Update 21
...and it was during the very final years of the earth that the greatest atrocities were committed.
-Hyperborean schoolteacher, Year 25 AC
Slowly but surely, the massive forces of Khemri and the twisted Magi of Illyria pushed back the Urrians. Travelling north around the sources, the zombies stumbled upon the location of all the Indus Firelords casting the spell which had ignited the rivers. The magi were destroyed, and the burned rivers returned to normal.
Thus the entirety of the zombie horde stuck between the rivers was suddenly and unexpectedly unleashed upon the stalwart Urrian, Indus, and Vietnamese armies. In a tremendous battle, the living struck down the dead at a tremendous rate, but the sheer numbers of the horde completely overran them.
From the Indus front, zombies changed their course and began marching away from the Indus cities and set course for Ur. The last Urrian resistance was crushed. The few survivors fled back to the Indus. But they would not escape the undead for long.
While a few thousand zombies remained to mop up the last living resistance in Ur, the rest of the horde turned its sights on the Indus. The defenders incinerated every river that the undead had to cross, but they could simply travel through the sea or through the mountains to the north to get around. Although travelling through the sea was becoming rather dangerous.
The Hawaiians had crafted the ultimate method of defending themselves. With great difficulty, they had crafted a spell that would turn the waters of the ocean acidic, making travel by water difficult. As the acidity levels crept up over the years, difficult became impossible.
Worse still, the acid seas created a burning, acidic rain almost everywhere they went. People had to cower indoors, until eventually even the buildings melted. Fortunately, the acidity wouldn't get that severe until the very end of the earth.
The Songhai had developed their own plan for surviving these disasters. Building a huge addition to the flying platform that held their capital, they surreptitisously moved in all of the skilled workers and wise-men into the city and moved the poor and weak out.
Then completely surprising everyone (well, everyone who was left behind) the Flying City took off and abandoned the rest of the Songhai to its fate.
Meanwhile, the hordes of Khemri and Illyria were advancing on all fronts. An Illyrian invasion of Baltica was quite successful, although the losses were higher than was hoped, the dead were simply raised back by Khemri.
Travelling high through the Himalayas, the ever-growing Undead Horde was scattered when trying to get around the mountain barrier.
Part of the mighty force of death made it to the Indus, but more than half stumbled into the lands of the Mongols.
The Mongol defense, led by Temujin himself, was perhaps the greatest threat the zombies had yet faced. Ethereal Cavalry cut down zombies by the thousands, but even they would not be enough to stop the Horde. For undead liches and vampires could easily cancel out the magical existence of the Ethereal Cavalry with simple banishing spells.
But the Mongols still heroically stood their ground. Women, children, and elders all took up arms and fought- and fell- to the undead horde. Temujin himself, fought until, as poetic observers later said, 'the bodies piled up beyond the heavens', before falling himself. But their mighty stand paid off. Every last zombie that attacked them had fallen. The northern army of Khemri was the first major zombie group to be defeated. However, the Mongol military and economy was horribly weakened by the attack.
In Europe, only one nation fighting against the dead still stood. Gorin, which had been pretty much just minding its own business for the last few Millennia, was not going to go down without a vicious fight. At terrible cost to their own magi, the Gorin began throwing massive fireballs into Europe, creating massive destruction in the cities of the dead. But the undead were quick to retaliate. Liches learned that they couldn't dispel the fireballs, but they could deflect them. Waiting for their perfect chance, the Liches finally had a fireball fired straight at them. Combining their powers, they reflected the inferno- straight back at its exhausted (and often sacraficed) casters.
The fireball incinerated the vast majority of the islands of Gorin. With their defenses broken, all expected the undead to soon arrive. But they never did. The seas had grown acidic enough to melt a zombie within a matter of days. While this was celebrated, the greater possible consequences of the acid oceans occured to few.
The zombies who had traveled south into Indus lands were experiencing much more success than those attacking the northern Mongols. The Indus, whose army had been for all practical purposes destroyed, were totally overrun by the dead, once they had gotten past all of the molten rivers and killed the Firelords at their sources. Like the Urrians before them, the survivors retreated to make their last stands together. Setting aside old differences, every nation of the Orient gathered together to weather undead storm.
Every nation except, of course, the Vol'Kiss. They were going to do some storming of their own.
The Vol'Kiss were prepared to do anything to destroy the very earth the undead stood upon to stop them. They had to put in great efforts to even get to the Asian mainland by building new lands to walk on to, due to the deadly nature of the seas.
