The Fairy Tale of the Hellbeast
Outside the impressive city of Angleeye, out by the river and in a small village, there lived a most peculiar little boy. Often ridiculed and laughed at, he did not want to play the simple games of children, but rather went away for long journeys into the forests and up in the hills; to be alone with his drawings and inventions.
At an early age he was inventing the strangest machinery - small trinkets that would shine without fire, machines that would lift heavy rocks that not even ten men could lift and even a balloon that could fly.This little boy grew up to be the laughing matter of the village, for his inventions were so strange.
When he was grown up at the age of twenty, the Viking warlord Nergar Brenn invaded the land with his army and made siege of the city of Angleeye. The king and all his soldiers withdrew inside the walls and the Viking could not break them although they besieged the city for two years. At that time, Nergar heard of the strange inventor.
Nergar approached the young inventor and told him that he would reward him richly if he invented such a machine of war that the walls of Angleeye were forced. "No, mylord", the young inventor replied. "My machines are for peace and progress. Not for war and siege."
The Viking was mightily angered by these words and replied: "Within four weeks you shall invent my machine and within four weeks it shall stand before the walls of Angleeye and force them! Otherwise I will kill your family, pillage your village and have your ears and hands cut off in front of your children!"
The inventor stayed at the Viking's warcamp and worked on his warmachine for four weeks. Every day the pile of material grew, every day he came closer to finishing the most terrible weapon in the history of the Known World. Nergar was pleased when he saw his machine being built. Nergar's soldiers laughed and spit on the ground before the inventor.
One day the inventor was done and told the Viking Lord that the machine had been completed. "Show us then what it can do!" Nergar shouted. "Break the walls of Angleeye and lead me in there. Then you shall have your freedom."
The inventor activated his machine while the Viking soldiers were watching and laughing. Smoke arose from the machine and a terrible sound was raised. In might, the beast rose up in the middle of the Viking camp, it turned, it saw, it prepared to do terrible battle. The Viking soldiers laughed no more when they saw the terrible beast, but stood in awe.
In a sudden the Machine lifted the inventor up on its shoulders and then he gave the order. The Machine did not turn against the city walls, but started going berserk within the Viking warcamp. The soldiers tried to stop it, but were stomped upon and killed. The Machine tore down their tents, destroyed their siege weapons, spit fire upon their baggage and killed a hundred Vikings.
The turn came to Nergar who hid in his tent. "Now, Nergar", shouted the inventor. "Now, I shall take you inside Angleeye." The Machine lifted the frightened Nergar up and threw him over the city walls into the city of Angleeye. Upon that, the Viking army scattered in fear. Some fled on their ships, others into the forests, but most of them were killed by the machine of war and the Angleeye guards.