Here you go Kesperan
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I oversaw the completion of Gateheaven's defenses
and the utter hell we loosed upon the poor souls of this misbegotten world.
We opened the gates to our trap halls, but forbade all of our fortress to leave less they be brutally killed. We planned for things to go as normal: Doors open, travelers rush in and out ahead of the siege, humans and elves fight over our front door and the survivors charge in to be blended by weaponized machines.
Things became complicated and I will try to explain at my best.
The rush of travelers happened as expected, but as the last ones were leaving they saw the human army preparing to enter the trap hall. In fear, one of the travelers revealed himself as a necromancer and raised every single corpse in the trap hall. Most of the travelers had not finished entering the fort yet and so the hall broke up into one massive fight as poets, scholars, musicians and mercenaries from all across the world were surrounded by undead.
It was a meat grinder and as people fell and died they were raised again as ghouls to continue fighting.
Then the human army came. What I describe to you now is exactly how I always imagined hell must be like:
Half the human army descended to the base of the hall to fight the undead horde and travelers, only after butchering the few travelers who were still above.
The other half attempted to traverse the hall to reach our fort.
The ones attempting to reach our fort got to hear the whirl and drilling of machines and the sickening sound of meat being sliced and bones broken. Those not eviscerated were launched into the pit landing amongst hungry and rage filled dead.
It was raining blood and body parts upon the fighters at the bottom of the pit.
Those at the bottom continued as another necromancer attempting to leave raised even more dead and now damned slayers too.
Killing, killing, killing. I saw one man crawl along the ground desperately seeking to escape as an elf ghoul gestured her hand at him and caused his body agony and would throw him against the floor. She did so over and over and over as his blood flowed.
Horse and Camel skeletons reaped the most bloody harvest as the rain of blood continued above.
Despite overwhelming numbers, skill, weapons and armor the human army could not meet the endless horde of merciless death.
When the battle, finally, mercifully ended, only a handful of ghouls remained. Killed and raised over and over again until their minds were shattered completely. They stare helplessly up at the ceiling of the hall unable or unwilling to move at all.
We have become death and we should feel some regret for our part in this creation, but I do not. For not a single dwarf of Gateheaven died in this siege.
Thus all this horror is...acceptable.
Did our death toll reach the tens of thousands you think? We saw two sieges per season and three in winter and each one had 120-150 combatants, plus pillaging, plus our own deaths, plus all the travelers who'd get butchered by the humans...
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