Once they arrived, the entire Vol'Kiss force attacked what they called a 'tectonic nexus' in Arabia. With a massive combined spell, they broke open the arabian continent. Lava spewed everywhere as whole pieces of the land began to sink into the mantle. Bringing many of the Vol'Kiss with them.
Shortly after the Vol'Kiss attack on the undead lands, the Elgovians and Hyperboreans made their move. Sending their magi deep under the Mediterranean protected by a powerful chaos shield, they blasted a hole deep into the earth beneath them and teleported warp portals carrying the waters of the sea into various areas around Khemri. They then fled what they had created, but it was so much more powerful than they expected that they were destroyed barely a fraction of a second after they had completed their spell.
All over Khemri lands, massive explosions ripped at the earth, as water superheated into steam deep under the surface and tried to escape. Added to earlier Vol'Kiss actions, these actions probably were the greatest factor of the destruction of the earth.
In Hyperborea, evacuations into the way were going on at a frenzied pace. When the Iroquois demanded that Hyperborea stay and fight alongside the undead, things nearly escalated to war. A few men madly loyal to their leader stayed behind to join up with the undead, but the rest of their people fled into the way.
The few remaining Iroquois were soon destroyed by the elder gods as they rampaged over the now-barren lands of Vendalia. Furious at the escaped Hyperboreans, they all left, swearing to eternally hunt their imprisoners, in whatever dimension they hid in.
The Illyrians, their cities collapsing from the tectonic turmoil beneath them, tried to raise the body of Bahamut to fight for them, but he was inaccessible under the deadly water.
In the far east, the final battle was approaching. The remenants of Ur, the Indus, Vietnam and Mongolia had gathered in the fortress of Karakorum, and the zombies were around them. Not that this bothered them anymore. There was nowhere else to flee to, as Vendalia was gone and the rest was ruled by the dead.
The zombies mounted the final great battle of the world. The entirety of the horde, many of them the perished former defenders, piled up on the walls. Only Indus pyromancy could throw them off, and the only remaining Pyromancer was Firelord Deependra himself. He incinerated thousands of zombies, but his strength failed from the titanic exertion. Every last defender of the walls of Karakorum fought to the death as the zombies poured in, many individual acts of heroism forever lost to history were commited. The last bastion of human strength on earth had fallen.
The Vol'Kiss had, like the Gorin, incinerated themselves in mighty spells rather than to fall to the hordes of the dead. The Immortal Kingdom, the Indus, the Vietnamese and the Urrians were all utterly wiped out by the hordes of Khemri. And the implacable Atlanteans, who had survived so much before, were wiped out simply by famine brought on by the acid rain, which had destroyed and melted every last edible thing. Only Hyperborea, Elgovia, the remains of Avalon, Songhai, and Hawaii remained. The Illyrians still survived, but they were dying out too from the acid-rain famine, becoming more and more combined with Khemri.
The Elgovians, Hyperboreans, Avalonians and Iroquois had completed their evacuation. The Lord in Green himself was the very last Hyperborean to leave the world.
"The battle for the earth was not lost this day, for it has always been lost as the forces of darkness and madness wax strong on this corrupt day. No this is not the losing of the earth, but the winning of the Multiverse, for the stars are right!"
These were the last words uttered in the Hyperborean tongue before the earth was abandoned by them. The year they finally left was hereafter refered to as 0 AC- After Cataclysm. Times before were referred to as BC.
Hawaii held strong as earthquakes shook the earth and the seas burned away at their lands. Only their complex counterspell to the acid seas saved them.
Far above the deadly clouds was the flying city of Timbuktu. As the clouds beneath began to return to their normal state, they finally decided to return down. Surveying the earth, they found hellish destruction. Lava still flowed over half of the earth. Acid-scoured bones covered the charred and poisoned landscape.
After long searching, the last Songhai found the only other survivors of the apocalyptic events. The Hawaiians. Only one island, Hawaii itself, remained inhabited and unscoured it was there that the Songhai joined them, with the mission of someday bringing life and humanity back to the world.
You know, I shouldn't have said 'only' other survivors.
For deep in a cave, in the ruins of Asia, two dark figures sit and wait, surrounded by the last of their zombies. Nagash and Seth Dethos, equal in their evil, both mighty in their power, wait for the time to return to the surface world...
...and it was during the very final years of the earth that the greatest atrocities were committed.
