I genned up an awesome new world, this one High Savagery, and while browsing through Legends to get a feel for it I realized that it is literally the coolest world I've yet seen. It's probably because I slightly modded the game so elves, dwarves, and goblins all build forts.
There's this human civilization called the Nation of Steel. It was founded by a hero named Akir Bedsprayed, who wet the bed in a time before time before wandering out of the West with the first of the First Men. He helped found the city of Wardsuns, then was made law-giver on a wave of popular support. The land prospered under his rule, as many cities and towns were built that yet stand today, but inevitably a tortoise demon posing as a god had him exiled and took his place. After he was exiled Akir wandered the wilds, dueled with the most badass Bronze Colossus in the world, and after a few years died of old age.
The organizations inside the Nation of Steel (sub-entities?) all have cool names. I can't remember them off the top of my head, but the two that come to mind had "Defense" and "Lances" in their names. And all the cities they built had cool names.
And then that tortoise demon took over and turned the Nation of Steel into an evil empire. He created the position of War Leader and gave it to a powerful Necromancer. Not long after the position of General was created and a badass human named Ur installed himself in that position. Together they put together an army thousands strong and conquered half the known world, brutalized a barbaric nation of frosty badass goblins called The North Terrors, and wiped out all but a handful of the elves on the continent. In the end, a coalition of men, dwarves, a single elf, and goblins banded together to make a last stand against the Nation. They numbered less than nine hundred and fought a force of over two thousand. The elf managed to kill General Ur, but by the time the dust settled that elf wasn't among the sixty remaining Defenders.
The General that replaced Ur was an even bigger and scarier badass. Naturally I created a character for the explicit purpose of bringing down this new General, the Necromancer War Leader, and the Demon Law-Giver.
The first city I entered turned out not to be Wardsuns, and as soon as I left the Travel map everybody in the market started converging on me...
^^^taken AFTER the slaughter began
I killed 280+ people including a noble lady, but none of my intended targets. Merchants, farmers, dwarf civilians, a few tough-as-nails soldiers, all fell before the might of my bronze longsword. The entrance to the city's central fort was piled high with the dead. The courtyard was carpeted with yet more corpses, broken arrows, and ankle deep blood. Early on I got myself cornered, but I managed to set myself to "Charge" and break free. Both of my feet were still maimed so I could only crawl, but it was too late - my character had become so skilled at dodging that even on his stomach he was untouchable. I wanted to rename him "Snake."
That was the first wave. After a while the townspeople fled out the gates. I thought that would be the end of it, but then I dragged myself back out into the courtyard... and those who had fled all got their courage back. Again and again, pushing me back into the courtyard each time.
Each wave that came left more and more dead, until finally my character was so skilled and the townspeople so few in number I just waded (or crawled, more like) out into the market and painted everything red. I put the whole town to the sword. Every man, every woman, every child, every pet. I stopped even paying attention to the combat feeds and started just spamming the arrow keys until everything around me drowned in blood.
When the last of the wounded were made silent my character became hungry, so he ate his first meal.
He was thirsty, so he slaked his thirst with the blood of the still-warm dead.
He was tired, so he crawled out into the wilderness and gave in to starvation.
A fitting end for a crippled adventurer, I think. I still have no idea why the townsfolk attacked me... but at least my adventurer can finally get some sleep. Forever.
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