War for the Dead (event)
The invader has been beaten back, their vast army reduced to corpses scattered throughout the jungle, still clinging to weapons the make of which we do not understand. Perhaps those corpses have joined the empire they died for, an empire which is also dead. But its ghost still lived in the form of the men who marched forth from its war-torn lands, who marched to the place where their ancestors had met their fate in hopes of finally earning vengeance, only to meet the same fate as those they fought for.
The Nāgóm Kakezihī itself, the fortress over which so much blood has now been shed, was the site of the warlord's last stand, with his elite troops joining him in holding its inner sanctum against overwhelming numbers for over a day before dying. Does he now see the echoes of all those who have died before on this ground? All of this death, and for what? For the honor of those who no longer live to claim it, for the ambition of one hoping to leverage the disaster for their own ends. This so-called 'Lelmand' brought this upon himself, and now bears the weight of these questions.
Let dead wars lie.