber, as the Enemy grew stronger?
#Left,Text
Answers, sometimes, are not needed. True satisfaction will be found via action
alone. The power burns in my flesh. I am almost ready.
#Left,None

#Chapter,10,8
#Music,Atmos1Druids
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
There is power still, even here. It will be harder to drag it from the Earth, but
again I must try.
#Left,Text
I go down there now, and perform the ritual amid the stones. My faith burns
stronger.
#Left,None

#Chapter,10,11
#Music,Atmos1Druids
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
I say a gentle prayer and hear the cry of an animal out in the deep wilderness. Is
he also praying to some animal power?
#Left,Text
Perhaps we both visit the stones of power for our own reasons.
#Left,None

#Chapter,10,12
#Music,Atmos7PrebattleStrings
#Left,playerready
#Right,Fey2
#Left,Text
Tragedy bestrides my path. The gentle Fey, now carrying with them the burden of
cruelty that the Enemy imposes.
#Left,Text
Prepare to rest, my friend. The sleep eternal shall be your reward for this grim
imposition.
#Left,None
#Right,None

#Chapter,10,End
#Music,Atmos4Vista
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
The road is running out. I am close now. I look back across the valleys and take a
deep breath. It is good to travel this world, even as it now is. Perhaps I will
walk it again, someday.
#Left,None

#Chapter,11,1
#Music,Atmos5Bleak
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
My road is almost at an end. Everywhere I see the hand of our Enemy. Unnatural
troops are on the march. Perhaps I have awoken the beast.
#Left,None

#Chapter,11,2
#Music,Atmos1Druids
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
The ruins of a world are a fresh slate. Death and defeat are a place for growth: a
tree has fallen in the forest, allowing sunlight to play on the ground beneath.
This is how it shall be.
#Left,None

#Chapter,11,4
#Music,Atmos7PrebattleStrings
#Left,playerready
#Right,FungalKnight
#Left,Text
This creature has been following me since I left the swamps behind. Finally, as I
slept, it caught up with me. Now I shall end its pursuit!
#Left,None
#Right,None

#Chapter,11,6
#Music,Atmos2Desolate
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
The land echoes with the sound of some vast, tortured creature. After a few miles I
realise that this is the sound of the wounded Earth itself.
#Left,Text
The weight of responsibility grows on my shoulders.
#Left,None

#Chapter,11,7
#Music,Atmos5Bleak
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
Nightmare emanations seethe from the citadel ahead of me. I cannot imagine what
horrors would contort the face of reality in this way. Nevertheless, I can only
move forward.
#Left,Text
And yet… anxiety haunts me. This is where I should be, but there is something
amiss.

I close my eyes and think of the meadows I left behind.

#Left,None

#Chapter,11,10
#Music,Atmos6PrebattlePiano
#Left,playerready
#Right,AncientEnemy
#Left,Text
At last, we meet. My vengeance will be complete.
#Right,Text
It took you longer this time, Mage. I see you are confused, even now. Who do you
think allowed you to rise from the tomb of your home?
#Left,Text
What are you saying, serpent?
#Right,Text
Mage, you are my plaything. We have done this dance countless time. Each time it
brings me pleasure.
#Right,Text
There is no better way for me to revisit the memory of my ultimate victory than to
watch your desperate journey, over and over. You are nothing but my toy.
#Left,Text
Suddenly it makes sense. The shadow of myself I met upon the road was not an
adversary, it was some fraction of myself trying to break this awful cycle!
#Left,Text
The gap in my recollection was trying to stop me coming back here. I knew this was
a trick, a vile summoning!
#Left,Text
And yet here I am. Inexorably. There is no way back. Let us fight again, demon, and
we shall see who descends to the tomb.
#Right,Text
Gladly. But you cannot alter the outcome. You are already undone.
#Left,None
#Right,None

#Chapter,11,End
#Music,Atmos4Vista
#Left,playerready
#Left,Text
And so the cycle is broken! I shall not return to that wretched dark. Instead, I
shall walk the Earth, healing and mending the land until the dead will take me.
#Left,Text
It is time for the world to be remade! And it will be, by my hand.
#Left,None