-Hyperborean schoolteacher, Year 25 AC
Slowly but surely, the massive forces of Khemri and the twisted Magi of Illyria pushed back the Urrians. Travelling north around the sources, the zombies stumbled upon the location of all the Indus Firelords casting the spell which had ignited the rivers. The magi were destroyed, and the burned rivers returned to normal.
Thus the entirety of the zombie horde stuck between the rivers was suddenly and unexpectedly unleashed upon the stalwart Urrian, Indus, and Vietnamese armies. In a tremendous battle, the living struck down the dead at a tremendous rate, but the sheer numbers of the horde completely overran them.
From the Indus front, zombies changed their course and began marching away from the Indus cities and set course for Ur. The last Urrian resistance was crushed. The few survivors fled back to the Indus. But they would not escape the undead for long.
While a few thousand zombies remained to mop up the last living resistance in Ur, the rest of the horde turned its sights on the Indus. The defenders incinerated every river that the undead had to cross, but they could simply travel through the sea or through the mountains to the north to get around. Although travelling through the sea was becoming rather dangerous.
The Hawaiians had crafted the ultimate method of defending themselves. With great difficulty, they had crafted a spell that would turn the waters of the ocean acidic, making travel by water difficult. As the acidity levels crept up over the years, difficult became impossible.
Worse still, the acid seas created a burning, acidic rain almost everywhere they went. People had to cower indoors, until eventually even the buildings melted. Fortunately, the acidity wouldn't get that severe until the very end of the earth.
The Songhai had developed their own plan for surviving these disasters. Building a huge addition to the flying platform that held their capital, they surreptitisously moved in all of the skilled workers and wise-men into the city and moved the poor and weak out.
Then completely surprising everyone (well, everyone who was left behind) the Flying City took off and abandoned the rest of the Songhai to its fate.
Meanwhile, the hordes of Khemri and Illyria were advancing on all fronts. An Illyrian invasion of Baltica was quite successful, although the losses were higher than was hoped, the dead were simply raised back by Khemri.
Travelling high through the Himalayas, the ever-growing Undead Horde was scattered when trying to get around the mountain barrier.
Part of the mighty force of death made it to the Indus, but more than half stumbled into the lands of the Mongols.
The Mongol defense, led by Temujin himself, was perhaps the greatest threat the zombies had yet faced. Ethereal Cavalry cut down zombies by the thousands, but even they would not be enough to stop the Horde. For undead liches and vampires could easily cancel out the magical existence of the Ethereal Cavalry with simple banishing spells.
But the Mongols still heroically stood their ground. Women, children, and elders all took up arms and fought- and fell- to the undead horde. Temujin himself, fought until, as poetic observers later said, 'the bodies piled up beyond the heavens', before falling himself. But their mighty stand paid off. Every last zombie that attacked them had fallen. The northern army of Khemri was the first major zombie group to be defeated. However, the Mongol military and economy was horribly weakened by the attack.
In Europe, only one nation fighting against the dead still stood. Gorin, which had been pretty much just minding its own business for the last few Millennia, was not going to go down without a vicious fight. At terrible cost to their own magi, the Gorin began throwing massive fireballs into Europe, creating massive destruction in the cities of the dead. But the undead were quick to retaliate. Liches learned that they couldn't dispel the fireballs, but they could deflect them. Waiting for their perfect chance, the Liches finally had a fireball fired straight at them. Combining their powers, they reflected the inferno- straight back at its exhausted (and often sacraficed) casters.
The fireball incinerated the vast majority of the islands of Gorin. With their defenses broken, all expected the undead to soon arrive. But they never did. The seas had grown acidic enough to melt a zombie within a matter of days. While this was celebrated, the greater possible consequences of the acid oceans occured to few.
The zombies who had traveled south into Indus lands were experiencing much more success than those attacking the northern Mongols. The Indus, whose army had been for all practical purposes destroyed, were totally overrun by the dead, once they had gotten past all of the molten rivers and killed the Firelords at their sources. Like the Urrians before them, the survivors retreated to make their last stands together. Setting aside old differences, every nation of the Orient gathered together to weather undead storm.
Every nation except, of course, the Vol'Kiss. They were going to do some storming of their own.
The Vol'Kiss were prepared to do anything to destroy the very earth the undead stood upon to stop them. They had to put in great efforts to even get to the Asian mainland by building new lands to walk on to, due to the deadly nature of the seas.
