Within the deep tunnels and mines of the undead nation something stirs, the legions of ghouls and golems of flesh are moving underground, mobilizing. Men in the border villages are being conscripted into the nations armies, yet the council remains silent, not relinquising any information to the citizens of the frozen land. Messanger ravens have been sent to Terel'Liren, Vos Valkear, and Osia. The message is the same for each, and is as follows.
"To the recipient of this letter, we request a diplomatic meeting in a location of your choosing. Know this, depending on the results of this meeting may shape your nation for the better, or into the ground as a cold shadow of what it used to be. The council hopes that you will agree to those meetings, for the sake of innocent lives. "
To all those who were not addressed by the letters diplomatic relations had either already been established, or the one writing the letters merely did not care about their fate.
"To the recipient of this letter, we request a diplomatic meeting in a location of your choosing. Know this, depending on the results of this meeting may shape your nation for the better, or into the ground as a cold shadow of what it used to be. The council hopes that you will agree to those meetings, for the sake of innocent lives. "
To all those who were not addressed by the letters diplomatic relations had either already been established, or the one writing the letters merely did not care about their fate.
Due to no responses being given to the hastily written letters sent out by the first Deathlord, the scourge has begun to mobilize underground. Ghouls have begun to flood out of the underground passages by the hundreds, massing into giant hordes of thousands and thousands of rotting undead creatures. They reek of corpses that have rotted for months while the majority of their flesh and bones were preserved by dark magic, which would presumably be because that is exactly what happened. The ghouls themselves, once assembled into giant battalions of 1000. Each battalion included the ghouls as foot soldiers, 250 abominations as the heavy infantry, 50 necromancers for raising new undead and making the necessary repairs to existing undead. Every battalion is also granted two flesh titans filled with blight worms. At the head of each battalion is a deathlord, acting as a commander of the forces until he was either slain or the battalion is taken over by a member of the lich council. If the deathlord is slain or otherwise removed the most powerful necromancer would take charge.
As the undead legions advanced to the edges of Ahn'Kahets territory the very ground they walked upon changed. The grass wilted and died, taking on a orange, diseased color. Trees warped and became twisted, pale reflection of themselves, small ooze-green patches growing along the bark and exposed roots. Creatures that the undead hordes passed by became rabid, portions of their flesh literally rotting away from exposure to blight. Any animals that were dead as the hordes passed by were resurrected by the necromancers to act as scouts and additions to their infantry. Bane spiders followed after the dead to feed off of the carrion left behind by the shambling forces, some of them even so bold as to walk among the ranks of the dead, knowing that the ghouls and abominations would not attack them.
The forces massed along the Eastern and Southern entrances to the nation, the north being blocked off by mountains which would make travel to the north impossible. For now, a total of 20 battalions are massing at the southern border, while a much larger force of 50 battalions are massing at the eastern border. Forces on reserve can be speculated at around 200 battalions to more, because more and more undead are being created daily in the underground tunnels.
As the undead legions advanced to the edges of Ahn'Kahets territory the very ground they walked upon changed. The grass wilted and died, taking on a orange, diseased color. Trees warped and became twisted, pale reflection of themselves, small ooze-green patches growing along the bark and exposed roots. Creatures that the undead hordes passed by became rabid, portions of their flesh literally rotting away from exposure to blight. Any animals that were dead as the hordes passed by were resurrected by the necromancers to act as scouts and additions to their infantry. Bane spiders followed after the dead to feed off of the carrion left behind by the shambling forces, some of them even so bold as to walk among the ranks of the dead, knowing that the ghouls and abominations would not attack them.
The forces massed along the Eastern and Southern entrances to the nation, the north being blocked off by mountains which would make travel to the north impossible. For now, a total of 20 battalions are massing at the southern border, while a much larger force of 50 battalions are massing at the eastern border. Forces on reserve can be speculated at around 200 battalions to more, because more and more undead are being created daily in the underground tunnels.