the lion and the rotting maiden

A large many limbed man sat upon a golden throne, several limbs moved and writhed upon his body as he sat in contemplation. before him stood several storm warriors ready for his orders. "Leyndell, my home and birthright, GATHER THE MEN WE MOVE NOW" he yelled out in glee as he got off the throne and rushed out followed by the soldiers. a week later and the capital, leyndell met hostile forces upon their docks, a rain of flaming arrows and the hail of catapults and ballista shattered the port defenses.

Hundreds of thousands of troops stormed it taking street after street, yet they met fierce defenses. dragons loyal to placidusax fought back alongside the golden knights of Leyndell. "HAHAHA CATAPULTS BRING THAT FLOATING ROCK, BRING IT DOWN BELOW MY KNEES" a crazed abomination of a lord said as he ripped off his own arms and attached new ones looted off of the corpses around him. the catapults obliged and thus hundreds of attacks hammered upon the floating city upon the heavens. as it crumbled and fell apart another lord came upon the scene. hundreds of golden warriors at his back throwing hundreds of lightning bolts towards the assaulting force.

"Willful traitor, but a runt, face death honorably" Morgott said as rage poured out of him in a golden wave. All around him golden weapons appeared as they struck down the crazed forces of Godrick. "HAHAHA MORGOTT, YOU HOLD A CROWN YOU DO NOT DESERVE; HAND ME IT AND I SHALL ALLOW YOU RUN, REFUSE AND I WILL CULL YET ANOTHER OMEN, ANOTHER DISGRACE UPON OUR LINEAGE" Godrick said as he brandished dozens of weapons alongside the new limbs upon his form.

Morgott did not speak further, he disappeared from his spot and struck forward with his curved sword meeting the dozens of weapons before him. flames licked at their forms as the city burned around them as they clashed. storm slashes met golden spears, physical might clashed against overwhelming faith. their clash was fierce and the fight between the two armies was even fiercer. hundreds of families were killed in the fight as the forces of Godrick raped and pillaged the golden city. hundreds of artifacts, weapons and armors of untold value where stolen and secreted out of the plateau as the home of the Erd tree burned below it.

a lucky slash cut off several limbs, an onslaught of golden rings cut off several more as the two warriors clashed revealing the stronger of the two. Morgott cut off each and every single limb once belonging to his men, his warriors. all until nothing but a frail old man remained laying upon the floor wheezing "mercy" he turned away and looked around with an enraged look as the city burned. The moment he turned back he saw that Godrick had disappeared, as to where he did not know. "Cut the rest down and secure the plateau, reward the families who lost their livelihood and wait for the revival of those who the Erd tree did not claim" he said before turning into motes of golden lights.

Where he stood a golden knight bowed and went onto do what his lord commanded. That night a wizened and weak old man escaped dressed as an old lady as he followed the refuges who escaped the burning plateau. The catapults continued to hammer away at the floating city as shards of it fell upon the lands between. pieces of the giant city fell towards Liurnia but in anticipation, task forces of mages struck them from the skies minimizing the damage upon the land, the other continents were not so lucky. pieces of the city crashed upon limgrave and Caelid.

Some pieces were stopped by their respective demigods as none seemed to reach gelmir nor anywhere near the Halig tree. Days passed in utter silence as the refugees slowly returned to their destroyed city hoping to rebuild. Two interesting guests arrived within the capital of liurnia. One riding upon a glint stone dragon. The other upon a blood red snake. The two women stared each other down as their respective elements were conjured around them.

"So are we going to act like children? Or will we go inside and have some tea Mhmm?" Queen Rennala said as she approached them. "As you say m-mother" the two said at the same time which sparked ire between the two again. "Oh my, another two who call me mother yet is not of my blood? Oh that boy" she said as she cupped her cheek in exasperation. "Another?" The two said at the same time starting to get annoyed with one another.

"Mhmm it's best if Leonel explains it, come, come we have much to discuss, oh I do wonder what we should do for the wedding" she mused to herself as she dragged Luna and Iris within the castle. Inside it a meeting was being held, military generals and spectral legion commanders gathered around a round table with leonel at its front. "Then move the second division to cover their flank, what of the albinauric?" He asked one of the generals.

Before that question could answered the door was opened by a guard. "My lord, the queen requests your presence within the tea room" he said before stepping out and closing the door. "Very well then, we will continue this at a later point, excuse me everyone" Leonel said before exiting and heading for the tea room. He felt, strange, something he had not felt in quite some time. Discomfort gnawed at him and the moment he opened the door his eyes widened and the door closed again before he turned around and tried to run.

Crimson tentacles mixed in with icy chains wrapped around his form stopping him from leaving as he resigned himself to his fate. The doors opened revealing two very ticked off women and his mother giggling away at his fate. "Running? Oh no my love you have much to explain" Iris said. "My love? Seems like you have been hard at work cheating on me Mhmm?" Luna said as her icy blue eyes narrowed.

