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[I] Tyranny - Fatebinder Smoakz · Brave-Smoke Plays

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  Over 400 years, the armies of Kyros the Overlord have swept across the known world.
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  All who stood against them fell before their might.
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  Even the Archons, women and men of immense power, were forced to kneel, chained to the
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  Overlord's will.
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  Now Kyros' final conquest has come to our corner of the world, and two of the Overlord's armies
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  compete for the honor of taking our lands.
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  The elite disfavored, and the teeming horde of the Scarlet Chorus.
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  The voices of Narad, Spymaster and Archon of Secrets, guides the fierce and undisciplined
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  masses of the Scarlet Chorus.
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  With each battle, the Scarlet Chorus grows stronger as the defeated are given a simple
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  choice, serve or die.
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  Graven Ash, Archon of War and the Overlord's most loyal general, leads the disfavored.
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  Though small in number, Kyros' ironclad legion has never met true defeat in open battle.
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  Watching over the two generals is T'unon, the adjudicator, Archon of Justice, eldest of
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  Kyros' minions.
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  T'unon brings Kyros' laws to newly conquered lands, aided by the Fatebinders, Judges
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  and Executioners of the Overlord's laws.
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  You are among the youngest of the court of Fatebinders when Kyros' armies came
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  to our lands.
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  How could we have known that the fate of thousands would rest in your hands?
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  All the world has fallen to Kyros, and now the Overlord's eye is on the tears, our home.
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  The last corner of the world free of Kyros' reign.
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  Two armies, the disfavored and the Scarlet Chorus, march south from the Northern Empire,
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  the last realm to fall to Kyros a century prior.
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  In the early days of 428, Kyros' armies arrive at the Gates of Judgment, the mountainous
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  border that we Tearsmen so long believed unassailable.
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  Unable to agree on a unified plan of defense, the various leaders of the Tears sit and
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  wait for each other to deal with the conquerors, until it's too late.
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  The year is 431, and Kyros' invasion has shattered all major opposition in the Tears,
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  the younger realms, the bastard Tear, the free cities.
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  All who defied Kyros lay broken by battle, or bowed in surrender.
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  The two armies of the Overlord, the disfavored and the Scarlet Chorus, now control our
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  lands.
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  But our will is not yet extinguished, not entirely.
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  In the valley of Vendrian's Well, those of us unwilling to bow to Kyros have banded together
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  in defiance.
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  Violating an oath of surrender from two years prior, we have staged a bloody uprising,
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  murdering the disfavored and Scarlet Chorus Garrison in a midnight assault.
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  With their main forces spread across the Tears, the disfavored and Scarlet Chorus redeploy
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  to Vendrian's Well to crush the resistance, but months pass with no definitive battle.
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  As disagreement and discord paralyze the Archons, we bide our time and wait for
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  our message of insurrection to spread across the Tears.
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  The Overlord is not amused, and Kyros has one message for the Archons, crush the Oathbreakers
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  or die.
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  Kyros backs this threat with an edict, a magical commandment that can slay all in the valley
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  should the order be ignored.
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  The honor of proclaiming this edict fell to you.
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  Sent across the mountains to Vendrian's Well, you carry the Overlord's Edict to read before
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  the Archons.
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  As you finally make your way through the winding mountain passes into the valley, the
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  ground trembles, and Kyros' magic seals the way behind you.
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  You are trapped in Vendrian's Well, with Kyros' armies and the Oathbreakers.
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  The only way to survive is to fulfill the terms of the Overlord's Edict in any way
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  that you can.