Once they arrived, the entire Vol'Kiss force attacked what they called a 'tectonic nexus' in Arabia. With a massive combined spell, they broke open the arabian continent. Lava spewed everywhere as whole pieces of the land began to sink into the mantle. Bringing many of the Vol'Kiss with them.
Shortly after the Vol'Kiss attack on the undead lands, the Elgovians and Hyperboreans made their move. Sending their magi deep under the Mediterranean protected by a powerful chaos shield, they blasted a hole deep into the earth beneath them and teleported warp portals carrying the waters of the sea into various areas around Khemri. They then fled what they had created, but it was so much more powerful than they expected that they were destroyed barely a fraction of a second after they had completed their spell.
All over Khemri lands, massive explosions ripped at the earth, as water superheated into steam deep under the surface and tried to escape. Added to earlier Vol'Kiss actions, these actions probably were the greatest factor of the destruction of the earth.
In Hyperborea, evacuations into the way were going on at a frenzied pace. When the Iroquois demanded that Hyperborea stay and fight alongside the undead, things nearly escalated to war. A few men madly loyal to their leader stayed behind to join up with the undead, but the rest of their people fled into the way.
The few remaining Iroquois were soon destroyed by the elder gods as they rampaged over the now-barren lands of Vendalia. Furious at the escaped Hyperboreans, they all left, swearing to eternally hunt their imprisoners, in whatever dimension they hid in.
The Illyrians, their cities collapsing from the tectonic turmoil beneath them, tried to raise the body of Bahamut to fight for them, but he was inaccessible under the deadly water.
In the far east, the final battle was approaching. The remenants of Ur, the Indus, Vietnam and Mongolia had gathered in the fortress of Karakorum, and the zombies were around them. Not that this bothered them anymore. There was nowhere else to flee to, as Vendalia was gone and the rest was ruled by the dead.
The zombies mounted the final great battle of the world. The entirety of the horde, many of them the perished former defenders, piled up on the walls. Only Indus pyromancy could throw them off, and the only remaining Pyromancer was Firelord Deependra himself. He incinerated thousands of zombies, but his strength failed from the titanic exertion. Every last defender of the walls of Karakorum fought to the death as the zombies poured in, many individual acts of heroism forever lost to history were commited. The last bastion of human strength on earth had fallen.
The Vol'Kiss had, like the Gorin, incinerated themselves in mighty spells rather than to fall to the hordes of the dead. The Immortal Kingdom, the Indus, the Vietnamese and the Urrians were all utterly wiped out by the hordes of Khemri. And the implacable Atlanteans, who had survived so much before, were wiped out simply by famine brought on by the acid rain, which had destroyed and melted every last edible thing. Only Hyperborea, Elgovia, the remains of Avalon, Songhai, and Hawaii remained. The Illyrians still survived, but they were dying out too from the acid-rain famine, becoming more and more combined with Khemri.
The Elgovians, Hyperboreans, Avalonians and Iroquois had completed their evacuation. The Lord in Green himself was the very last Hyperborean to leave the world.
"The battle for the earth was not lost this day, for it has always been lost as the forces of darkness and madness wax strong on this corrupt day. No this is not the losing of the earth, but the winning of the Multiverse, for the stars are right!"
These were the last words uttered in the Hyperborean tongue before the earth was abandoned by them. The year they finally left was hereafter refered to as 0 AC- After Cataclysm. Times before were referred to as BC.
Hawaii held strong as earthquakes shook the earth and the seas burned away at their lands. Only their complex counterspell to the acid seas saved them.
Far above the deadly clouds was the flying city of Timbuktu. As the clouds beneath began to return to their normal state, they finally decided to return down. Surveying the earth, they found hellish destruction. Lava still flowed over half of the earth. Acid-scoured bones covered the charred and poisoned landscape.
After long searching, the last Songhai found the only other survivors of the apocalyptic events. The Hawaiians. Only one island, Hawaii itself, remained inhabited and unscoured it was there that the Songhai joined them, with the mission of someday bringing life and humanity back to the world.
You know, I shouldn't have said 'only' other survivors.
For deep in a cave, in the ruins of Asia, two dark figures sit and wait, surrounded by the last of their zombies. Nagash and Seth Dethos, equal in their evil, both mighty in their power, wait for the time to return to the surface world...
I survived! Let me and jalapeno_dude share the award "Survivor"! 
![[party]](/images/smilies/partytime.gif "Party [party]")
I refuse to rescind my claim.
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