"In truth we never got together Luna- aaaaa ooh the paiiin" he tried to act as if the chains hurt when they constricted his body but the body of a demigod is anything but weak. She sighed and let him go but the red tentacles did not and thus they dragged him onto Iris as she claimed his lips. "Oh I like her initiative… Ah I wonder if I'll be a grandmother soon" Rennala said as she gushed over the thought. Behind the two kissing lovers a battle of ice and blood was underway as ice chains attempted to take him back while blood tentacles fought them off.

He pulled himself off of Iris and shook his head. " you two really are like children, now, tell me how's thing's in caelid? I heard that my bro-" he was stopped by the sudden abrupt sound of an opening door. "Forgive me my lord but… the forces of the halig tree are en route to Caelid, we also have several reports of skirmishes coming from leyndell and mount gelmir, there's been a sudden surge in the mountain tops of the giants as well, we need your guidance my lord" the spectral guard said.

"Very well then, let's go, I'm sorry we will speak later" he said as he stood up and left the room but two sets of foot steps echoed behind him. He turned around to see both Iris and Luna at his heels. "As your future wife I must be by your side in order to best aid you" Luna said in utter confidence. "Oh you know you want me there with you ~darling~" Iris said as she leaned on him and quickly nibbled his ear before an ice chain pulled her away.

"Well then…. Tell Oleg to prepare another two seats, make that three as I'm sure Ana will be there even though she hates war" he said with a sigh, the spectral guard vanished soon after. Golden warriors draped in red and white cloaks marched upon the caelid wilds. Red maned warriors met them at the middle as they repelled yet another invasion upon their home but thanks to the first they had ample combat experience even though their numbers where lower.

On the grim plus they now had far more equipment thanks to their losses which they put to use effectively removing their foot soldier rank as everyone was well equipped to fend off foreign warriors. Still the demigoddess of rot was a vicious and deadly foe upon any battlefield. Someone who Radahn took very seriously as the words of Leonel still rang within his mind. Their final clash soon arrived as their forces bathed in each other's blood upon the great caelid dessert. Radahn stood before a beaten and bruised Malenia as she tried to put her prosthetic arm back on.

"You know, my brother put up far more of a fight than you did, and he also told me one very important thing, to be wary of you and your rot, leave girl and do not return to caelid lest you suffer my wrath again" he said as he turned around and left the beaten demigod who did not bloom as pre ordained. " my lady we must leave, forces of the spectral dragon have been sighted entering caelid, likely there to remove our presence from the cities which hold ties to Liurnia" knight Finlay said as he helped her stand.

She looked towards him and shook her head. "We left the halig tree in search of a great rune, we will not return without one, gather the troops, we head for castle stormveil" she said as she hobbled towards her sword. Finlay looked upon her with worry yet he nodded and headed towards the defeated clean rot knights.

A week later and news of the beheading of storm king Godrick rang out across the land's between for he had fallen to the rotting maiden Malenia. Upon his death Limgrave fell into a state of perpetual war as nobles raised armies and clashed with one another in hopes of coming out on top and ascending into the now rotted stormveil castle.

The battle over mount Gelmir still raged on as leyndell forces sought to deal a decisive blow towards the heretical praetor and his forces of monsters. While every demigod fought for dominance a battle was underway atop the halig tree as Mogh fought to capture Miquella yet he was aided by a now far stronger Malenia who held two tunes within her. The rot upon her disappeared slightly and her legs regrew back to what they once were yet she never reclaimed her missing arm.

Blow after blow landed upon Mogh until he was forced to retreat yet he did not leave without setting fire to the halig tree. Due to its infancy the bloody flame which gripped the juvenile tree quickly razed it to the ground leaving its inhabitants without a home and the week afterwards was simply known as the great migration as the warriors and inhabitants of the tree headed for the now only stable land of Liurnia.

The Bellum highway was their only ticket into their new promised lands yet what stood before them was a demigod and thousands of warriors alongside powerful defenses. "Tell me, you attack Caelid and then raze Limgrave leaving it in perpetual war, then you let Mogh set fire to your treehouse and then you have the gall to ask for refuge within my home? And what raze my kingdom too?" He asked as he stood atop the giant Glintstone walls looking down at the two demigods below him.

Miquella looked up at him with his golden eyes, "you know of the future, like me, do you not? Then you must know what what was done was simply for the greater good brother" he said. "Greater good huh? And at the cost of what? The thousands of families ripped apart during the chaos? Those who lost their minds due to the constant death? Valiant warriors now turned rabid dogs? SPEAK MIQUELLA AND TELL ME YOUR OH SO GRAND PLAN, THE REASON FOR SO MUCH BLOODSHED" Leonel yelled out in anger as the reports of dead innocents piled up during the wars.