As much as raising undead colossuses would be cool, you decide that taking over the Brot Kingdom will be easier and you'll be able to take out Trelik at the same time.

"I think I'll go with my plan of attacking the Brot Kingdom."
"You just want to be all macho and kill Trelik."
"Maybe…does it turn you on?"
"Ha ha. Perhaps if you're successful. Are you going to do this personally?"
"Of course, I don't think any of the other necromancers can take on Trelik by themselves, and I'd rather have you here looking after things."
"Really? You're trusting me to run Aftermath?"
"Yeah, now I want you to keep a good run of things here, and if the Grand Alliance attacks I want to know immediately, so I can get here!"
"Okay, but I doubt if that'll happen. I'd be more concerned with them attacking you when you're at the Brot Kingdom."
"I'll be fine, okay I'm off."
"Good luck!" she says and quickly kisses you on the cheek before you leave. You stare at her for a moment in shock and she stares back.

"What?" she asks as if nothing happened.
"Nothing, but we'll discuss THAT later when I return." You say.
"Maybe. If you're good and return victorious."
"I don't think I'll be good, but I will be returning victorious."



You decide to take a couple of extra necromancers with you for support as you march your undead horde towards the Brot Kingdom. By the time you get there you can see the destruction that Trelik has wrought. It's obvious where he's been. Some corpses linger around the razed towns he's obviously been through, but you immediately bring them under your control. It's apparent that Trelik hasn't focused on fortifying his holdings too much and he probably wasn't expecting you to arrive at all.

Given his weakened state, you wonder if you should bother attacking Trelik immediately. Perhaps you should take out the remaining Brot military just to get them out of the way first seeing as they might be more of a threat.

You attack the Brot military

You march your horde toward the heart of the Brot Kingdom where Trelik hasn't been yet. You find that it's a little better defended than you thought. They have mustered up all their remaining hero types to lend their hand to the defense.

It takes a week before you manage to even reduce the Brot Kingdom to shambles and knocking on their capital gates. This probably would've went quicker however, had Trelik not been launching his own attacks at your back and stealing some of your troops.

Another week passes and you finally complete your attack on the Brot Kingdom. You manage to drive off Trelik, but fail to kill him. You also end up having to fend off a Grand Alliance attack which further weakens you.

Your resources are stretched out and you've lost many of your necromancers to help support a large army. It's draining much of your energy just to maintain your defenses. You send a message to Catalina asking if there's anyway to get reinforcements, but she replies that doing so would be unwise as the Grand Alliance has sent another army on the way to Aftermath.

You decide to maintain a skeleton crew as it were in the Brot Kingdom and head back to Aftermath post haste. You arrive just in time to defend Aftermath, which you do successfully…barely. At this point you're running on empty and you have to rest to recharge yourself. All of this has been a greater ordeal than you thought and it's only going to get greater.

Four years pass
It's been five years since you took Aftermath, and you've made little progress. In fact you sense the end is near and you'll be happy about it because this has been a miserable time and you wonder what the hell you were thinking all those years ago when you pursued this path…

When Velzix was finally defeated, the Grand Alliance was able to focus the full brunt of its attention towards you, leaving you in a perpetual state of being on the defensive. Never again were able to attempt another act of conquest and over the years you eventually lost the Brot Kingdom.

Vampire assassins from the clans made multiple attempts on your life. You barely fought them off. The last attack left you horribly scarred; it was only due to Catalina's sacrifice that you survived. You'll miss her dedication to you and your time together which was the only good thing about any of this.

You recently received a letter from your family. It's been so long you'd almost forgotten you had one. It's your Mom. She begs for you to give yourself up as she doesn't want your sister to have to fight you in the next Grand Alliance attack, which apparently she's leading.

Good old Mom, she always did try to protect you from your sister. But not this time. You're going to carry this through to the end.

You finish up writing your letter back to Mom just as The Grand Alliance has broken down your gates. The cause of "good" has won. You wait for their final arrival in your throne room.

You see your sister approach with her elite guards, she says nothing. Just a look of scorn on her face says it all.

You stand up.

"Let's do it." You say and unleash a blast of negative energy and summon ghostly soldiers to defend you.

The fight is furious, but your sister has the cause of righteousness on her side. She eventually reaches you and stabs you through the heart. You look down and tell your sister one last thing.

"…letter…on the desk…take it to Mom…tell her…I'm sorry…"