Dead Forest

Dead Forest is an exclusive mission in True Story.

## Background

As the Undead arrive in the eastern part of the Elven Kingdom, the battle between the Demon Slaves and the Golden Guard is already in motion - and while in Salria the Demons and the Golden Guard had been at the stalemate, here the Golden Guard seems to be winning despite being completely surrounded, utterly crushing their main bulk of the demonic forces. Yet the orders are clear: Crush the Demon Slaves and secure this part of the forest in the name of their master.

## Opening

The Golden Guard stationed in Dead Forest has captured and killed a Dreadlord of Souleater Legion named Gashgarroth, thanks to Praxeus' help, who then asked Captain Sorganus for defending the area, before leaving for a diplomatic mission. Salana Woodhunter along with Mina Trueshot and three Ironfist Elites was "staged to" dispatched to assist Queen Renova, who was being attacked by the Ironfist, playing Salana and her obsession of elimination of traitors and minding the Elites that they weren't part of Ironfist anymore, inquired about what Sir Praxeus's mission was, but Sorganus just declined to answer. Mina asked Salana to return to the Elven Kingdom capitol.

Meanwhile, the Souleater Legion, busy purging all of Ebira's loyalists in their ranks, tried to hunt down one of so-called Ebira's "lackeys", a Demoness, in Darkblade Legion commanded by Count Hollowbane, but was forced to fall back after being threatened by the Count. He then commanded the Demoness to go back to Ebira, unwittingly revealed the reason the Demonic invasion was really.

And the former Queen Keera has returned to the Dead Forest along with Ornasion, planning to destroy the garrison for Aridon's plans. Ornasion shared the same sentiment the Undead Elven Queen had. He tasked her with rebuilding her "Kingdom" in the area, after they dealt with both the Demons and the Golden Guard.

## Quest

### Main Quest:

* Destroy the base of the Golden Guard (Yellow)

Description: Despite their unexpected competence, Aridon has ordered the Undead to destroy the Golden Guard and replace them as the guardians of this portion of the forest, clearing their own path to the western part of the kingdom for reasons yet unknown to the undead servants - but who are they to question the flawless will of their master?

### Side Quest:

* Destroy the base of the Souleater Legion (Green)
* Destroy the base of the Darkblade Legion (Orange)
* Destroy the base of the Demon Slaves (Peanut)

Description: To the Undead's surprise, the Golden Guard seems to not only be aware of the infiltration attempt of the Demon Slaves but have even been able to destroy their leader already. However there still remains a large portion of the slaves in the region - and Aridon has decreed that the Undead shall take care of them - once and for all. Ornasion would gladly utterly destroy them all - just as he vowed to do with their master when the time was right. Not to mention the amount of corpses it would provide him with...

Reward: +1 to all attributes for Ornasion and Keera

## The Battle

in this battle, Keera and Ornasion has new units, with Keera having Stalkers, and Ornasion having newly-raised Demon Seductress and Sorcerers, from Demon corpses they reanimated, while they had forces sent by the Rohir Nexus to supplement their force.

Their mission, to eliminate the Golden Guard base, and eliminate both the Demons and their Elven Slaves. The Demons in the area were established their presence on the several Demon Gates and Shrines, while the Slaves built their forces on the mines. Also, several Demonlords were hidden on the forest area, killing them will enable Ornasion to reanimate them as Deathlords.

At some point, the Golden Guard deploys their Honor and Glory Battalions to crush the Demon Slaves in the north and south, along with the construction corps to build their bases. It had to take the duo to eliminate the enemies to raise Keera's fallen followers and reanimated Elves and former Elven Demon thralls.

For every base destroyed, Keera received the aid of her ally, Keera's Vassals with 3 Crypts for (4 Crypts for each of Honor & Glory Battalion bases), which periodically sends Fallen Guardians, Dark Rangers, Glaive Throwers, Banshees and Skyhunters to attack the Golden Guard garrison. Keera built up defenses around the Crypts to defend it from counterattack.

The Golden Guard main base was heavily defended by soldiers under Captain Sorganus. the combined attack from the duo and relentless push of the vassals crushed the base.

## Aftermath

Ornasion returns to the Kezzar Nexus for bolstering the forces, while Queen Keera will remain in the Dead Forest to build the Daviliad Nexus, and welcome both Saphira Whisperwind and her retinue.