Gate of Memoirs/The Second Vale War

Peace is a lie, there is only survival.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Battle Spirit"	Music: "Battle Spirit"
 	
*Zeruiah: ... ...
 	
*Zeruiah picks her way through the fallen bodies, coming to a stop before another wave of encroaching soldiers.
*At the sight of the Great Sage herself, they begin to throw worried looks toward the backlines.
*A figure makes its way to the front, his hand lit by the persistent blaze of a small flame.
*His uniform sets him apart from the rest, and a carved eye emblem hangs from one side of his waist.
 	
*Zeruiah: So, your leader has the gall to order an assault on the Vale, but none to challenge me.
 	
*Wolf's Eye: Great Sage, none can face you in single combat. 
*Wolf's Eye: Surely you know this.
 	
*Zeruiah: And you will stand here to parley with me in his place while the Vale burns?
*Zeruiah: I demand to know what has transpired to come to this.
 	
*Zeruiah: Speak!
 	
*The soldiers behind Baelfyr's elite guard shuffle, intimidated by the awesome presence of this ancient deity.
*The Wolf's Eye holds up one gauntleted hand, and laughs.
*Wolf's Eye: You *attacked* our Lord Baelfyr without provocation! 
*Wolf's Eye: Great Sage, what has he done to offend you?
 	
*Zeruiah: Perhaps you should ask your "lord" what he has done to an innocent dryad.
 	
*Wolf's Eye: Come now! Have you really forgotten about the taint of Void in these lands?
*Wolf's Eye: We tore out the root of corruption during those dark days of war, but it seems that wasn't enough.
*Wolf's Eye: This we all know.
*Empire Soldier: Sir Baelfyr's grievous wounds...black and charred!
*Empire Footman: What horrors the darkness brings!
*Wolf's Eye: Could it be that...the Sage herself had known all this?
*Wolf's Eye: That such corruption can only be left to malinger in the body?
*There is a distinctive buzz of fear as the soldiers grip their weapons tighter.
 	
*Zeruiah: If you are so inclined to push your own twisted truths, human...
*Zeruiah: Then we will only speak the language of war.
 	
*With a downward plunge of her glaive, a phantom energy issues forth, and the enormous trees of the Vale come to life.
*The rocky ground begins to coalesce into great golems,
*as the wellsprings hidden underground gush forth into beastly shapes.
 	
*Zeruiah: Protectors of the Vale, I call upon thee once more.
*Zeruiah: Now, it is they who have desecrated the gift of life.
*Zeruiah: See the fires they wield! The very same we respect and fear!
 	
*Zeruiah: Humans...
*Zeruiah: You are no different from the Voidborn I gave you the power to slay.
*Zeruiah: There is no excuse for your thirst for blood.
*Zeruiah: By Sky Father and Earth Mother shall you be punished!
 	
*As the protectors surge forward to crush the human forces,
*Zeruiah retrieves her weapon and readies it against the Wolf's Eye, who has remained calm throughout this occurrence.
*Those behind him had already scattered, their courage and conviction failing them.
 	
*Zeruiah: Tell me, human.
*Zeruiah: Where. Is. He?