The Price of Defiance (event)
The full might of Adabyss has proven itself to be truly undefeatable. The grand host they sent against us, blessed with all manner of miracles, has completely destroyed my army, our weapons barely able to touch their soldiers. Their airships have rained fire from the sky, catching the jungle alight as they carved their path through it.
Though I tried for so long to escape them, I have been caught. In a desparate last stand, my personal guards raise their shields against the waves of crossbow bolts as one of my last Magi readies a spell against a golem, before enemy spearmen appear out of seemingly nowhere. In a final skirmish, I watch my guards be cut down around me. I, however, am taken alive.
After being marched back to the border fortress, I find my family, also captured, awaiting me. And as we enter Adabyss, we are marched through every town, paraded through every city, crowds hissing and hurling what I am sure are insults in tongues I do not understand. And the deeper into Adabyss we travel, the more I realize the truth. Against this majesty, this power, what hope did I have?
I was a fool.