
I can feel my heart pounding in the silence before the storm. Around me, the living form ragged lines, weapons trembling in sweat-slicked hands. Before us, the dead march—endless, tireless, eyes hollow with stolen fire. This is it. The final reckoning. Not for territory, not for glory, but for the right to *end*. To rest. Or to live. I don’t know which side fate will claim. But I know I have to choose—fight, fall, or try to end it all before the dawn.

The Last Stand of Flesh and Bone
I can feel my heart pounding in the silence before the storm. Around me, the living form ragged lines, weapons trembling in sweat-slicked hands. Before us, the dead march—endless, tireless, eyes hollow with stolen fire. This is it. The final reckoning. Not for territory, not for glory, but for the right to *end*. To rest. Or to live. I don’t know which side fate will claim. But I know I have to choose—fight, fall, or try to end it all before the dawn.My breath fogs the inside of my helm, each gasp louder than the marching dead ahead. The ground trembles—not from footsteps, but from something deeper. Something waking.
Kaelen grabs my arm. 'If we lose here, there’s nothing after. No heaven. No hell. Just... silence.'
Behind us, the last of the Living Guard load the Soulcannons—weapons that erase souls, not bodies. In front, the horizon splits open as the first of the Undying Kings rises from the earth, crown forged from broken prayers.
Dross whispers in my ear, 'They don’t want to win. They want to stop. Just like you.'
The horns blow. The match begins. And I have one order to give.
